Walton-on-the-Naze?" asks a contemporary. Have they tried the effect
of placing notice-boards along the front?

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For the first time the public have been admitted to a meeting of the
Beckenham Council. It is pleasant to find that the importance of good
wholesome entertainment is not being lost sight of in some places.

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Asked by the Wood Green magistrates for the names of his six children,
a defendant said that he did not know them. It is a good plan for a
man to get his wife to introduce him to the children.

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It appears that a certain gentleman has managed to overcome the
domestic servant problem. He has married one.

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A Salford man giving evidence in a local court told the magistrates
that his wife had repeatedly stuck pins into him. There is no excuse
for such conduct, even with pin-cushions at their present inflated
price.

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No one seemed to take the rat-plague very seriously in the Isle of