. History of the United Co-operative Baking Society Ltd., a fifty years' record, 1869-1919. Pte. THOMAS ALSTON, Royal Scots Motor Driver Killed, 23rd July 1916 CORNELL UNIVERSITY LIBRARY 3 1924 092 618 564 PREFACE. The chief advantage of prefaces is the opportunities they giveauthors for making apologies and for returning thanks. Inthe present instance the hurry with which the book has had tobe written did not allow time enough to do many things whichthe writer would have liked to do. He would have liked tolinger with the old-time enthusiasts who laid the foundationsof the Society, to ha
. History of the United Co-operative Baking Society Ltd., a fifty years' record, 1869-1919. Pte. THOMAS ALSTON, Royal Scots Motor Driver Killed, 23rd July 1916 CORNELL UNIVERSITY LIBRARY 3 1924 092 618 564 PREFACE. The chief advantage of prefaces is the opportunities they giveauthors for making apologies and for returning thanks. Inthe present instance the hurry with which the book has had tobe written did not allow time enough to do many things whichthe writer would have liked to do. He would have liked tolinger with the old-time enthusiasts who laid the foundationsof the Society, to have made himself as familiar as possiblewith the times in which they lived and with the thoughts intheir minds, so that he might be able to present to his readers apicture of their times as they saw them, and of their difficultiesas they had to encounter them. For this there was no time,and so he has had to content himself with telling a plain,unvarnished tale of difficulties met and overcome, of a faithwhich refused to be dismayed, and of a triumph which isvisible to all. Unfortunately, there is no one alive to-day who had anyactive part in the inception of the Society. This increased thedifficulty of pr
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