Yorkshire Almanac 2025

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On Sunday evening last, a fatal accident happened in the suburbs of the city of York. Mrs. Douglas, a widow residing in Tanner-row, was walking on the City walls near North-street Postern, in company with another elderly female; a sudden gust of wind arising, she slipped from the path, and fell on the mound below, which caused her death in a few minutes. She was upwards of eighty years of age. It is a singular circumstance that her husband was killed by the sails of a mill about 28 years ago.

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Allbutt’s full article, “On Brain Forcing,” recapitulates the eternal debate between schoolteachers and physicians and was published in the inaugural issue of Brain (Allbutt 1878/04).

Hansard quotes the bishop thus: “I should say it would be better that England should be free than that England should be compulsorily sober.” But Hansard is (still) not always a faithful record, and “Better a nation of free drunkards than a nation of teetotal slaves” may be nearer the truth.

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