As Egyptian Cotton Now Costs Eight Shillings A Pound Instead
of me shilling, as it used to do, and as the cost of labour has trebled, the price of sewing-cotton has advanced. No doubt the apparently huge profits made by the firm stagger......
Our Readers Will Be Glad To Hear That The Appeal
published in the Spectator under the heading " Who Shall Nurse the Nurses ? " resulted in several generous offers of houses to be lent rent free for the Red Cross Convalescent......
What We Have Written Elsewhere On " The Dread Of
a Profit" is admirably illustrated both by the Board of Trade Committee's Report on Messrs. Coats's sewing-cotton business and by some of the newspaper comments on it. The......
Sir Walter De Frece Was Returned As A Coalition Unionist
in the by-election at Ashton-under-Lyne. He polled 8,8f4 votes, while Mr. Robinson, the Labour candidate, polled 8,127, and Sir Arthur Marshall, the Independent Liberal, came......
Last Week, In Commenting On The Great Expansion Of The
Labour Party to take in brain-workers as well as manual workers, we predicted that the party would wreck itself by its own apparent success, very much in the manner in which the......
The Irish Independent Of Wednesday Week Published A...
a correspondent who demanded the names of the " back- boneless Catholics " on the Board of Intermediate Education who had allowed Scott's Ivanhoe to be restored to the list of......
Dr. Jowett, The Nonconformist Minister Of Westminster...
sermon last Sunday evening in Durham Cathedral to a congregation of some 7,000 persons. The occasion was marred by one unseemly act of bigotry. A clergyman of the Church of......
We Commented Last Week Upon The " Modernist " Pictures
at the Exhibition of the Society of Modern Portrait Painters is the following words :- "They seem little better than hastily executed efforts to astonish and annoy, and among......
An Outline Of The Army Estimates Was Published On Wednes-
day. The total sum required for the year 1920-21 is £125,000,000, but out of this no more than £55,000,000 is required for the Army on the establishment authorised before the......
Oxford, No Longer The Home Of Lost Causes, Seems Ready
to admit women to a full share of the privileges of the University. Congregation on Tuesday accepted without a division the preamble of a statute admitting women to......
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