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Just after eight o’clock on the evening of 9 April 1904, a policeman walking his beat in the cold and...
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There are a good many young women who seem to think that to ‘keep company’ with, and afterwards to marry,...
HAMMER AND FILE GRINDER Wanted, a steady, good WORKMAN. –Apply Monday afternoon, ROBERT RENTON, Yorkshire Hammer and File Works, Napier...
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On 11 July 1778, W. Jackson, the proprietor of a store in High Street, advertised his wares in the Oxford Journal...
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