News From the archives: Mayo newspaper advertisements, steeplechase fixtures and army news 6 hours ago

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News From the archives: Mayo newspaper advertisements, steeplechase fixtures and army news 6 hours ago — Sources: Connaught Telegraph

WANTED immediately for the tobacco and snuff manufacturing trade in Castlebar, an apprentice of exceptional character; security will be required; apply at the office of this paper’, was an advertisement we find in The Telegraph or Connaught Ranger of March 1829, and it would imply that there was more than one tobacco and snuff making industries in the county town in those far-off days.

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News From the archives: Mayo newspaper advertisements, steeplechase fixtures and army news 6 hours ago

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