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Newspaper
Weekly Chronicle
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Mar 31, 1844
Page
3
A narrator contrasts model factory housing with a grim extract about Charles Coleton. The lettered account praises cottages with gardens baths and schools, then shifts to a military tale where Harcourt insults a mother and a son’s moral collapse leads to self-destruction and attempted regicide, ending in suicide at the end.
The Rev Myles Atkinson head master offered governors of St Bees school £600 to build a chapel attached to the school but the governors declined deeming it preferable that the boys attend the parish church. Earthquake shock felt at Galashiels described by many with doors and windows shaken and a rumble heard. Berwick Warder notes Berwick Shipping Company's steamer Manchester sailed for London with 21 tons of dead meat the largest one shipment. Montreal Herald reports Papal appointments creating an apostolic curacy beyond the Rockies and a Bishop of Philadelphia in partibus. Polytechnic Review notes Duke of Richmond used sulphuric acid on sandy soil to boost crop yield versus guano or dung.
A report of Monday proceedings in both Houses. Lord Broacnast opposes factory hour limits, citing dangers of pulmonary disease and maternal duties. In the Commons, discussions on the Factories Bill, proposals for eleven hours, and potential alternative measures dominate.
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