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Newspaper
Lloyds Weekly News
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Dec 20, 1903
Page
10
Instructions for protecting crops and landscape beds during severe frosts. Cover mounds to shield hearts, bank sides, and mulch tops. Store parsnips and other crops, avoid packing tubers against walls, and thaw frozen vegetables before cooking. Preserve root health in plant houses with careful watering and ventilation.
Various reader questions on plant care and propagation are addressed. Topics include proper compost for Inna Rusper Plant, drying ground affecting Mary Lovisz Prear's tree, how to handle a tall dablia with late blooms, asparagus or aspidistra watering advice, chrysanthemum bloom color notes, seedless grape pruning tips, and artificial manure guidance for March applications and June soil mixing.
Advertises host Easterly nursery goods and a vast array of forest trees fruit trees shrubs roses bulbs and hardy greenhouse plants with low estimates per return catalogue. Includes Myrobalan plum hedging varieties Ovulifulium Privet and several bulb listings with prices and carriage paid offers for orders. Also features Christmas presents and various nurseryman names Winchfield Hants Lowestoft and Romford with catalogues free and carriage paid wording.
Dr Andrew Wilson argues that health underpins happiness and duty. He urges New Year resolutions to reform eating and drinking, promote temperance, and slow gradual habit change. He calls for school health education, better pulpit and press involvement, and a national conscience for bodily well being.
Abstracted from a brief poetic pledge urging renewal of body and mind for happiness. The sentiment emphasizes personal preparation and universal well being as a panacea for joy in theNew Year.
Lord James of Hereford sent his award on miners wages to joint secretaries. The resolution calls for a 5 percent wage cut by removing two 5 percent advances from January 1900 and October 1900. Lord James votes yes on the January cut and no on the October cut, resulting in a 5 percent overall wage reduction.
At Tulsehill on Tuesday the Mayor of Lambeth presided as the meeting resolved to try to purchase six and a half acres of fields north of Brockwell park to stop land being built on. Islington Borough Council was asked to help fund Wylde's farm extension of Hampstead heath 48001. The Works Committee replied the case does not strongly appeal to Islington inhabitants who must consider nearer open spaces.
Lord Monkswell chaired the London County Council weekly meeting at Spring Gardens. The death of chief clerk H W Barratt was announced with condolences. Council approved the Edwardes square Protection Bill 1504 and a by law banning obstructive highway vehicle views. Thames River Steamboat Service Bill 194 approved with capital expenditure of 2800001. Administration of the Midwives Act decided. Special meeting on street widening and tramway electrification discussed with Lambeth funding condition. Next council election set for March 6.
Alecis Stuart a Kilburn palmist faced three adjourned summaries at Marylebone police court for pretending to tell fortunes by palmistry. The magistrate dismissed the summons on technical grounds warning of harsher action if he repeats the offense. other summonses were withdrawn.
Alfred Toms and four joiners and plumbers were charged at Guildhall for stealing over 10 tons of copper cable and related goods from Charing Cross and City Electric Supply. Detectives had monitored the shop before a raid recovered cable, flags, bunting, books and cases. Toms received six months hard labour. McConkie Brown Kerr Lang six weeks. Ezra one month.
Lord Reay chaired the London School Board meeting at Victoria Embankment offices with Lord Stanley of Alderley present. The board asked the London County Council to insert 600000l in the 1903 Money Bill for the year ending March 31 1904, having borrowed 400000l so far. A further borrowing of up to 200000l was approved. Letters from local teacher associations criticized holding of exhibitions. The board adjourned for Christmas holidays to Jan 21.
An inquest into the death of Morris Solomon, 29, a licensed victualler’s manager, heard he had been consumptive for years and told his case hopeless at Brompton Hospital. Captain Mark Golinsky claimed to cure consumption and argued the deceased died from other causes, but the jury returned a verdict of death from consumption.
Government ordnance factories approve an annual reward fund to be shared by arsenal staff for superior suggestions to cut costs and improve manufacture. Employees at Sparkbrook Birmingham Enfield Waltham Abbey and Weedon join 18,000 Woolwich Arsenal in the scheme. Also a brief, odd item reads Wanted a wife and multiple wives across the world, a garbled note likely from a different column.
Mary Grantham an 18 year old general servant of New Kent Road was charged at Lambeth police court with stealing 31 13s 6d and other items belonging to Lucy Elton from Herne Hill schoolhouse between January 3 and January 15. She confessed to planning to go on the stage and the money was recovered from an agent. She was remanded until Wednesday.
In the Chancery Division Justice Byrne dismissed an objection and gave judgment for the plaintiffs Burroughes Wellcome and Co chemists London against Manchester and others to restrain passing off tabloids. Damages 40s awarded instead of inquiry into damages. A separate report notes Hullsands erosion and an inquest at Greenwich about Elizabeth Barry, identified as a man, with death from bronchitis and alcoholism.
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