The Rev. P. B. Meyer, speaking at / Tiverton, expressed the hope that deacons of chapels would not allow the premises to. be used for whist drives. "I would rather," lie said, "tho places were shut up than be kept going by money made by whist drives. God Almighty is not so hard up that ho has to go to the Devil for subscriptions." Mr. Charles O'Dowd, manager of the Darlington tramways, who died recently was a conductor on the first tramways in Britain, constructed at Birkenhead. In the early seventies Mr. O'Dowd drove the first horso car in Dublin, and ho also drove the first street car in Leicester.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1389, 15 March 1912, Page 5
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109Page 5 Advertisements Column 1 Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1389, 15 March 1912, Page 5
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