Woman who smokes at 100 – The Daily Mirror – Tuesday 15th March 1910
WOMAN WHO SMOKES AT 100.
Mrs. Jarron, an inmate of Leicester Workhouse, who celebrated her 100th birthday yesterday. Mrs. Jarron, who is seen above with her favourite pipe, is an inveterate smoker, and was yesterday presented with a well-filled tobacco-box. She is the mother of eleven children, and has 168 descendants living, including 106 great-grandchildren and eight great-great-grandchildren.
The Daily Mirror – Tuesday 15th March 1910
Men Fined at Willesden for Insulting Lady Attired in New Fashion – 1911
THREE ANKLE SKIRT WEARERS.
Men Fined at Willesden for Insulting Lady Attired in New Fashion.
For causing a disturbance by using insulting words to a lady wearing an ankle skirt, Alfred Howcroft and Frank Chapman, packers, were each fined 3s. 6d. at Willesden yesterday.
In St. Paul’s Churchyard yesterday a tall, pretty girl appeared in an ankle skirt. Six or seven inches of trousers appeared below her skirts, and the unwonted sight soon drew a crowd. To escape them she took refuge in a teashop and passed out into Paternoster-row, only to find her admirers there. Finally she escaped in a taxicab.
Another ankle skirt wearer appeared in Hull. The attentions of a crowd forced her to take refuge in a costumier’s shop, and it was only by saying, untruthfully, that she had gone that the police were able to clear the street. Her costume was vivid blue in colour.
The Daily Mirror – Wednesday 22nd March 1911
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