If you want on or off the ping list for the daily newspaper from 120 years ago, drop me a line, either here or by FReep mail. The rate is 23 cents per week (3 cents for the dailies and a nickel for Sunday).
Bush’s fault.
100 years ago, sometime in 1896, my grandfather who lived in Ipswich, England was 14 years old and stole a chicken..
He was arrested but got some type of probation...
I don’t know if the family were hungry or he did it to impress a girl or his friends etc...
a few years earlier and he would have been transported to Aussie...
Yikes !!!
What page are the comics on? Where’s the sports page? Advice column? Home and garden section? You call this a paper?
Thanks for posting this.
Of the 70 injured, all of them eventually died.
The disaster was in the New Zealand papers on August 3...
heres the New Zealand Herald...
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZH18960803.2.41
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Many couples on the dead and injured lists with most of the victims from the town of Bridgeton. To get an idea of what the injured faced watch the “Knick” tv series.
Interesting look at a slice of life in a bygone era.