South Yorkshire Times, January 27th, 1933

Marconigrams

So that’s why it’s called “leg piffle.”

A kiss over the telephone is no more felt than a straw hat.

After all, there is much in our English weather to add mire.

Fourteen degrees of frost were registered in Mexborough on Monday.

Last year the Society of Yorkshiremen in London enrolled 87 members.

The Denaby unemployed are experimenting with communal potato-growing.

What can you get on your radio? We can’t get more than a couple of pounds.

The Sheffield district was yesterday released from foot-and-mouth disease restrictions.

“What the country wants.” said the patriot as he suddenly shot down the slide, “is grit.”

John Baker and Bessemer, Ltd., Kilnhurst, regret that they are obliged to pass their preference dividend.

According to Mr. O. E. Adey, sales manager at the Manvers Main Collieries, the Coal Mines Act of 1830 is like the curate’s egg-good in Part One.

You can’t heat press advertising. Look what Samson did with a couple of columns —brought the house down.

Our photograph, “Riders to the See,” in last week’s issue, was the work of Mr. Maurice Medcalf, Mexborough.

Mr John Watkin, cashier to the Denaby and Cadeby Collieries, retires next Tuesday after 53 years’ service with the Company.

“Business is not holiness; our hands may be full and our hearts empty.”—The Rector of Wombwell, the Rev. J. St. Leger Blakeney

Owing to the influenza epidemic the Montagu Hospital, Mexboro’, is closed to visitors by order of the Mexboro’ medical officer, until further notice.

Mr. H. E. Elliott, editor of the South Yorkshire Times has been appointed to represent the Sheffield District on the Council of the Institute of Journalists.