Election turmoil in Boston Lincolnshire shows Pelham victory
Boston reports a heated Liberal contest as Captain Pelham leads against Mr. Wire amid accusations of bribery and family influence. Polls rise to Pelham 422 to Wire 321 with a 101 vote margin after tense shows of hands and public meetings.
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Boston
Freshfield
Captain Pelham
W. Garritt
W. Rawson
G. Snaith
D. W. Wire
Slater
Lincoln
Lincolnshire
Pelham
Wire
Mr. Wire
Capt. Pelham
Miraculous Tyne Bridge Escape From Certain Death
John Smith a Newcastle shipwright narrowly escaped a 120 foot fall from the High Level Bridge as a loose plank shifted. A stray nail pinned his trousers and halted his descent, with Edward Ward and others providing aid. Smith credited divine intervention for his rescue.
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Marvetto Wus
Dzatu
Tyne
John Smith
Newcastle
Hawks, Crawshay, & Sons
Edward Ward
Cummings
Firbank
Smith
Ward
Shipwright
Gateshead
Early Closing Movement Urges National Reform in 1849 Letter
A 1849 correspondence from Joan LitwArt, secretary of the Metropolitan Early Closing Association, argues protracted labor harms workers and society. It urges a national, coordinated campaign, backed by employers and clergy, to extend early closing measures and improve health and morale while maintaining business activity.
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Grainger
St. Thomas’s Hospital
Hopkins
Draper
Shoreditch
Hugh M‘neill
Board of Management
London Society
Metropolitan Early Closing Association
Joan LitwArt
Ludgate Hill
American deputies to Paris voyage via Liverpool breakfast plan
United States deputies are due in Liverpool by the next packet and may be invited to a Manchester breakfast before traveling to Paris. Mr Prentice of the Manchester Times is rumored as a peace advocates' deputy.
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Pesce
Paris
United States of America
Liverpool
Manchester
Paria
Prentice
Manchester Times
Friends of Peace
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Bowyer
T. Salmon
H. Letchworth
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John Hone
Sir John Hare
Gardner
Carroll
Thomas Norton
Exall
Norton
Ile
Thomas Clark
West Surrey
Williams
Coventry
Briscow
Kipperminster
D. Ward
Lord Ward
W. H. Cook
Oxford
Samson Ricardo
J. A. Taylor
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