Emigration Drive Sends Women from Britain to Queensland
The Chronicle notes Sir Horace Tozer, Queensland Agent General, ships many single women to the colony. Queensland census shows 57,000 more single men than women, prompting emigration. Working men oppose free emigration, but accept the female emigrants if they are young and fairly good looking, with about fifty percent marrying within two years of arrival.
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The Watch That Won a Jestful Jeweller’s Deal
A London traveler buys a Regent Street watch with a one year guarantee. The watch runs a half minute fast on expiry day. The jeweller offers £10 refund, then £15 to keep the watch, claiming its value. The traveler pays, leaving with the watch and the promise to spread the tale.
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Laughable Fragments Highlight Quirky Local Tales
A mosaic of comic dialogue from ordinary lives, featuring a shy boy named Diana Ken, a mother’s marriage, flirtatious missteps, a misheard claim of gold, a loud lodger, a Tennessee court gag about grammar, and a mother’s essay to a card company.
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Curious Pekin paper’s long lived history
A Chinese paper in Pekin traces a curiously long life from a monthly to a weekly in 1861 and then a daily edition after fifty more years, reflecting a journey through centuries of publication.
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