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SERVED UNDER 40 LORD MAYORS.
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Miss. J. BARNES, a native of Dearham for 50 years has been housekeeper to the Manchester Corporation. She lives with a maid in a lonely mansion on the edge of Lake Thirlmere.
 
She is still hale and strong and does all the work with the help of the maid. She has seen the water scheme begun and finished and has served under 40 Lord Mayors of Manchester.
 

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RECORD DEARHAM BREAK.
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Mr. William DOBIE, a former member of the very successful Oddfellows team which held the Workington Orme Billiards League Shield for the last three seasons of the competition, has proved a billiards acquisition to the Dearham Welfare Institute. On Friday he made the first century break in the Institute, 100 exactly.
 
 

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WHITEHAVEN MARRIED WOMEN ON
“DOLE.”
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The effects of the new regulations governing Unemployment Insurance in the Whitehaven area have not been of a very important character.
 
The number of seasonal workers and married women who have been receiving benefit while their husbands are working, and who are now displaced from the register is less than 50, as against thousands in the industrial towns of Lancashire and Yorkshire.
 
It is interesting to note that these new regulations are not the result of the recent economy proposals.
 
 
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