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Newspaper
Benalla Standard
Location
Benalla, Victoria, Australia
Date
Feb 01, 1918
Page
6
A satirical broadside titled Matrimonial Maxims presents a rapid fire dialogue on marriage's foibles. Characters poke at wives, husbands, lovers, and social norms with comic commentary and playful quips. The piece mixes moralizing bits with farcical courtroom and domestic banter, ending with a lighthearted riddle about an egg and garden.
A fragmentary tale by Lyon Mearson centers on a man who plans an engagement with a woman. He sees marriage as the only correct path, but a quarrel and fear of confessing create tension. In the end a telegram reveals the woman eloped, leaving him heartbroken and questioning feminine fidelity.
An elderly aunt recalls a bygone era as a social gathering unfolds with talk of tableaux nights. The scene shifts to a tense courtroom moment where a burglar wife testifies about her marriage to a criminal, revealing a blunt plan by a weary chooser. A stray culinary tip on coffee preparation adds a domestic aside.
An advertisement extols Warner's Safe Cure as a remedy for diseases blamed on blood and biliary poisons. It claims kidney and liver restoration reduces pain from rheumatism gout backache indigestion and related ailments. The copy urges readers to try the product, noting availability in 4 shillings per bottle or cheaper concentrated form.
An awkward scene unfolds at a town gathering as a polite guest mishears a host and is politely corrected. A pair of speakers exchange barbs about marriage and status while a cryptic remark about grand jars and ants in a clover circle closes the fragment. The text shows garbled dialogue and surreal non sequiturs.
Stock, share and wheat scrip brokers operated from 983 Collins Street Melbourne. Members of the Melbourne Stock Exchange, with wires to Wardanko Exebanke Melbourne.
A notice seeks consignments of thoroughly dry high quality wattle bark in black or golden varieties. The seller offers the highest market price and requests delivery to Bell Station for end cover with tarpaulin, emphasizing quality and prompt payment.
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