HARD TIMES
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; CHBIBTCHUBOH, This ©ay. Herd times on the labour market turn more footsteps each evening' in the direction of the ' Salvation ArmyIndustrial Home at Addington. With normal accommodation for about ,65 men, the home now regularly gives shelter'to over 70, and-last night the roll number was 82—a record.
Major W. S.- Haines, the .officer in charge of the home, faces almost every ■evening the problem of finding fresh corners for shakedowns, as the Armydoes not care to turn one homeless and penniless man away from its door. A good proportion of younger men is included In the list of casual guests.
-^Vm. cable news In this Issue"accredited to *»• Times" has appeared In that Journal, but
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Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 126, 1 June 1927, Page 9
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121HARD TIMES Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 126, 1 June 1927, Page 9
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