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New England · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1897

15 stories in New England's papers

Armidale Police Court. Friday, Jan. 8.—(Before the P.M.) HAWKER's LICENSE

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 9 January 1897 · page 5

A hawkers license was granted to Peter Mangoin, DRUNKENNESS. A female was fined [?], or…

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Sad Death in a London Hotel

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 12 January 1897 · page 3

EARLY on a recent Sunday morning the body of a lady visitor was found in a bedroom at the Hotel Cecil, London. On a table by the bedside…

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Maitre D'hotel Butter

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 9 April 1897 · page 2

Put 2ozs fresh butter into a basin, with the juice of a lemon, pepper and salt to taste, and a small quantity of parsley freed from moisture and finely minced. Incorporate the…

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A Publican's Rights

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 27 April 1897 · page 4

INNKEEPERS have rights as well as duties. Duty compels them to receive guests who are solvent, sober, and sanitary; but when is the innkeeper justified in turning such guests out?…

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Too Sharp for the Publican

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 7 May 1897 · page 4

A VILLAGE innkeeper in the Middle counties tells how he was cleverly tricked by one of his customers. One day he was boasting to a bar full of people that no one had ever been able to…

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Special Licensing Court. Tuesday, June 15.—(Before Messrs. B. A. Moses and C. A. Jackes)

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 16 June 1897 · page 2

The following renewals of licenses were granted: M.O'Halloran, R. Nairn, C. M'Donald, W. H. Vallis, R. Brown, W. H. Ramsay, G. Foran,…

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How Tom Got the License

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 22 September 1897 · page 3

Lucinda was late that morning. She came in long after breakfast was over, and after a long string of rambling cranes not about her preparations for dinner…

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A Popular Hotelkeeper Cured of Dyspepsia by Loasby's Wahoo. Commercial Hotel, Murrumburrah, 23rd Aug., 1897

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 24 September 1897 · page 2

Dear Sir.—For about two years I suffered from intense pains in the chest after eating, and sickness after meals was a common occurrence with me. I could not sleep…

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Wanted a License

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 25 September 1897 · page 1

A Swede visited the Chicago city hall the other day to procure a marriage license, and a couple of clerks to whom be innocently slated his…

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The Premier and Publicans. Sydney, Thursday Night

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 1 October 1897 · page 5

THE Premier to-day informed a deputation of licensed victuallers that he always considered publicans to be the most heavily taxed people in the community…

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Booth License Refused

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 13 October 1897 · page 2

An application by W. M. Stevenson for a booth license at the railway employees' picnic at Gnyra on Saturday next was refused on the grounds that it was not…

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The Hotel Tragedy in Bloomsbury

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 23 November 1897 · page 2

WILLIAM SCOTT STORMONTH, 35, no occupation, of 14, Abbey-street, Derby, was charged, on remand, at Clerkenwell police-court last month, with…

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The Bloomsbury sHotel Tragedy. Stormonth Condemned for Murder

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 24 December 1897 · page 6

AT the Central Criminal court recently, before Mr. Justice Ridly, Wm. Scott Stormonth, 33, described as an engineer, was indicted for the wilful…

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A Peculiar Declaration. Odd Oath of an Hotel Man

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 28 December 1897 · page 2

Mr. Sydney Woodville, now employed at Yeaman's Agricultural Hotel, Haymarket, Sydney, to a reporter from the Sydney Worker said: " I shall be pleased to give…

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An American Hotel

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 31 December 1897 · page 4

A hotel in the United States has adopted the following rules for the guidance of its guests:-- The motto of the hotel is :-'Do [?]to others…

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