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Newspaper
Benalla Standard
Location
Benalla, Victoria, Australia
Date
Dec 23, 1902
Page
6
An excerpt discusses belief in limited mental powers and clairvoyant like forecasts, then reviews Hobby Land a book by EK W Cole praising hobbies as healthier and more profitable than idle work. It argues hobbies guide education and occupation and cites varied human abilities.
Fragmentary ad copy urges readers to contact John Danks and Son Prop Ltd in Melbourne and Sydney about centrifugal pumps. It promises quotes for a complete plant and asks for particulars. The noisy text includes garbled phrases and an apparent product pitch with no clear date or context.
Fragmented catalog style notice offering wines and spirits with odd phrasing, listing quantities and prices in a garbled OCR fragment. Mentions Ansonren Casi of dle Coleralgd Wines aml Spirit and various brands, with Xmas trade and holiday stock references.
A garbled notice describes Luck and Laziness as figures near a cottingy door. A sleepy cat on a lap and a tired worker are referenced, with muffled lines about work, mending, and a day unfolding at a doorway. The text reads like a fragment from a poem or story with repeated, unclear phrases.
The text surveys historical week and year divisions across cultures. It cites Egyptian ten day weeks near a ten month year, mentions Roman and Jewish schemes, and notes varied calendars with months, perings, and cycles spanning decades and centuries. It highlights how different civilizations aligned weeks, months, and years differently.
A cryptic consignment arrived at an Irish port bound for San Francisco. The cargo reportedly included turf pieces representing each Irish county, sealed to certify their origin and arranged as a map of Ireland. The mishmash of language hints at a curious but crafted gift, framed by a priest and local certification.
A cautious voice urges young men to seek roles that fit their abilities and to prepare rigorously for advancement. It argues success comes from authentic strength, not conventional bravado, and notes a journalist’s career turn as an example of timely self‑assessment and qualification.
Fragmentary religious verse urges that something good be said over sorrow. The speaker appeals to mercy, steadfast hope, and the example of sacrifice to comfort the faithful and honor virtue in the face of disgrace and trial.
The text surveys varied climates across countries and regions noting Alaska’s extreme yet strikingly pleasant climate, the generally temperate Eastern States with occasional heat and cold waves, highland differences in the West, bitter northern winters with hot summers along the Canadian border, and consistently warm conditions in Southern California. It also touches on media ideas like gossip and mentions a few social observations about admiration and hair color.
Prominent Victoria firm Swallow and Ariell operates vast Melbourne Park works and regional mills at Morvap na Kyairam and Mildura. The company produces biscuits cakes puddings jellies and canned fruits and vegetables for market with strong demand and a wide range of products including beef extract and digestive meat bouillon and a veterinary tonic called Bon wari. The output emphasizes quality and variety with extensive processing export reach and a long heritage in food manufacture.
A nostalgic verse passage celebrates Freckles Show Shoe as a sunny, open air emblem. It describes freckles on her nose and fingers, nature imagery of dandelions and apple trees, and poems about healthful outdoor play that shape youth and schooling. The piece weaves memory into a childlike ode to sunlit innocence.
A veteran artist argues that constant practice is essential for mastery, insisting that only after years of toil can a musician approach true artistic perfection. He warns that stopping work leads to stagnation and decline, while dedication unlocks refined technique and lasting laurels.
The text discusses how explosives differ in effects including immediate destruction of objects and structures. It cites gunpowder as slower and less decisive than dynamite, and compares hypothetical uses by historical figures to illustrate explosive behavior and rapid energy release in air and on surfaces.
A fragmented meditation discusses unusual sympathetic phenomena and bodily responses tied to mental effort. The text sketchily explores how logs are never observed while people listen, yet shifts to consider limb movements and the influence of posture on thought, ending with a prompt to solve the postlompny question about the logs and their governing form of sympathy.
Government agronomist notes women’s experiments with Hasell's Gypsum at Yarrawonga show lime addition raising yields on Carlisle Willis and Grogan plots. One bushel gain at Carlisle and Grogan, over two bushels at Willis. warns against mixing burnt lime with superphosphate but advocates lime with copper phosphate as Gypsum. Bull details and prices from H. Unwell, Queen Street, Motobarne.
A touching tale recounts Washington’s farewell visit to his aged mother at Mount Vernon before his presidency. Mrs. Washington, over eighty and ill, blesses him as he departs for Virginia to form the new government, then dies the following August at Fredericksburg. An aside notes seaweed scent in the Caspian region and its distant perfume.
A dated description observes children at play noting girls struggle to throw due to shoulder structure and rigid arms. It contrasts girls' top spinning with boys who use shoulder and wrist motion, claiming collar bone differences hinder girls from throwing and spinning tops properly.
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