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Newspaper

Nonconformist

Location

London, Middlesex, United Kingdom

Date

Sep 25, 1872

Page

5

Voices on Labour Self Rule and Land Reform in Wiltshire

A preacher exhorts agricultural workers to seek social ascent through self help, warns of strikes, and urges landlords to remove hindrances like land laws. He envisions union, independence, and female uplift as keys to national prosperity amid rural unrest across Dorset and Notts areas.

Wilton Pembroke Earl of Pembroke Wiltshire England Dorchester Smith Amalgamated Engineers of London Dorset Newark Notts Robinson Josephine Butler George Potter Beesley Mitchell P. A. Taylor M.P Miall Uts Ames Fraser Manchester Suffolk Essex Sussex Gloucester Qote Social Science Congress Plymouth

A Speech on Dignity and Union For Labourers

The speaker urged self respect for the poor and their daughters and condemned poverty as a hindrance to virtue. He warned of exploitation by wealth and called for immediate steps to improve agricultural and unskilled laborers, endorsing unionism and opposing restrictive laws.

Licensing Act debates and changes across London and regions

Clerkenwell magistrate dismissed summonses against two Highgate hill publicans and customers as travellers. Martin Owen punished for drunk and disorderly behavior in Ossulston street. Sheffield licensing protests refused. Bath set hours six to eleven weekdays and noon to two thirty early close. Liverpool mills gauge worker opinion on extended hours. Birmingham audit shows resistance to extension at Hind and Son lamp works. Oxford closes at eleven weekdays ten Sundays amid riots. Metropolitan Police grants late licenses near Strand theatres for theatergoers and audiences, with possible regional spread to other venues.

Clerkenwell Highgate Hill London Martin Owen Bath Liverpool Birmingham Messrs Hind and Son Oxford Colonel Henderson Metropolitan Police Strand

London School Board Reassembles After Vacation

The London School Board met with Lord Lawrence presiding. proceedings were routine. Greenwich District Board of Works resolved not to pay a £1,526 precept from the London Echo Board in protest of alleged excess. Westminster and Worship Street magistrates heard several school board prosecutions but none enforced, adjournments common as parents were notified.

London ScHool Board Lord Lawrence Greenwich District Board of Works London Echo Board Westminster and Worship-street
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