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Date Name Surname Reason Location Town
11/01/1916     Café Royal, Tel 2580, Observer Telephone Guide 74 Blackburn Road Accrington
11/01/1916     Don Café, Tel 2710, Observer Telephone Guide 97 Blackburn Road Accrington
11/01/1916     General Dealers, Tel 2453, Observer Telephone Guide   Clayton Le Moors
11/01/1916     Taxis Accrington Ltd, Tel 2726, Observer Telephone Guide   Accrington
11/01/1916     Empire Pictures, Grand Theatre, Observer Telephone Guide   Unknown
11/01/1916     Birds and Colours   Unknown
11/01/1916     America, Two Leper Hospitals   America
11/01/1916     Paymasters   Germany
11/01/1916     The Malay language   Unknown
11/01/1916     When Seas Were Fresh   Unknown
11/01/1916     Reflection As A Revealing Factor   Unknown
11/01/1916     Hints for The Home   Unknown
11/01/1916     Alarm Clock, Tip   Unknown
11/01/1916     Pooling Of Railway Trucks   Unknown
11/01/1916     Advantages Of A Narrow chest   Unknown
11/01/1916     Lancashire Schools In 1836   Unknown
11/01/1916     War Time Waste   Liverpool
11/01/1916     A Hint (poem)   Unknown
11/01/1916     Stock And Share Markets   Various
11/01/1916     To Correspondents   Unknown
11/01/1916     Young Folks Column   Unknown
11/01/1916     Locating Needles In The Flesh   Unknown
11/01/1916     Russia's V.C   Unknown
11/01/1916     Prepairing For Victory Observer and Times Accrington
15/01/1916     Accrington and District Homing Society   Accrington
15/01/1916     N.B.W.T.A. Accrington Branch   Accrington
15/01/1916     Bethel Baptist School Barnes Street Accrington
15/01/1916     Paddock House Hospital   Unknown
15/01/1916     Hazlewood Hydro   Grange Over Sands
15/01/1916     Imperial Hydrotel   St Annes On Sea
15/01/1916     Conishead Priory Hydro   Ulverston
15/01/1916     Two Motor Lorries For Hire 89 Abbey Street Accrington
15/01/1916     Taxis Accrington Ltd, Tel 2726 Bull Street Accrington
15/01/1916     National cash register company 16 Fleming Square Blackburn
15/01/1916     economic loan company 40 Warner Street Accrington
15/01/1916     Cunard Line, Liverpool to New York 29 to 30 Cockspur Street London
15/01/1916     Altham and Great Harwood Collieries Whinney Hill Colliery Unknown
15/01/1916     Mentho Carbolic Tooth Paste   Unknown
15/01/1916     The Song She Sang   Unknown
15/01/1916     What They Said In Egypt   Egypt
15/01/1916     Sport And Pastime, Football Fixtures   Unknown
15/01/1916     Boys And Greybeards Needed   Germany
15/01/1916     Café Royal, Tel 2580, Observer Telephone Guide 74 Blackburn Road Accrington
15/01/1916     Don Café, Tel 2710, Observer Telephone Guide 97 Blackburn Road Accrington
15/01/1916     General Dealers, Tel 2453, Observer Telephone Guide   Clayton Le Moors
15/01/1916     Taxis Accrington Ltd, Tel 2726, Observer Telephone Guide   Accrington
15/01/1916     Empire Pictures, Grand Theatre, Observer Telephone Guide   Unknown
15/01/1916     Fall Of Cettinje, Capital Of Montenegro In Austrian Hands   Unknown
15/01/1916     Crime and the War   Southampton
15/01/1916     Khaki Cufflets   Unknown
15/01/1916     Advertising Scale Edgar Street Accrington
15/01/1916     Apartments, board residence vacant separate bedroom 57 Tremellen Street Unknown
15/01/1916     Apartments, sitting room, bedroom and bathroom suitable for gentlemen box 362 Observer office Accrington
15/01/1916     Apartments, Comfortable Apartments Box 364 Observer Office Accrington
