EXECUTION OF MR. CHAMBERLAIN !
"" ■> EXCITING SCENES ON THK SCAFFOLD; I'jfK Americans can beat the Britishers all to pieces in newspaper headings, and you may generally gather all that, tlje paper contains |>y carefully reading t|ic elaborate headlines to the various items of news. ( But ill jjic ojit country we have ail institution which far ijreutor than sensational headlines; we refer to tire itinerant news? vendor.
J lie hoys of this particular profession are ivondcrfully 'cute in their adapti.ttio.iiof their cry' to the particular "wants" of tlie linsser-by. The parson, fo:r rimta-liue, is never v|]]iealod (to with " Special I All file iVinnei S f"—that is reserved for more likely nitrons.
Von rnay not mdy {earn., as iti tlie American headings, all the contents nt the paper from their cries, kit may u good de.il that is not in the paper at all j Uu dull days it is almost pathetic to see a ''runner" appealing to ;i "hard case," "Scene in I'ail anient. - Speciali" No answer from the old Kent. " Hon ible disaster at sea!" No answer, ".lack the Ripper's latest!" .Still no answer, A pause, and then," Huin of a ladt' of title. Awful details!" .Still silcncc, *' (lam iiWiS): I Ver ain't human f
And.yet the modest annoiiuci'iiieMismade from time to titnohavu brought liidiiiu Chief into the front rank and tjieir quality will keep thru) tliefp,
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Thames Advertiser, Volume XXVIII, Issue 8595, 26 November 1896, Page 2
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226EXECUTION OF MR. CHAMBERLAIN ! Thames Advertiser, Volume XXVIII, Issue 8595, 26 November 1896, Page 2
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