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Newspaper
Bathurst Daily Argus
Location
Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Jun 19, 1909
Page
3
A 1900s style recipe item detailing a fruit jelly mould from canned apricots with sugar and gelatine, lemon juice and wine, then a rice pudding mould with milk and gelatine, whipped cream, and a serving suggestion with jam or raisin glaze. Includes method steps, moulding and serving notes for two dishes.
Instructions for washing heavy blankets with soap borax ammonia and tepid water, including soaking and air drying. Also a dandelion beer recipe with dandelion root, sugar ginger lemon juice, cream, tamar, yeast, bottled and cooled. Notes on nettles as a substitute and liver digestion benefits.
Open book at random and pick a word in the first ten lines. Mark the tenth word from line end. Double page number and multiply the sum by five. Add twenty then add the chosen line number and five. Multiply by ten then add the word position in the line. Subtract two hundred fifty to reveal unit column, ten column, and page number. A note says the arithmetic has no difficulty if selections are accurate.
Princess Louise with the Duke of Argyll opens the Jubilee Congress of District Nursing in Central Hall Liverpool on May 13. She delivers a message from Queen Alexandra praising women’s work and their unique role, notes some women try to be like men, and accepts a bound copy of the Congress program after reading several papers.
Fragmentary notes quote a preacher denying affiliation with the army of the Lord and stressing Baptist identity. The jagged OCR leaves unclear names and exact affiliations but centers on religious dispute and allegiance to a church group.
An advertisement cites community reliance on Doan's Backache Kidney Pills with testimonials from Dean Buckache and Matthew Gleeson praising relief from backache and kidney discomfort. It promotes the pills as proven by time and merit and lists purchase details from Foster-McLean in Sydney.
William J. Poy aged twenty five, a labourer, was hanged at Swansea Gaol for the murder of Mary Ann Rees at Ynysfach coke ovens Merthyr. He smoked a cigarette on the way to the scaffold, wore fine clothes, and his sister received a penitent letter before the line was cast. The executioner was Henry Pierpoint, assisted by Thomas Ellis, with four reporters present.
Baron Brunnow recounts a tale of the French Ambassador fearing attending the Duke of Wellington funeral at St Pauls due to past injuries to France. The Russian envoy counsels attendance since the Duke is dead, joking that only a resurrection would warrant refusal.
An incident at an Italian port during King Edward’s landing saw the carpet from the landing to the carriage too short. An Italian flag extended the pathway and the king paused to salute the national emblem. The crowd cheered as he did so.
A visitor asks for Uno Tuy at the house as Horsemald, who has just received a notice, responds that the mistress is present but not in a courteous mood.
An incident involving the German Emperor and artist Adolf von Menzel reveals a tense moment over a caricature of President Roosevelt. The American legation attache had shown the drawing, provoking the Kaiser to rebuke the diplomat and avert a diplomatic incident. The attache was reassigned shortly after.
A New Orleans man recalls a Rothschilds agent who refused to sell cotton holdings on a promised season. The agent waited four days, netting forty thousand dollars for his firm. Upon reporting the profit, the Rothschilds sent back the money with a cold note calling the gain the agent’s, not theirs.
An analysis of ancient Egypt describing the Hyksos as a semi nomadic people whose kings built a world empire. It notes uncertainty over their origin Syrian or Arabian and portrays them as fierce but lacking a native culture. Their rulers valued military skill and organization.
An uneven, garbled excerpt mentions ancient sailors or doms of the seas, wealth and luxury, and a revival of Egyptian forces that hurled them back. The text seems to reference the Quarterly Review with antiquated diction and incomplete phrasing, creating a fragmentary historical note.
A quirky historical note surveys hotel regulations and morals. It cites Grand Hotel rooms with art on walls and strict rules about guests, servants, and cohabitation. The text references translations from French and outlines bans on self outside dressing areas and bed sharing among rooms.
A Birmingham woman long used paper bags as bustles. Her son blew a bag full of wind and tied it, causing a loud pop in church. The minister paused, the husband glanced aghast, and the incident left the couple blushing as the bag burst revealed from the behavior of boys.
A historical note claims certain noises lure snakes, such as mowing sounds, causing cobras to approach. It asserts that on an Indian grass farm, up to 120 cobras were killed in six months, the heads being chopped by machines.
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