15/01/1916     Appartments, Comfortable Superior Appartments Box 356 Observer Office Accrington
15/01/1916     Office Boy Wanted Observer Office Accrington
15/01/1916     Persons Wanted,Cook General wanted at once box 361 Observer office Accrington
15/01/1916     Apprentice To The Printing Trade Wanted Observer Office Accrington
15/01/1916     Woman Wanted To Assist In Housework Box 355 Observer Office Accrington
15/01/1916     Two Or Three Good Six Loom Weavers Wanted Oakvale Mill Accrington
15/01/1916     Wanted A Woman For Housework Box 367 Observer Office Accrington
15/01/1916     Female Clerk Wanted Box 366 Observer Office Accrington
15/01/1916     Wanted Female Assistant, For The Drapery and Furnishing Department Co-operative Society Ltd, 315 Union Road Ostwaldtwistle
15/01/1916     Wanted To Buy, A Five Or Six Roomed House In Burnley Box 357 Observer Office Accrington
15/01/1916     Bells Temperance Club, To Let 142 Royds street Accrington
15/01/1916     Bar-Lock Typewriter Co, 15 Preston New Road Blackburn
15/01/1916     Perambulator Wanted Box 365 Observer Office Accrington
15/01/1916     Tyre Vulcaniser, Second Hand Required Taxis (Accrington) Ltd, Bull Bridge Accrington
15/01/1916     Results of the Accrington Canvass, The Proportion Attesting   Unknown
15/01/1916     Four Of Clubs, Nicknamed, Devil's Four-post Bed   Unknown
15/01/1916     Clayton-Le-Moors, Surprise Tea   Clayton Le Moors
15/01/1916     The Sabatarian   Unknown
15/01/1916     Master Bakers Association, Bread Price Increase   Accrington
15/01/1916     Stock and Share Markets   Various
15/01/1916     Rishton war Fund Committee   Rishton
15/01/1916     Mother if your child's tongue is coated, California syrup of figs, (advert)   Unknown
15/01/1916     A. run on candles, gas and water cut off, explosion while trying to find a leak Blackburn Road Accrington
15/01/1916     Zam-Buk, (advert)   Unknown
15/01/1916     wages increases limited, government decision   Unknown
18/01/1916     sleeplessness   Unknown
18/01/1916     Advertising Scale Edgar Street Accrington
18/01/1916     Musical Entertainment, National Childrens Home London Choir Town Hall Oswaldtwistle
18/01/1916     To Let, Two Unfurnished Rooms Box 368 Observer Office Accrington
18/01/1916     Comfortable Apartments Box 364 Observer Office Accrington
18/01/1916     Comfortable Superior Apartments, At Liberty Bath Box 356 Observer Office Accrington
18/01/1916     wanted at once good improver to confectionery 72 Avenue parade Accrington
18/01/1916     apprentice to printing trade wanted manager, Observer office Accrington
18/01/1916     two or three good six loom Weavers wanted Oakvale Mill Accrington
18/01/1916     wanted, woman for house work in Burnley Road box 367 observer and times Accrington
18/01/1916     female clerk wanted for local office, 16 years of age box 366 Observer office Accrington
18/01/1916     two motor lorries for hire, light carting 89 Abbey St Accrington
18/01/1916     Taxis, Telephone 2726 Bull Bridge Accrington
18/01/1916     Altham and Great Harwood Collieries Whinney Hill Colliery Unknown
18/01/1916     for quick sale, convenient house 71 Rhyddings Street Oswaldtwistle
18/01/1916     to let, Bell's temperance club, Nuttall Street 142 Royds Street Accrington
18/01/1916     bar lock typewriters 15 Preston new Road Blackburn
18/01/1916     perambulator wanted in good condition box 365 Observer office Accrington
18/01/1916     New year greetings   Unknown
