Butchers Consider Tinned Meat To Ease Shortage
The article argues colonial meat may lower prices and ease scarcity as butchers in Newcastle experiment with retailing tinned Australian beef and mutton. It notes consumer prejudice fading and predicts widespread shortages unless ample meat, fresh or preserved, is sourced at home or abroad to avoid famine prices and hunger.
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London
Newcastle
Preston election debate and Ruskin memorial in London letters
The Times extract discusses Preston election dynamics with Liberal disillusion and religious politics, criticizing Holker’s stance while noting pressure from various factions. It also shifts to London springs near Croydon and Ewell, praising natural fountains and Ruskin’s plan to restore a pond near Carshalton as a memorial to his memory.
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Times
Preston
Corn Exchange
Liberal
Liberal Party
Gladstone
Goschen
Bruce
Tichborne
House of Commons
Holker
Q.C
Miall
England
Ewell
Chalk Downs
Carshalton
Croydon
Wandle
Ruskin
Mr. Ruskin
Men and Things in America By a Cosmopolitan
A Cosmopolitan observes the 1868 presidential race with New York and Pennsylvania pivotal. Grant leads in the South and West, while North doubts persist. Corruption allegations touch Settle and Doolittle, with reform Democrats meeting in Louisville backing Charles O Conor, who could blunt Greeley’s appeal and boost Grant. Commerce fears Greeley as a reckless candidate. A T Stewart calls a Greeley win a national calamity.
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New York
Pennsylvania
Grant Party
Greeleyites
Grant
West
America
Settle
Philadelphia
North Carolina
Doolittle
de Tocqueville
Greeley
Louisville
Wise
Virginia
Charles O’conor
O’conor
C. F. Adams
Adams
General Grant
Commerce
Wall Street
A. T. Stewart