02 Feb 1917
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Newspaper
Benalla Standard
Location
Benalla, Victoria, Australia
Date
Feb 02, 1917
Page
1
A long reflective piece discusses domestic duties and idealized home life. It blends moral guidance on cleanliness, cheerful hospitality, and family harmony with quotations on industry and motherhood. Mixed in are fragments from other voices and poems about dairymen and social roles.
The largest American flag, believed to be the biggest flat flag, was made for M. E. Mitchell and presented by his wife Captain Mitchell US Army. Measuring 110 feet wide and 9 feet deep, it features thirteen wide red and white stripes and a 12 by 12 foot blue field with white stars. It was shown in Spokane during the National Irrigation Congress and later sent to the Alaska Yukon Pacific Exposition, with cadet escort to Spokane and Seattle.
A venerable contributor to society journals writes in a railway compartment when a gust blows his writing paper under the seat. A pawnbroker enters and discovers him in a stretched position as the stranger jokes about finding his lost work and the old journalist replies with a quip about Methuselah.
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