18/01/1916     local appeal Tribunal   Unknown
18/01/1916     school closures   Unknown
18/01/1916     Transference of children   Unknown
18/01/1916     earlier closing of schools   Unknown
18/01/1916     applications for repair   Unknown
18/01/1916     Harwood special subjects centre   great Harwood
18/01/1916     Labour in 1915, £603,000 per week more in wages, the higher cost of road   Unknown
18/01/1916     Queens Hall Church   church
18/01/1916     actor and revolver   Todmorden
18/01/1916     Save the Children    
18/01/1916     Saturdays results   various
18/01/1916     nervousness   Unknown
18/01/1916     words of wisdom, self analysis   Unknown
18/01/1916     words of wisdom, principal   Unknown
18/01/1916     words of wisdom, worry no good   Unknown
18/01/1916     preserved pork   Unknown
18/01/1916     Germanies hunt for wool   Unknown
18/01/1916     charges against munition workers   Nottingham
18/01/1916     terrible fire in Norway, thousands homeless and damage placed at £5 million   Norway
18/01/1916     bottled beer dearer   London
18/01/1916     dearer bread   Blackburn
18/01/1916     submarine explosion   America
18/01/1916     sites and scenes in a busy newspaper office   Unknown
18/01/1916     Empire picture Palace   Unknown
18/01/1916     stock and share markets   various
18/01/1916     Accrington Observer & Times, preparing for victory   Accrington
18/01/1916     to correspondents   Unknown
18/01/1916     perfect or faultless beauty   Unknown
18/01/1916     Mentho carbolic toothpaste   Unknown
18/01/1916     aeroplane signalling   Unknown
18/01/1916     Café Royal, Tel 2580, Observer Telephone Guide 74 Blackburn Road Accrington
18/01/1916     Don Café, Tel 2710, Observer Telephone Guide 97 Blackburn Road Accrington
18/01/1916     General Dealers, Tel 2453, Observer Telephone Guide   Clayton Le Moors
18/01/1916     Taxis Accrington Ltd, Tel 2726, Observer Telephone Guide   Accrington
18/01/1916     Empire Pictures, Grand Theatre, Observer Telephone Guide   Unknown
22/01/1916     Burnley Road subscription bowling green club   Accrington
22/01/1916     Paddock house Hospital, collections   Unknown
22/01/1916     two motor lorries for hire, light carting 89 abbey street Accrington
22/01/1916     Taxis, Telephone 2726 Bull Bridge Accrington
22/01/1916     Hazlewood Hydro   Grange Over Sands
22/01/1916     Imperial Hydrotel   St Annes On Sea
22/01/1916     Conishead Priory Hydro   Ulverston
22/01/1916     Cunard Line, Liverpool to New York   Liverpool
22/01/1916     Altham and Great Harwood Collieries Whinney Hill Colliery Unknown
22/01/1916     Foreign And Colonial, (newspaper)   Unknown
22/01/1916     New Use For Seaweed   Germany
22/01/1916     Filtrate Oil Filtrate Works Leeds
22/01/1916     The Trade And Liquor Control   Unknown
22/01/1916     Greenock Corporation, House Building Scheme   Greenock
22/01/1916     Red White & Blue, Coffee   Unknown
22/01/1916     Advertising Scale Observer and Times Accrington
22/01/1916     To Let, Two Unfurnished Rooms Box 368 Observer Office Accrington
22/01/1916     Appartments, With Bathroom, Willows Lane District Box 371 Observer Office Accrington
22/01/1916     Appartments, Comfortable Superior Appartments Box 356 Observer Office Accrington
22/01/1916     Apartments, Comfortable Apartments Box 364 Observer Office Accrington
22/01/1916     Bedroom and Sitting Room, With Bathroom Required Box 374 Observer Office Accrington
