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Newspaper
Benalla Standard
Location
Benalla, Victoria, Australia
Date
Aug 14, 1925
Page
4
A motorist, lost on a rural lane, asks a pedestrian for directions. The pedestrian guides him into the car and then reveals a trick by directing the driver in the wrong direction and promising to show the rest of the way from back in the opposite direction. The motorist protests to avoid hurting feelings.
A long OCR fragment blends humorous exchanges and biographical notes. It references Nicolas Joseph Cugnot, steam vehicle pioneer born February 26 two centuries ago, describes his prototype and preservation, and weaves in comic vignettes about hotel life, poets, monks, and street talk. The piece also notes musty jokes about labor, art students, and a gunpowder factory remark.
To obtain a family supply of finest allied medicine for coughs colds croup and bron chitis add water and sweetening to a bottle of Heenzo and you have the equal of eight bottles of mixture worth £1 Heenzo costs only 2/ For convenience when travelling take Heenzo straight from original bottle all chemists and stores.
In a rural setting a novice district visitor, Mrs Spender, joins a summer schedule by calling on an elderly resident living alone. The dame directs a simple, intimate exchange asking for a brief reading of poetry and a farewell line, highlighting small community acts.
The American Cutler explains selecting a good pocket knife or razor is an art known to a few. Old rules say better polished blades come from high-grade steel, not inferior. The voice of the blade speaks if you touch it lightly, revealing differences in steel and tuning.
A man in a hotel dining room whispered to a friend asking how far he would have gone if called back. The friend replied loudly that he would not lend £5, claiming he had not got it and would not lend until repaid from two months ago. The friend vows not to answer such calls again in public.
A tale of a man seeking a loan from a bank manager who reveals a glass eye. The borrower accurately identifies the left eye as glass, noting it was more sympathetic. In the crowd, a peddler touts his medicines and claims twenty years of sales with no complaints as a crowd replies to the demand for proofs.
Islands erupt or vanish due to earthquakes and volcanic activity reshaping seas. A Pacific grotto near Tokyo rose 96 feet, then subsided to twenty five fathoms as vegetation failed to anchor it. Some rising islets host colonies while others disappear, unsettling chart makers and navigators. A village verger quips about a mixed choir, highlighting local humor amid sea changes.
The article traces waterpower history from Egyptian waterwheels to the modern turbine, noting France as the source of the turbine and global potential estimated at 200 million horsepower with only about 26 million harnessed. It includes odd anecdotes about daily routines and a lazy dog, illustrating humor in miscellaneous observations.
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