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    the thing that strikes me from a lot of these old newspaper articles is that the prose is a lot more stylish than the average local newspaper today.

    over a hundred years ago work was labour intensive so a great knowledge of english grammar was not that important.

    a paper would not have survived on only middle class educated people buying it so i can only presume that the average railway worker, farm hand or docker had a good command of our language.

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