22/01/1916     Wanted at Once, Good Improver To The Confectionary Trade 72 Avenue Parade Accrington
22/01/1916     Wanted Competent Works Clerk Box 369 Observer Office Accrington
22/01/1916     Wanted Lady Clerks good at figures Box 370 Observer Office Accrington
22/01/1916     Apprentice To The Printing Trade Wanted Observer Office Accrington
22/01/1916     Two Or Three Good Six Loom Weavers Wanted Oakvale Mill Accrington
22/01/1916     Office Boy Wanted For Cotton Mill Office Box 373 Observer Office Accrington
22/01/1916     Ambitious Women and Girls are Wanted 4 Lomax Street Great Harwood
22/01/1916     female clerk wanted for local office, 16 years of age box 366 Observer office Accrington
22/01/1916     Café Royal, Tel 2580, Observer Telephone Guide 74 Blackburn Road Accrington
22/01/1916     Don Café, Tel 2710, Observer Telephone Guide 97 Blackburn Road Accrington
22/01/1916     General Dealers, Tel 2453, Observer Telephone Guide   Clayton Le Moors
22/01/1916     Taxis Accrington Ltd, Tel 2726, Observer Telephone Guide   Accrington
22/01/1916     Empire Pictures, Grand Theatre, Observer Telephone Guide   Unknown
22/01/1916     for quick sale, convenient house 71 Rhyddings Street Oswaldtwistle
22/01/1916     Bells Temperance Club, To Let 142 Royds street Accrington
22/01/1916     Good Seven Roomed House to Let 41 Tremellen Street Accrington
22/01/1916     To Let Shop And House, 41 Burnley Road 39 Burnley Road Accrington
22/01/1916     Wanted Furs to Re-Line or Re-Model The Empire, Nuttall Street Unknown
22/01/1916     perambulator wanted in good condition box 365 Observer office Accrington
22/01/1916     Masseuse (Qualified) Visits Daily Box 372 Observer Office Accrington
22/01/1916     Bar-Lock Typewriter Co, 15 Preston New Road Blackburn
22/01/1916     Oswaldtwistle Collieries Ltd, Balance Sheet   Oswaldtwistle
22/01/1916     Hippings Vale Spinning Company, Profit   Oswaldtwistle
22/01/1916     Blackburn Board Of Guardians, Vacancy   Unknown
22/01/1916     Clayton Le Moors, Weavers Report   Clayton Le Moors
22/01/1916     California Fig Syrup Company   Unknown
22/01/1916     Grape Nuts, (advert)   Unknown
22/01/1916     Stop Press News, Turkish Defeat In Caucasus   Unknown
22/01/1916     Gas And Explosives, An Appeal To Consumers, Use More Gas   Unknown
22/01/1916     A Pals Football Team   Salisbury
25/01/1916     National Relief fund   Unknown
25/01/1916     Cocoa Exports To Neutrals   Unknown
25/01/1916     Thoos Lads Fro Accrington, (poem)   Unknown
25/01/1916     Not Business As Before   Unknown
25/01/1916     House Damage   East Prussia
25/01/1916     Stop Press News, German Sea Plane At Dover   Dover
25/01/1916     Drink Restrictions, Week Days As Sundays   Unknown
25/01/1916     Advertising Scale Observer and Times Accrington
25/01/1916     wanted at once good improver to confectionery 72 Avenue parade Accrington
25/01/1916     Day Girl Wanted To Assist In Housework Box 375 Observer Office Accrington
25/01/1916     Wanted Competent Works Clerk Box 369 Observer Office Accrington
25/01/1916     Masseuse, (Qualified) Visits Daily Box 372 Observer Office Accrington
25/01/1916     Wanted Lady Clerks good at figures Box 370 Observer Office Accrington
25/01/1916     Apprentice To The Printing Trade Wanted Observer Office Accrington
25/01/1916     Office Boy Wanted For Cotton Mill Office Box 373 Observer Office Accrington
25/01/1916     Ambitious Women and Girls are Wanted 4 Lomax Street Great Harwood
25/01/1916     Wanted Furs to Re-Line or Re-Model The Empire, Nuttall Street Unknown
