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Newspaper
Benalla Standard
Location
Benalla, Victoria, Australia
Date
Jun 26, 1906
Page
1
Detailed notes on building brooders, feeding, and care for day old chicks. Instructions cover temperature controls, sand on the floor, thermometer placement, lighting, water systems, feeding stages, and housing setups. Includes warnings on water quality and space management for multiple brooder groups.
A well known physician offers self help for heart palpitations indigestion toothache and bunions. Remedies include a small portion of turkey rhubarb after meals hot vinegar for toothache lemon on corns and buns and a morning routine of exercise and water abstinence. Also instructions for influenza remedies peppermint steam splinter extraction and general home care.
An old astrology note links birth month to temperament and life events. It suggests January births become prudent and industrious, February hopeful. March careless, April quarrelsome. May strong but flighty. June charming and social. July generous and restless. August practical but vain. September lively but unlucky. October balanced. November liberal. December fond of novelty and extravagant.
A fragmented note discusses mothers giving children many toys and urges restraint. It contrasts past times when a child had fewer playthings with today’s abundance. Emphasizes teaching order and system in childhood over excess.
A cryptic note traces the origin of the word grotesque to a muddled line about Charlie Lover and Sydney Mints. It references a headache of a phrase and vague distended imagery relating to Water Fail and Night. The fragmentary text suggests inquiry into the etymology but provides no clear evidence or conclusion.
A fragmentary discussion notes the rise of mechanization in industry. It cites gains in output from machines versus hand labor, with examples from weaving pottery tool making and watch production, and remarks on the social impact of automation on workers.
A blind entrepreneur in San Venanessen runs a large shop with a comprehensive stock and a peg and nail filing system for records. He serves customers, handles accounts by memory, and even crafts tools and an electrical lighter, showcasing remarkable mechanical skill and inventor’s ingenuity despite his disability.
A preacher praises heroism as a spark kindled at home and blown to flame by public acts. He argues noble acts begin privately in the household and only afterward reach the world, honoring the quiet virtue that prepares public courage.
A humorous exchange captures a tall Benedict meeting an old hand as they joke about drawers and personal space. Oly Brown challenges the idea of fair ownership of a chest of drawers with a playful argument about a long street full of drawers and what one might keep under the bed.
A fragmented recounts a bizarre schoolroom scene where a boy recalls a monkey on a stick and a child mispronounces words. The text mixes misread phrases about a crying child and a monkey demonstration with a curious boy asking questions and a teacher addressing discipline.
A scattered, typo-filled essay blends notions of natural selection with social and technological topics. It mentions corns, charity, truism about progress, artificial eyes, and the panther, interspersed with incomplete reflections on duty, progress, and improvement.
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