Reference
Z1886/7
Title
'The Davis Gazette' magazine of the Davis Gas Stove Company, Luton and London. Volume 1 No. 7
Date free text
Feb 1921
Production date
From: 1921 To: 1921
Scope and Content
Includes:
- Editorial notes.
- 'A New Year Rally' report of 'Oxford Street' entertaining colleagues of The Davis Gas Stove Company Ltd from Camberwell and Luton on 1 January.
- Party 'Pokes'; rehtorical humourous questions arising from the 'New Year Rally'.
- Reminiscences of a whist drive from the referee 9believed to be whist drive a the 'New Year Rally').
- 'A Call to Action' poem by A W Banks.
- Photographs of a kitten playing with a shoe and of C A Bone of the Drawing Office sitting on a stone wall at Silsoe woods.
- 'We Would Like to Know' thought to be questions relating to internal issues and jokes within the company.
- Oxford Street personalities; witty descriptions of Oxford Street staff, identified by initials.
- Economy, including a poem about 'hand-me-down trousers'
- The Night of the Storm; short story
- Davis Athletic and Social Club report; the Pascall Cup, presented by The Interoven Stove Company Ltd., and t be offered annually for billiards. Football, hockey and indoor games reports.
- 'The Letters of Maurice' humorous epistle.
- 'Wives and Women' by a mere man.
- Tennis Clubs' dance at Castle Street Hall
- Wedding Bells: marriages of staff members: Percy William Barth, previously of the Brick Shed, to Annie West.
- 'What I Mean by "Safety First" ' by Gertrude King, aged 13, winner of competition for children of employees of The Davis Gas Stove Company Ltd.
- Correspondence
- H & C Davis & Co Ltd., gossip from Clapham and Camberwell.
- Cartoon 'Stocktaking at Clapham'
- Allotments by J B Riding F.R.H.S
Level of description
item