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Newspaper
Benalla Standard
Location
Benalla, Victoria, Australia
Date
Aug 02, 1918
Page
6
A fragmented OCR style note describes a meeting or event involving local figures and a headowner. The text is garbled with misspellings but hints at a planned gathering or item related to a yearned work or trade. The readable names are scarce. no clear dates or places emerge.
A fragment survey of a tearoom describes male staff predominance and the urge for better service. The narrator criticizes dull seating and inconsistent tea quality, arguing that good treatment and ambiance attract repeat patrons, urging improvement in staff attentiveness and presentation.
A wartime service week featured diverse denominations represented at a church gathering. Attendees included many men discussing draft parity and solidarity, with remarks by Roy Moore and others as music and fellowship filled the evening.
The poem laments a private's longing for home and his Little Pal o Mine as storms, war, and dampness colore a distant world. It recalls hunger, trench hardship, and fallen comrades, urging reunion when peace returns, framed by a New York Herald note.
The Lancet notes the importance of patient warmth and describes electric mattresses used at Tre tonr Crippies Hospital in Alton England. Two wards use the specialized mattress with a controlled heating element, yielding safer, more convenient warmth and saving about three hours of labor per day per ward compared with hot water bottles.
A note on Cassell's Storyteller describing its value this time as scarce and welcome with stories and a complete novel. early reminder to order due to paper shortages. Also includes wholesale meat price report for week ending July 25 1915 from Metropolitan Meat Market and a brief wartime salute poem fragment.
An old advertisement touts AMBNZO as a cough remedy making a pint of mix for 2 shillings, with post options. It also promotes Hean’s Tonic Nerve Nuts claiming to restore nerve health and vitality, priced at 4 shillings for a box of six.
An advertisement promotes windmills as the best on the market, claiming long service life and automatic lubrication for efficient operation. It invites readers to request catalogs and notes user testimonials, with locations NBHR and Colma referenced in a garbled closing line.
A meditation on personal pain and isolation cites common ailments and urges Warner's Safe Cure for kidney and liver relief. The ad-like piece touts the medicine, claiming long use and wide availability in original five shilling bottles and cheaper two shilling sixpence concentrated form.
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