An Extraordinary Application.
The Home News tells its that at a meeting of the Peterborough Board of Guardians on Jan. 28, the clerk read the following extraordinary application" Farcett, Hunts, Jan. 26,1888.—Sir,—Some timo back a man wrote to you for a wife, He live at Dogsthrope, I think. Well, now, I want one out of the Union, if you have one that will do, I am a batcbelor, ;'fourty-lour years of age, and heard the parson read at Church on Sunday that it was no good for a man to live alone by hisself, so if you have a woman in the house as wants a good husband send her to me, I hear that a man at Dogsthorpe got a good wife -ask the Board what they can do for me,—Yours, James Dale.—Mr'Vergette, Clerk to the Board of Guardians Petersberg, Northamptonshire." The master said the previous applicant, who was about fifty, came to the house and saw about twenty of the women, and one of them went out soon afterwards. It was suggested that the applicant should go to the house, and see if he could find a wile, and the matter dropped.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2890, 4 May 1888, Page 2
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194An Extraordinary Application. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2890, 4 May 1888, Page 2
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