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Newspaper
Benalla Standard
Location
Benalla, Victoria, Australia
Date
Jun 07, 1901
Page
6
A contemplative essay urges older readers to cultivate youthfulness through sympathy, humor, and gracious conduct. It extols kindness, shared memories, and the value of encouraging others while warning against sham youthfulness and dwelling on ailments.
The text describes Ferdinand de Lesseps using diplomacy and a clever disguise to secure the release of Nazarene prisoners in Egypt during Mehmet Ali’s era. He begins with five prisoners a week and, after pressure from families, persuades the Viceroy to liberate all 412 captives, illustrating practical diplomacy and persistence.
A voyage tale recalls a grieving wife and a quiet English landowning figure, John Brereton, who sacrifices his life to save a child named Ronnie. The narrator recounts the husband’s devotion, Brereton’s selfless act, and the wife’s arrival in Tilbury Dock without fully grasping the cost.
A torn diary passage describes a man awaiting news of his wife after a perilous struggle. A telegram from Phillips, Redruth announces the wife died at ten o clock that day, leaving Breraton to face sudden widowhood as he contemplates his lost child and future.
Poignant verse recalls the departed with gratitude and faith. The speaker reflects on those who were kind brave true and sweet, their memory brightening life, and trusts in God while honoring their enduring love beyond death.
A ragged collection of moral reflections on self restraint and cheerful living mingles with stray local items. It notes a north country cleric seeking an organist footman, a Manchester Cathedral theft confession, Ireland’s eldest resident Mrs Whelan, and a peculiar Forty Shilling Dog custom in Wotton Surrey. A village event tests seven youths in memorizing prayers and Bible verses for a funeral anniversary.
The page compiles anecdotes, quips, and brief moral everyman vignettes. It mixes misprints, political voter apathy, a Moody sermon tale, football match humor, a roadside donkey joke, courtroom laughter at Sanson, and a boy saying he can stay clean of swearing and drinking.
Earthenware sanitaryware from Moxsre John Anlee & Bon Prop y Ltd Bourkes obdet offers a large stock of porcelain enamel baths. The firm claims high quality worth the price and promotes their extensive selection for household fitting needs.
Fragmented recipe text describes soaking and simmering meat in water, thickening liquor, and adding meat. a macaroni pie with anchovy and bread crumb layers. brined vegetables with salt and vinegar. a custard-like mixture with butter eggs sugar and lemon rind baked into squares. and sopa-like dough fritters cooked on a griddle. Contains multiple dish preparations and inconsistent spellings.
A Melbourne catalog lists new hand books and health guides including Autistic Shape bound cloth volumes, The Bodrat of Bad Health by Brown, and The Gentle Art of Good Talking by Beatrice Knollys. Also advertised are The Applause Reciter and Health Exercises volumes with numerous illustrations.
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