Christmas volumes and illustrated travel tales praised in journal
The piece reviews a large travel volume with over a hundred illustrations of Cordilleran scenery, praising its fullness and vivid wood-cuts. It notes Christmas offerings Good Cheer and Only Once a Year, contrasting their tones. comments on stories, ghosts, humour, and a poem by Mr. Purves titled City Petitions with two stanzas quoted.
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Cordilleras
Henry Mayhew
Misa Catherine Saunders
Gideon's Rock
Baring-Gould
Suxley
Jack Doubleday
Abel Craike
Mr. Purves
Titée
Accidents on Irish Mail Cause Loss and Injury
Two Irish Mail accidents within 24 hours caused multiple deaths and serious injuries. The up train derailed near Watford due to shunted cattle wagons, damaging the mail engine and halting traffic. Later, at Harrow, a following express narrowly avoided disaster, seven killed on the scene and several injured as two locomotives dragged the heavy mail into wrecked carriages amid foggy signals.
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Irish Mail
Watford Tunnel
Euston Square
Willesden Junction
Harrow
Diplock
Euston
Hat of the future chosen from Berlin makers
Germany’s fashion ruling body gathered eighty top hat makers to select a future style. Fourteen models were shown, a ten expert jury picked three from Berlin workshops, and one design was finally chosen as the hat of the future.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Germany
Berlin
Newport Expection and Norwich Elections Report
Election results show Mr. Clifford leading Liberal supporters with 437 votes to Kennard 361. majority 86. Reports cover Norwich election petition, trade figures, and notices on gas works, art commissions, and the Sonar eclipse expedition plans.
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Newport
Clifford
King William-street
H.C
Monument
Norwich
Court of Common Pleas
Hursday
Tillett
H. Stracey
Baron Martin
Justice Byles
Board of Trane
Russia
London notices and scholarly plans across readings and publications
Reading listings show Mr. Martin F. Tupper to give readings from his works at St. James's Stall Dr. Guthrie to publish London charity inquiries in the Sunday Magazine Mr Mill to expound treaty obligations in the Fortnightly Review A Lancaster case notes horseflesh in sausage meat London markets A Liverpool to London train carries seventy four tons Mexican dollars A Youell reception in Yarmouth praised President Wallace ready with An answer to Miracles Buckle works edited by Helen Taylor Buckle notes in three volumes Washburn Paraguay history in press Mint to be built in Whitefriars near Temple and City embankment
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Martin F. Tupper
St. James’s Stall
Guthrie
Sunday Magazine
Charities of
London
Mill
Lancaster
Liverpool
E. P. Youell
Yarmouth
Alfred R. Wallace
Entomological Society
Notices require half-a-crown postage for submissions
The notice states that all announcements for the colonut must be accompanied by postage stamps worth half-a-crown. It specifies a mandatory payment method to accompany submissions.
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Colonut
Obituary Notices from Birmingham and Kettering
Births marriages and deaths announce the death of the Rev Professor Barker at seventy one in Stratford road Birmingham. Elizabeth Toller widow of the late Rev Thomas Northcote Toller dies at Kettering in her ninety second year.
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Barker
Stratford Road
Birmingham
Professor Barker
Springhill College
Toller
Kettering
Elizabeth
Thomas Northcote Toller
Bank of England Gazette Shows Week Ending November 23 1880
The weekly account lists issued notes at 36,344,270 pounds with government debt of 11,015,100 and other securities 3,984,900. Gold coin and bullion total 21,370,236. Banking department shows proprietors' capital 814,553,000, government securities and other deposits totaling 43,115,767 pounds. Chief Cashier: Gro. Forbes.
Holloway's Pills and Ointment for Blood Purification
The advertisement proclaims holloway pills cleanse the blood to ward off chest diseases stomach complaints and liver disorders. It claims remedies suit chronic invalids nervous sufferers and those failing other treatments and invites trial of Holloway's celebrated medicine.
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Holloway
Markets. English wheat eases as imports rise
The show of English wheat was small this morning, with liberal arrivals from abroad and a slow trade. English wheat fell since this day week, influenced by foreign wheat, especially American varieties. Flour prices for walls and sacks dipped. peas and beans held steady. barley and Indian corn stayed near prior levels.
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Tellier
Croton
Dieppe
Nature
Spain
Cadiz
J. S. Perry
Gibraltar
Noble
Lockyer
Huggins
Oran
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Uukmn Exchange
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