Natured Wit and Spelling Contests Highlight Gleanings
A collection of witty excerpts and anecdotes features Talleyrand and Barras on mankind, Sydney Smith on women versus men, a Dublin beggar’s soup joke, a character certificate gone comical, a bankrupt upper ten story, a Warwickshire servant ad with odd conditions, and a Kent spelling contest winning by a solitary lady after three hundred fifty words with tough terms tested by judges including Dr Wilks and Rev Dixon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Talleyrand
Barras
Iig
Sydney Smith
Heaven
Earth
Africa
America
Avoura
Scipio
Perth
Court Journal
Warwickshire
Spe Iine Bros
Ashford
Kent
R. Furley
Weald
Wilks
Duke of Edinburgh
F. Dixon
I. Smurthwaite
Births Marriages and Deaths Notice from Canonbury and Croydon
Births Worsley Benison Stewart. Marriages Ditcham Gamble Arnold Turney Chown Gamble Hobbs Gerring. Deaths Pidduck Tarring Lewin Roberts. List of names with locations and dates in 1875 1876 notices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Worsley-Benison
Gordon Villa
Grange-road
Canonbury
H. W
Worsley Benison
Stewart
Glendevon
Canning Road
Croydon
Ebenezer Stewart
Ditcham—Gamble
Upper Clapton Congregational Church
George Alexander Ditcham
Paris
G. P. Ditcham
Mannamead
Upper Clapton
Florence
H. J. Gamble
Arnold—Turney
Brockley-road
J. T. Wigner
Charles Fearnley Arnold
Cold Harbour-lane
Camberwell
Jessie
George Leonard Turney
the Grove
Chown—Gamble
Victoria-street Chapel
Derby
W. M. Crosbie
Joseph W. Chown
Bradford
J. P. Chown
Bloomsbury Chapel
London
Annie Maria
Minnie
Charles Gamble
Stanwick Villa
Hobbs—Gerring
Congregational
Farringdon
T. C. Udall
J. N. Hobbs
Peckham
T. Hobbs
West House Farm
Hardwick
Gloucestershire
Mary
Oliver Gerring
Badbury Hill Farm
Berks
Pidduck
Sarah Pidduck
T. Pidduck
Hanley
Tarring
S. Audries
Torquay
John Tarring
Alb
A. Lewin
Ilfracombe
North Devon
Samuel Lewin
Roberts
Azenby Square
Susan Elizabeth Roberts
T. Roberts
Epps’s Cocoa A GRA TEFUL AND ComfoRTING Health Claims
An advertisement style excerpt extols cocoa as a digestible, nourishing beverage aiding health and disease resistance. It promotes Holloway’s Pills, Slade’s Anti Asthmatic Cigarettes, and Allen’s Worth’s Hair Restore as remedies and health aids with claims of improved digestion, sleep, and hair restoration. Names include Holloway, Slade, Brompton Hospital, Victoria Park Hospitals, and Allen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Epps
Civil Service Gazette
Treloar and Sons
Ludgate-hill
Houlloway
Holloway
Slade
Brompton
Victoria Park
United Kingdom
Thomas Slade
Long-acre
London
A. Allen
Ts. Depot
Southampton-row
Dyeing Small Fabrics Quickly at Home
Dyzine at Homr.-Jupson's Dyes prove most useful and effective for coloring ribbons silk feathers scarfs lace braid veils handkerchiefs and small dress articles in minutes without staining hands Violet magenta crimson mauve purple pink ponceau claret and more sold for sixpence per bottle by chemists and stationers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Homr
Jupson
Also Mentioned on This Page
Fiorniman
HomNimMan
Bennett
Cheapside
John Bennett
Cowell
Hall Farm
Ashby
Lowestoft
Montague Villa
Salisbury
Taylor and Reeves, Sawbridgeworth
Birkbeck Building Society
Birxbeck BurLpine@ Society
Southampton Buildings
Chancery-lane
Birkbeck Freehold Wand Society
Brrksrck Bank
Francis Ravenscroft
British Guardian Life, Banking and Building Assurance Company (Limited
Garrick Street
W.C
Estraurrsuep
Hecmiusss
White Lily Polihen
Ene
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