Books for Children and Young Readers Highlight Christmas Tide
A review lists Helen's Victory and Etta with praise for illustrations and moral themes. City Sparrows and Who Cared for Them by Ruth Lynn is praised as a humane gift-book urging charity. Wonderful Works of Christ Volume II explains parables for children and Out and All Abow by H A Page offers moral fables with charming art.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Helen
Fritz
Etta
Ruth Lynn
H. A.page
Page
The Late Mr James Sidebottom
Obituary tribute to James Sidebottom of Kershaw Sidebottom and Co a Liberal and Nonconformist benefactor. He rose from warehousing to partnership on the Manchester Exchange and supported religious educational and philanthropic causes until paralysis fatal at seventy. He lived a diligent honest life and was mourned by societies and the Congregational Chapel in Cavendish Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Sidebottom
Kershaw, Sidebottom, and Co
Sidebottom
Free-trade
Corn Exchange
Liberal Party
Anticorn Law League
Messrs. Leese and Kershaw
Manchester Exchange
Kershaw
M.P
Cavendish Street
Death of prominent Nonconformist leader Mr Sidebottom
Mr Sidebottom, longtime Nottingham College director and Lancashire Independent College director, was a key promoter of the Liberation Society and Manchester Nonconformist Association. He chaired the London Missionary Society meeting in Exeter Hall. His funeral in Harpurhey Cemetery was led by Rev A J Bray with a eulogistic address by Dr Halley. About thirty carriages accompanied the cortege.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sidebottom
M‘all
Halley
Parker
Nottingham College For the Education of Evangelists
Cavendish Chapel
Lancashire Independent College
Liberation Society
Manchester Nonconformist Association
London Missionary Society
Exeter Hall
Harpurhey Cemetery
A. J. Bray
Sideottom
Gas and Water Debenture Company formed for investors
The Gas and Water Debenture Company Limited is formed to apply the combination principle to utilities mirroring the Railway Debenture Trust. Detailed investor data, director list, and project particulars appear in a separate column. Also notes on coal market trends and railway safety measures stress evolving prices and infrastructure needs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gas and Water Debenture Company (Limited
Railway Debenture Trust Company (Limited
Goop
House Xervers
Iron and Coal Trades’ Review
Board of Trade
the Railways
Chichester Fortescue
Lancashire and Cheshire International Arbitration Association
Bishop of
Manchester
Vaughan
Resolution on public opinion and West Africa policy
The article reports a resolution praising public opinion work by the association to promote peaceful dispute settlement through courts. Hugh Mason backed the measure noting West Africa disputes and a talk with Bishop Crowther, urging withdrawal of British forces to let traders operate with natives without arms. Office-bearers for the year were appointed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hugh Mason
Africa
Bishop Crowther
Belhaven Bay Seacoast Report Sparks Sea Serpent Fever
A Scotsman dupe recounts a long black creature in Belhaven Bay, seen near shore with head and undulating body, stretching maybe a hundred feet. Observers compare it to a plesiosaur, noting smooth sea, frequent submersions, and a possible near relation to Dr Joass’s creature.
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Kolische Zeitung
Germany
Paris
New Orleans
New York Tribune
Kensington
London School Board
Arthur Arnold
Arthur
Belhaven Bay
Joass
Plesiosaurus
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MR. James Sidebottom
The
Manchester Examiner
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