19 Feb 1918
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Newspaper
Benalla Standard
Location
Benalla, Victoria, Australia
Date
Feb 19, 1918
Page
1
A fragment depicts two speakers clashing over ranking and value while a grave smile from a young girl hints at a moral lesson. The exchange centers on pride and fairness, ending with a caution about parting ways.
A circulating tale claims the Empress of Russia nurses her own infant in a humble moment. An English illustrated plate of the scene prompted scrutiny by Russian censors and officials to determine if the portrayal was acceptable. The Empress reportedly approved the depiction, with the Czar’s confirmation following.
A bridge on a rugged American railway section collapsed into a raging river at midnight. A watchman, toward the mountains, sprang into the flood to signal an eastbound express and then swam back and forth to rescue an assisting westbound excursion train carrying four hundred journalists. His daring action saved perhaps a thousand lives.
A Canadian settler tied a bell to a wolf to clear his wood of wolves by guiding them toward his flock. Sheep learned the bell sound and followed last year's companion, mistaking the wolf for a safer partner. The farmer halted the experiment to avoid more losses.
The piece parodies civic distrust with lines railing at officials and praising liberty while hinting at taxation. It shifts to a crude medical aside describing compression and blood flow effects from waist confinement and liberal blood supply, mixing political wit with medical speculation.
Fragmented public notice text lists various names, locations, and items with incomplete phrases. It references Ryan Camp Store Benalla West, clothing items, orders, measures, and several personal names, suggesting a pile of scattered notices and advertisements from a historical page.
A tale from the orphanage recalls Me Spurgeon and a boy who earned a sixpence. Two lads shown different fates after a simple act of kindness: one saved, one squandered. The piece also reflects on character formation and the moral duty to aid the young.
A garbled newspaper page recounts humorous vignettes and social snippets featuring married couples, theater anecdotes, and a heckled wedding scene. It includes quips about drink, romance, and a theater anecdote about Lord Dundreary in Our American Cousin, with Sothern sharing tales of Miss Keene.
A reflective piece on virtue and progress urges love as the motive for happiness, warns against inaction, and calls for steady self-reliance and cheerful labor. It argues the mind needs constant motion like a compass needle, and condemns rash judgments and social stinginess.
The obituary notes W P Monspenny died before finishing his Hand of Lord Beaconsfield. It cites Balzac Balzac and others as examples of unfinished work. It also mentions Cuyler Hamerton’s paralysis and death preventing completion of decades of research and writings.
An essay style humor piece plays on heads as hat bases and as slang for brains. It riffs on head names like caput nob and attic while joking about hair and wigs, intellect, and social maturity with comic misfires and misprints.
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