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Newspaper
Peak Hill Express
Location
Peak Hill, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Dec 01, 1905
Page
17
A coverage of the first international congress on education and household management of infancy opening in Liege. It notes female delegates, calls for scientific infant study, outlines four congress sections, and reports a fire drill incident with firefighters treated in hospital.
In London last month a chloride of sulfur spill at Messrs Typhe and King caused instant choking fumes that overwhelmed upper floor workers. Eight firemen assisted evacuees as smoke filled the building and onlookers feared a fire. Rescue efforts succeeded in getting several people out.
The City of London police force spent L175 008 for protection of its area last year led by salaries of L110 343. Clothing and gear cost L4 409 while repairs ran higher. Rent for chief offices and stations totaled L20 000. Receipts included L108 784 rate income and L39 871 from City Corporation. The year 1904 ended with a balance of L409.
In a rough East End room a family mass produces match boxes while women sew blouses for low pay. They endure long hours and meager earnings, with twopence an hour common for the poorest work. Native workers, not aliens, dominate these harsh trades as fur sewers toil under grim conditions.
A. M. Bannister reports on harsh London sweating practices with earnings as low as two shillings and three pence for forty eight items. Workers receive minimal pay for pieces such as ETO8s and bodice and skirt hands despite long hours.
Paris based Daily Mail reports two women in Beaullen near Loches held about a dozen gendarmes at bay for 24 hours. The mother of four resisted magistrates with a pitchfork and blunderbuss while crowds watched as police eventually forced the house and detained the family members.
Rain in the Face, last of the great Sioux chiefs who fought U S forces, dies in the Indian Reservation of South Dakota at sixty two. He led the massacre of General Custer, wore a U S government uniform later, and was known for seven wives and suspected murder of his first wife.
A funeral held last month in Elkstone churchyard near Cheltenham sparked nationwide interest. The event closed a chapter in one of the village’s most unusual romances, drawing attention across the region.
A 43 year old widow on a Gloucestershire farm wed her nephew from Southumberland after a lack of knowledge about impediments to close kin unions. The man claimed to be 25 while the woman was twice his stated age, and the license was granted without correction. The couple’s brief marriage collapsed as the man left for the north and the wife died of pneumonia within a month, her wedding deemed illegal.
Probate in London on September 20 grants Baron Nathaniel von Rothschild, Vienna-born partner in S M von Rothschild Frankfurt and Vienna House, sole executor Baron Albert Solomon Anselm von Rothschild. He leaves ten million florins to charities bearing his name for incurable illnesses and assigns various sums to Vienna and Schillersdorf poor funds.
A collection of short, rustic gags and mishearings about mash potatoes, a hot coffee, and wordplay with old women, asses, and battles. The humor relies on puns and innocent misunderstandings characteristic of a bygone era.
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