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Newspaper
Benalla Standard
Location
Benalla, Victoria, Australia
Date
Jul 06, 1906
Page
1
This article outlines essential poultry care during moulting, including housing, separation of sexes, cleaning roosts, vermin control, feed provisions such as grit and green fodder, and general farm hygiene. It stresses avoiding stress, maintaining natural conditions, and preventing disease from dirty quarters.
Practices vary in farming but most agree pigs should be fed three times a day. Some keep one meal off to show restraint, yet hogs have small stomachs and need constant filling. It is not clear if constant feeding yields enough gains to justify the attention required.
A parish curate with plain looks is urged to collect for an object during a sermon, prompting uneasy smiles from some. A historic duel between Shott and Nott is recounted with uncertain testimony and a warning that steady restraint yields the day’s work.
Villagers describe a thin-faced Englishman who was seen in daytime tending a garden and building a courtyard. M Kilon and M Bilon discuss Ruskin as a thinker who merged brain and hand work, influencing his Oxford students and a local charity scheme involving a donkey and a dining woman.
Andrew Carnegie urged young men to do their duty and a little more. He contrasted three classes of effort and praised Paderewski for doing more, arguing the extra effort separates success from mere duty. He warned against being cheated out of success by those who do less.
In a nameless town a mayor faced a disorderly night when a jailed potato plotter toppled from the mayor’s unused prison. A horse and cart crashed into the disturbance as potatoes tumbled from a window to the tune of a rowdy song. The tale frames a light local misadventure with royal mockery and a wooden leg remark.
In a Scottish town near Perth, Jamie McKinlay and Geordie Rose, two respected kirk elders, clash in a rivalry as they walk to inter the deceased. The minister engages Geordie at the front, Jamie sulks in back, and a follower jokes that Geordie will push forward, even to the hearse if possible.
The article argues housewives should cultivate at least one charity or outside interest beyond domestic duties. A hobby of purpose keeps a woman lively, witty, and engaged, delaying decline and preserving youth by feeding the mind and spirit with ongoing pursuits.
Fragmentary tale shows Mabel's restless moment in a crowded setting, asking for something from her father and mother while others react. Billy Malonn’s support for a joke lands in Amavion Street, as a character named Tim Mullis offers a written endorsement. Ancestors debate lineage, noting Monrotta and Porgy as offspring.
A reflective piece on how people overestimate their self mastery and underestimate habits. It warns that thinking one is immune to bad tendencies fosters complacency and harm, while obstinacy and frugality myths drain affection, respect, and happiness in homes.
An eyewitness account describes how the poem The Bells came to be, detailing Be A Poos inspiration and the author’s extended writing session. The anecdote centers on the author’s reluctance, a companion, and the decisive moment when the piece took shape by replacing a name and refining a stanza.
A fragmentary tale centers on Sir John Millaig, a famed poet, as he recalls a vivid evening at a gathering. A pretty girl performs a song, prompts a bold question about a certain academy, and leads to an awkward, confounding moment that unsettles the participants and raises questions of propriety and embarrassment.
The text reflects a fragmented wartime era discussion about certificates of loyalty or service, mentions pursues toJuly events, and references emigration or displacement. It cites people named Reimar Jarré, Holland, and Norenvart, with scattered remarks on schooling, treatment of people, and international tensions. The passage reads like an OCR mishmash of a report or debate with unclear context and inconsistent names.
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