25/01/1916     Altham and Great Harwood Collieries Whinney Hill Colliery Unknown
25/01/1916     Two Motor Lorries For Hire 89 Abbey Street Accrington
25/01/1916     Taxis, Telephone 2726 Bull Bridge Accrington
25/01/1916     for quick sale, convenient house 71 Rhyddings Street Oswaldtwistle
25/01/1916     Good Seven Roomed House to Let 41 Tremellen Street Accrington
25/01/1916     To Let Shop And House, 41 Burnley Road 39 Burnley Road Accrington
25/01/1916     Bar-Lock Typewriter Co, 15 Preston New Road Blackburn
25/01/1916     Observations, Accrington and Burnley Howitzer Brigade   Unknown
25/01/1916     A Transports Escape, How 1,900 Troops Were Saved   Unknown
25/01/1916     Saturdays Results   Various
25/01/1916     Stock and Share Markets   Various
25/01/1916     Café Royal, Tel 2580, Observer Telephone Guide 74 Blackburn Road Accrington
25/01/1916     Don Café, Tel 2710, Observer Telephone Guide 97 Blackburn Road Accrington
25/01/1916     General Dealers, Tel 2453, Observer Telephone Guide   Clayton Le Moors
25/01/1916     Taxis Accrington Ltd, Tel 2726, Observer Telephone Guide   Accrington
25/01/1916     Empire Pictures, Grand Theatre, Observer Telephone Guide   Unknown
25/01/1916     Nelson Weavers For Compulsion   Nelson
25/01/1916     Birkdale Park, Smedley Hydropathic Establishment   Southport
29/01/1916     Public Announcements, N.B.W.T.A. Accrington Branch, Tea Meeting   Accrington
29/01/1916     Public Announcements, Lost, Squirrel Necklet Fur police Station Accrington
29/01/1916     accrington and District Watchmakers and Jewellers Association   Accrington
29/01/1916     Paddock House Hospital, The Collections   Unknown
29/01/1916     Wanted A Good Confectionary Business Box 376 Observer Office Accrington
29/01/1916     Two Motor Lorries For Hire 89 Abbey Street Accrington
29/01/1916     Taxis, Telephone 2726 Bull Bridge Accrington
29/01/1916     Linotype Setting Observer and Times Unknown
29/01/1916     Advertising Scale Accrington Observer Unknown
29/01/1916     for quick sale, convenient house 71 Rhyddings Street Oswaldtwistle
29/01/1916     To Sell By Private Treaty, Shop and House, 90 Abbey Street, Accrington Burnley Building Society, 12 Grimshawe Street Burnley
29/01/1916     Good Seven Roomed House to Let 41 Tremellen Street Accrington
29/01/1916     To Sell, House 90 Blackburn Road Clayton Le Moors
29/01/1916     To Let, House and Shop 39 Burnley Road Accrington
29/01/1916     Wanted Furs to Re-Line or Re-Model The Empire, Nuttall Street Unknown
29/01/1916     Masseuse (Qualified) Visits Daily Box 372 Observer Office Accrington
29/01/1916     Foreign And Colonial, (newspaper)   Unknown
29/01/1916     Cunard Line, Liverpool to New York   Liverpool
29/01/1916     Altham and Great Harwood Collieries Whinney Hill Colliery Unknown
29/01/1916     Hazlewood Hydro   Grange Over Sands
29/01/1916     Imperial Hydrotel   St Annes On Sea
29/01/1916     Conishead Priory Hydro   Ulverston
29/01/1916     Lancashire School Staffs   Unknown
29/01/1916     Six Free Silk Flags, Sunday Stories   Unknown
29/01/1916     Nettles As Food   Unknown
29/01/1916     Waste Bleachers Ltd, Commercial Vehicles   Bury
29/01/1916     Bread Rations In Saxony   Unknown
29/01/1916     Ode To A Pal, (poem)   Unknown
29/01/1916     Skirts Shorter Still   Unknown
29/01/1916     Café Royal, Tel 2580, Observer Telephone Guide 74 Blackburn Road Accrington
