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Newspaper
Benalla Standard
Location
Benalla, Victoria, Australia
Date
Jul 04, 1924
Page
3
A garbled exchange features Bridget the mistress upstairs asking about gas in the drawing-room and a new piano for a birthday, with remarks by Diggs and others about a singer wife, a cradle, and a century plant. The disjointed text reads like a comic or stage dialogue with domestic miscommunications and absurdities.
A whimsical exchange where Little Joan remarks the cat is fit to mother its kitten while teasing that the cat would hardly be fit to be a father. The scene plays on gendered roles with a playful, childlike tone.
Dodge Brothers dealers report three straight weekly records with 5694 cars sold in the week ending April 5 and 6376 in the week ending April 19, excluding exports. Factory figures show persistent growth and strong public demand for the new line.
A man ignorant of law entered a court and asked which were the prisoners. A wag pointed to the jury-box and joked that the jurors looked like hangers. The inquirer whispered that he thought eighty and claimed the jury, 'picked men,' deserved hanging.
In a Yorkshire village a coal miner boasted of clever luck when he claimed to have guessed the winner of a race by eyeing a list drawn on a revolving saddle or trough. His mate recalls the tale ended with a duck dinner instead of the imagined winner.
A man gives a lecture on honesty recounting early lapse and return to fix a theft. The tale includes a soldier guarding a post and a comic exchange about dawn orders and halts. A child’s birthday doll request and a jest about hunting tigers in West Africa close the reminiscence.
Epidemics of influenza whooping cough and measles sweep Australia with pneumonia and fatalities. The article urges routine mouth and throat care with a household mixture using Heenzo in sweetened water or Heenzo Cough Diamonds for those preferring pastilles.
A reader reports long standing indigestion and liver trouble improving after using Warner's Safe Concentrated Cure. Mrs Tiernan testifies the medicine relieved pain, restored appetite, and allowed normal eating. Sold by chemists and stores in original six shilling bottles or cheaper non alcoholic concentrate.
A brief notice reports a trial treatment labeled remedy for fits. The source lists names and terms in fragmentary form, with unclear dates or places. Further readable details indicate potential medical or patent references surrounding the remedy.
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