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Newspaper
Benalla Standard
Location
Benalla, Victoria, Australia
Date
Dec 05, 1902
Page
6
A brief item reports significant losses from bush fires and lightning strikes across the area. The incident affected local properties and prompted warnings, with officials assessing damage and calling for precautionary measures.
Fragmentary OCR excerpt shows a chaotic mix of names, places, and actions. It references a civil matter, ownership issues, and dates, but details are unclear. Key named entities include Lyons, Paula Meaules, Sgt Dems, and Perhin paula. The text hints at a legal proceeding or claim with potential hearings or dates but specifics are unreadable.
The readable snippets list per unit prices for various goods and terms from an old market page, including per pound prices and quantities. Names and places are partially legible, suggesting a dated listing of commodities and vendors with inconsistent OCR.
A Paris Strasbourg era clockmaker labored twenty four years, spending time in confinement, to complete a marvel of horology. The instrument, encased in glass to reveal its intricate movement, shows seconds and minutes, date, weekday, celestial positions, sun and moon, and allegorical figures. It claims to be the most marvellous timepiece, with automata scenes for the four seasons and ages, and a Death figure. the work proceeds as angels strike on the hour and a monk opens the display.
A garbled collection of curiosities and observations from a bygone issue. It cites weather, hair and bone trivia, London rainfall, domestic servants, fire frequency, Moorish hair, onions causing breath, wax figures, and varied notes on cuisine, plants, and biology. The fragmentary text reads like a printer’s squib of miscellaneous knowledge with many garbled phrases.
A broad farm and home column discusses practical farm tools, dog protection for livestock, and health links to comfort. It emphasizes well trained dogs, sturdy home construction, sanitation, and simple measures to improve daily farm life. It also provides recipes and household tips on grafting wax, turnips, dairy utensils, and tomato dishes.
A fragmented reflection on personal discipline and virtue. It urges self control through orderly eating, steadfast resolve, and daily betterment. It cites Kingsley guidance to act with integrity, avoid lies, choose friends cautiously, and pursue lifelong effort to stay youthful in spirit.
An aged medical admonition extols moderation in eating to slow senile decay. It favors light nitrogenous foods such as fruit fish poultry and young mutton and stresses fluids, especially water, to aid digestion and toxin elimination. It recommends adding dilute phosphoric acid to water to improve solubility and elimination of earthy salts.
A dated advertisement urges buyers to insist on John Danks and Son Brasswork for steam valves cocks and fittings. It touts Australian manufacture from Melbourne or Sydney factories, notes high pressures require quality components, and contrasts with inferior imports. It also briefly mentions tortoise shell as a costly, delicate material needing skilled handling.
A garbled fable about a canary and a fish swapping places under heat, then a bishop in Italy explaining contentment through right use of the eyes. The text shifts to Finland’s women workers, an odd note on sensitivity of the tongue tip, and billiard ball polishing using the hobk-bone to detect roughness.
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