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Newspaper
Benalla Standard
Location
Benalla, Victoria, Australia
Date
Jun 08, 1920
Page
1
A gentleman out shooting misses repeatedly until a bare rose near his foot. He fires, then vanishes through a hedge. His companion asks who is at fault, and the hunter-comrade Donald replies that neither the hare nor the gun nor the shooter is to blame, urging him to consider the incident.
A Rome correspondent reports at the Convent of Sai Anne in Aversa near Naples that Sister Josephine died after pneumonia. Nuns pray all night near her coffin, and the body later moves upright, then collapses again as a doctor declares death probable from fright. Dr Andrew Wilson attends a Gilchrist lecture invitation tale ends with the donor revealed.
A visitor gushes over canvases without buying, praising the art as she imagines its value. The painter laments that parting with a beloved work can be impossible, highlighting the emotional bond between creator and creation.
The text explains perfume costs rise due to vast raw material needs from lavender fields in Southern France to jasmine and stephanotis. It notes how flowers yield fragrance to be distilled into spirits, and reflects on weather, ecological cycles, and human idiosyncrasies as a tangential aside to the economics and senses of scent.
A doctor shows a patient a skeletal figure to shock him into paying an old debt. The tale shifts through odd courtroom and social scenes with remarks about brains, debts, and humor from a period newspaper. The piece blends sketches of quirky characters, jokes, and anecdotal vignettes.
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