Curtain School Arithmetic Lesson in Midlands Ends With Quirky Answers
A Midlands curtain school class enacts a playful arithmetic lesson on inches per foot and reindeer uses. A pupil insists there are fourteen inches in a foot, citing a muddled story of feet and inches before leaving with farewell wishes. The scene includes a teacher’s farewell and a pupil’s odd reply about reindeer aiding growth.
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Midlands
Ong
Teicher
Tanid
Toyther
Record Mallive Laat Coupon Offer Missing
A fragmented promotional note requests recipients to trust the offer and send a coupon today. It mentions monthly lists sent free of charge and urges action without providing verifiable details or contact information.
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Truust
Claim of elite connections mocked in mobile chat
In a brief exchange a speaker asserts ties to top families while another retorts with a dismissive remark about a telephone claim. The dialogue hints at social pretensions and modern communication anxiety in a concise exchange.
Influenza Whooping Cough Measles Sweep Australia
Illnesses including influenza whooping cough and measles are widespread in Australia with many cases developing pneumonia and fatal outcomes. The article promotes a home remedy mixture to be added to water for all ages, with an alternative Heenzo Cough Diamonds pastilles.
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Northcott
Archer’s
Baker's
Mills
Northcottle
Pirfoor Falah
Australia
Felton, Grimwade and Co. Pty, Ltd
Melbourne
Warner's Safe Cure touted for kidney and liver relief
The advertisement argues many ailments stem from disordered kidneys and liver and promotes Warner's Safe Cure as a restorative treatment. It claims the medicine expels poisonous matter, relieves pain, and restores organ activity, available in original and cheaper concentrated non alcoholic forms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bagster
Warner
Comic Oddities and Personal Anecdotes From Early News
A fragmentary collection recounts lighthearted incidents from early volunteer days, a Strauss life anecdote inspiring an opera, a tale of a divorce rumor involving a composer, and a shopkeeper joke about a donkey cart. The mixed chatter preserves period humor and social scenes with brief, non-graphic details.
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Richard Strauss
Strauss
Nce
Edige
Hermann Bahr
Debate on Académie power and French words in English speech
A reader raises questions about central authority to absorb foreign terms into English, cites Académie approvals of words like athlete and football, and notes French terms in common use. The piece also includes humorous anecdotes about dictation, mispronunciations, and cultural quirks.
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Arademie Francaise
Academié
Alpenstock
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Donald Mackinnon
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Tate
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Waite
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J McHwan Canrole
Samuel Cooks
Toledo
Berkel
Hobart
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Toledo-Berkel Pty. Ltd
All States
WM. Walling
Manasging
Bryan Bros
Bryan Bro
Colao
Weet Footecray
Via
Alfa-Laval
Pbc
J. Bartram & Son Pty. Ltd
Melboi
Eat
Ronson
Alen
A. P. Sutherland
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Belman
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