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Mock German Cake
1 medium sized potato boiled in a little water and then mashed in the water (Makes about a cup). 1 cup sugar (bare), 2 cups S.R. flour, currants, pinch salt.
Topping—2 tablespoons plain flour, 2 tablespoons sugar, 2 tablespoons butter, nutmeg, cinnamon. Rub all together. Cook in 2 sandwich tins with topping on top, in fairly hot oven about ½ hour.—E. M. Barrows.
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General News
✦Concealment of Sex for Fifty Years.—Last week there died in Rigby’s-yard, Scholes, Wigan, aged ninety-seven a woman whose name is believed to have been Betty Lavin, and respecting whom certain facts have lately come to light which have interested every particular of her life and habits with considerable interest. For about fifty years Betty had resided in Wigan, and during the whole of that period she has been known as John Murphy, having appropriated the garb and assumed the habits of a man; and this so successfully, that none have discovered the cheat, or even so far as we can learn, had their suspicions aroused. During her residence in Wigan she has followed the occupation of a hawker, and as such has become known to a large circle of customers ; she has also been on the relieving officers books for the last twelve months, and having been ill she has been visited by Mr. Heaton, union surgeon. To all these she has been known as the man John Murphy, and, what is still more singular, she did not previous to her decease inform any person of the deceit she had so long practised. As John Murphy she lived and died, as John Murphy her death was registered by the surgeon, and it was only at the last moment, when the final offices previous to interment were being performed, it was discovered, that under a fictitious name, and in an assumed habit, she must have lived for so many years. ‘John’ had resided in the house in which she died for a long time, and she had regularly slept underneath the stairs during that period, whether from fear of discovery cannot of course be stated. On her becoming ill, the necessity of removing to some more convenient resting-place than this was frequently shown to her, but she obstinately refused to change her quarters. At last it became necessary that she should be removed, and she had then to be taken by force to a ‘settle’ in the house, and upon which she lay until her death. Dying as she did, without making any statement, the case is enveloped in considerable mystery.
—The Border Watch, No. 1 Vol. 1, Friday 26 April 1861, page 1 .
Original source?: Oxford University Herald, 12 January 1861.
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So, reality TV ‘personality’ (now ‘journalist’), Katie Hopkins of that fine gutter rag, The (U.K.) Sun, having delighted us with her banter about how asylum seekers (much like those pesky Jews) are just like cockroaches, went on to wax lyrical about our asylum seeker policies and Australians having “tiny hearts and whacking great gunships…balls of steel [and] can-do brains”. Inevitably this has lead to cartoons.
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A short piece from the French news about gender segregation and power in the playground.
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