29/01/1916     Don Café, Tel 2710, Observer Telephone Guide 97 Blackburn Road Accrington
29/01/1916     General Dealers, Tel 2453, Observer Telephone Guide   Clayton Le Moors
29/01/1916     Taxis Accrington Ltd, Tel 2726, Observer Telephone Guide   Accrington
29/01/1916     Empire Pictures, Grand Theatre, Observer Telephone Guide   Unknown
29/01/1916     California Syrup Of Figs   Unknown
29/01/1916     Postage Stamp Dealers   Unknown
29/01/1916     Bad Flour   Unknown
29/01/1916     Export of Opium to China   Unknown
29/01/1916     Stock and Share Markets   Various
29/01/1916     Appartments with Bathroom Box 571 Observer Office Accrington
29/01/1916     Bedroom and Sitting Room With Bath Box 374 Observer Office Accrington
29/01/1916     Wanted a Good Fireman for two Lancashire Boilers Spring Vale Dye Works Waterford
29/01/1916     Wanted Competent Works Clerk Box 369, Observer Office Accrington
29/01/1916     Day Girl Wanted To Assist In Housework Box  
29/01/1916     Day Girl Wanted To Assist In Housework Box 375 Observer Office Accrington
29/01/1916     Wanted Lady Clerks good at figures Box 370 Observer Office Accrington
29/01/1916     Apprentice To The Printing Trade Wanted Observer Office Accrington
29/01/1916     Wanted A Working Electrician Box 377, Observer Office Accrington
29/01/1916     Ambitious Women and Girls are Wanted 4 Lomax Street Great Harwood
29/01/1916     Bassinette Wanted Box 378 Observer Office Accrington
29/01/1916     Corporation Employees, Higher Wages Wanted   Unknown
29/01/1916     Accrington, Local Recruiting   Accrington
29/01/1916     Charity Concert, Rehearsals Town Hall Oswaldtwistle
29/01/1916     Church and Oswaldtwistle, Flag Day   Oswaldtwistle
29/01/1916     Church and Oswaldtwistle, Licensing Day   Oswaldtwistle
29/01/1916     Deaths from starvation   England
29/01/1916     Museum's To Close   London
29/01/1916     Theft of a Ferret   Ashby de la Zouch
29/01/1916     What Dyspeptics Should Eat   Unknown
29/01/1916     Rishton, War Fund Collections   Rishton
29/01/1916     Great Harwood, Postal Curtailments   Great Harwood
29/01/1916     Manchester Munitions Tribunal   Manchester
29/01/1916     Postal Changes, Facilities Curtailed   Unknown
29/01/1916     Dripping 2s 10d A Pound   Unknown
29/01/1916     Reindeer For Food   Unknown
01/02/1916     Prizes for Simplex   Unknown
01/02/1916     War Loans For The Small Investor   Unknown
01/02/1916     Burnley Cricket Club's Loss   Burnley
01/02/1916     Shortage Of Linen   Unknown
01/02/1916     Waste Of Gas   Unknown
01/02/1916     The War Novel   Unknown
01/02/1916     Advertising Scale Observer and Times Accrington
01/02/1916     Lost, Sable Muff 13 Avenue Parade Unknown
01/02/1916     accrington and District Watchmakers and Jewellers Association   Unknown
01/02/1916     Day Girl Wanted To Assist In Housework Box 375 Observer Office Accrington
01/02/1916     Wanted, Apprentice To The Printing Trade Observer Office Accrington
01/02/1916     Grocery, Wanted Young Man Box 379, Observer Office Accrington
01/02/1916     Office Boy Wanted For Cotton Mill Office Box 373, Observer Office Accrington
01/02/1916     Wanted A Working Electrician Box 377, Observer Office Accrington
01/02/1916     Wanted Female Assistant, For The Drapery and Furnishing Department Co-operative Society Ltd, 315 Union Road Ostwaldtwistle
01/02/1916     Ambitious Women and Girls are Wanted 4 Lomax Street Great Harwood
01/02/1916     Wanted A Good Confectionary Business Box 376 Observer Office Accrington