a partner church in the WOLDSBURN benefice
CHURCH AT KIRKBURN
LOOKING BACK, LOOKING FORWARD
Audrey Baxter
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www.churchatkirkburn,org,uk page 149 (150) looking back/looking forward March 2007 14/3/07
If it was the news and pictures you were eager to see in your daily newspaper in the 1900s they would not be on the front page of your penny broadsheet. No ! This was laid out with classified advertisements. Dozens of them. In a copy of the Hull Daily Mail (incorporating Hull Packet; established 1787 and East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire Courier) dated October 18th 1918, the following examples appeared:
“ Bring or send your old umbrella to us, to be re-
“FOR SALE.
“Dykeing boots for farmers. Government rejects. Quite watertight. Usual price 50/-
“Set of natural fox furs, practically new, beautifully marked.”
“Why not keep rabbits? A quantity for sale, Feed your family cheaply and clothe them with
the skins. To say nothing of having rabbit shooting in your own back garden”
and further down this column
“CATCH THAT RABBIT. Our traps do the trick. Paragon rabbit trap complete with chain. 2/9d each.”
“All mothers should send for this booklet. Many useful home remedies. Don’t suffer, This book teaches you the remedies. Effective, harmless, inexpensive. Save money and restore health”
“There’s nothing new about re-