Word: towns
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...great population of provincial England is distributed very unevenly; the industrial centres, like Lancastershire, Yorkshire and Durham, are congested, while the rural districts are only thinly populated. The reason for this is that the more progressive of the rural population have abandoned farming and settled in the manufacturing towns. Although the people of these agricultural districts have advanced in learning, the physical appearance of the country is practically the same as in the eighteenth century. One of the most interesting parts of rural England is the Isle of Oxholme in Lincolnshire, which is the only part of the country where...
...hypothetical young man may have the ambition to help his country, state, or town, and do this in the capacity of a "boss." A politician who is a member of the bar is usually a politician because he has failed to be a lawyer, and good lawyers usually fail to become good politicians. The greatest recommendation of a successful lawyer is that he has the power to do justice to mankind...
...Bangs began by explaining the meaning of his subject. He said that a short time ago he came to a Western town to deliver a lecture, and found on arriving that he had already been introduced in the shape of a photograph; who sat for it he did not know. A copy of it was in an apothecary's shop and under it the inscription, "Danderine did this and we can prove it." He was much surprised to see in the paper that he was going to speak that evening on "Salubrities I Have Met," since he had written that...
...order to show the world how to do it is an interesting one and would have to be considered apart from the question of its use as a school of journalism. A model church, a model theatre, a model factory, and a model farm, perhaps also a model town, are a few other possibilities which might be considered in the same connection...
...Dartmouth hockey team remained in town over Sunday, the postponed game with the University team will be played at 3 o'clock in the Stadium rink if weather conditions permit. In case the rink is not in good condition, the game will be played either at the Brae Burn Country Club or possibly at the Winchester Country Club...