Oliver Twist Compared With Modern Workhouse Reform
The report by Dr. Macnamara compares Dickens era Oliver Twist to today’s approach for pauper children. It describes scattered homes and cottages, bright facilities, workshops, and gymnasiums as replacements for harsh workhouses. It explores potential paths for a child’s future from schooling to emigration, and argues for separating children from excessive parental influence.
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Macnamara
M.P
Oliver
Twist
Dickens
Foat
Sidcup Astab- Wahed
Greenwich Union
State upbringing vs parents in Oliver Twist debates
A critique argues that forced parental contributions to a child’s maintenance push families into dependence on the State. It contrasts harsh expectations with Oliver Twist style outcomes, noting that critics warn of guardians being deemed unfit and facing legal penalties. It questions today’s Poor Law as a better alternative.
British Soldier in India Shows Practical Bridge Build
Lord Roberts recounts a Lubal expedition scene in 1871 where a bridge across the Tipal river is set up by local coolies. While a sapper officer calculated forces, natives swiftly built a bamboo bridge by hand, proving practical engineering can rival theory as the engineer admires their work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lord Roberts
Tipal
Sapper Company
Crude Rants on Vivisection and Rulers Taller Than Wives
Fragmentary letters mock a proposed statewide vote on vivisection and moral reform. The text interleaves odd medical claims with flashy statements about criminals, animals, and a bizarre aside claiming only two European rulers are taller than their wives, mentioning the King of Norway and the Prince of Montenegro.
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Norway
Prince of
Montenegro
Europe
Billiard Tricks From Strand Magazine Featured by Harvereson
Readable excerpts describe multiple screw back shots and cannon plays from Strand Magazine, with detailed setups for red and white balls, cushion rails, and left-hand spin. Cecil Harvereson and MAM. Inman offer practical demonstrations and a finale trick involving a spectator challenge and chalked thumb cue grip technique.
Billiard Trick Shots Described With Cannons and Pockets
The article explains cannon shots in billiards with the cue ball struck from the right side to send it around cushions to cannon into object balls near the baulk line. It notes applause for shots where the striker’s ball is in hand while both object balls are in back, and references diagrams Fig 12 and Fig 1X.
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Browes
Alance
Fir. & T
Inman
Wits
Fis
Siwaya
Bautk
Engraving by Telegraph Produces Printing Plates
The article describes Carbonelli in Belgium using a plotura with non conducting ink to drive a revolving cylinder under a stylus linked to telegraph lines. A receiving cylinder coated with soft metal like lead bears a needle that cuts varying depths by current intensity, yielding a ready printing plate without further changes.
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Tal Graph
Carbonelli
Belgium
Luminous Owl Tales Spark Strange Night Reports
A Tendon Times correspondent reports the appearance of a luminous owl described as blue firelike light. Accounts from multiple observers in Shropshire and a district teacher recount sightings, with notes on the bird’s luminosity, possible causes, and the owl’s behavior and lair.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Times
T. Dig Pigott van Ae Orst
Digby
Bae
Ike
Evon
Digby Pigott
Shropshire
Strix Dammet
Wcood
Mystery of the Navy’s Path Probed by Officials
A fragmentary exchange questions why the Navy sails west and not east with voices naming Captain Boake and others. The President and Secretary are pressed for answers as speculation runs about strategic directions and risks, with a provocative line attributing the Navy’s course to unfavorable conditions from Omaha.
Night calls at chemists tax order in Austria
The Austrian government imposes a tax on nightly calls to chemists between 10 p m and 7 a m as part of a ministry order. The aim is to encourage daytime purchases and ease public burden, with exemptions for urgent cases and physician expedited nocturna notes. Assistants on night duty may keep the collected tax as compensation for extra labor.
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Vienna
Ministry of the Interior
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Resch’s
Dowling St., Redfern
Brewers
Bey
Metropoltan Association
Canada
Thomas W
Lambeth
England
India
Ag Rere Og Migey
Strand
Cecil Harverson
W. Cook
Telegraph
Brown Street
Newtown
Marcus Clark &Co., Ltd
Miteay
Dutan Ur
Navy
Boake
Bob Evans
Elye
Waldo
Strajes
Salling East
Loeb
William Leeb
Fort Seat
Omaha
Harper's Weekly
Deakin
United
Australia
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