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Newspaper
Benalla Standard
Location
Benalla, Victoria, Australia
Date
Mar 11, 1919
Page
1
A historical note recounts how Bank of England notes issued over forty years ago remain collectible after accidents. Some notes survived fires, shipwrecks, and even a Chicago fire, with others retrieved from water or pulp and later paid after careful verification.
A sixteen year old girl on a royal steamship earned leniency and a free voyage home after stowing away, while other female stowaways faced harsher penalties. Cardiff and Liverpool cases show a range of outcomes from imprisonment to death, with several noted stowaway records including Lizzie Poulton and long voyages.
A prisoner sentenced not to penal servitude but to marriage after attempting to kill the prosecutrix. The couple left the court arm in arm, a practice at times arranged by magistrates and questioned by reformers. Some clergymen endorse it, others condemn it as impractical. The piece compares outcomes with ordinary marriages and notes harsh living conditions.
In a Scottish town KW Fintcher is noted for his quaint Parish life. He meets a debtor who pays after a brief exchange about a fat dog. The gentleman compliments the dog and Sandy receives his money the next day. The tale underscores thrift and local wit in a terse, humorous exchange.
A dated discussion contrasts the self-reliant woman with the helpless type. It argues the former can be a good wife and friend, while the latter burdens a husband, surrenders initiative, and risks becoming a neglected, unknown quantity as society shifts.
A Soviet era escape attempt by Gershani and supporters used a cabbage barrel as a hiding place in a Siberian prison. They planned to emerge from a disguised barrel during a stable inspection, with a partner to aid if discovered, hoping to reach Japan and then America.
A Royal Society London discussion warns the tseisa fly could threaten India and global health. The bite causes deadly sleeping sickness with no cure, killing tens of thousands in Africa and likely to affect millions more as trade routes expand.
A fragmented list of diverse goods and suppliers including men and boys clothing, drapery items, prints, shoes, ribbons, suits, wiring materials, garden seeds, horse gear, paints, lime, cement, oils, window fittings, tools, furniture hardware, stoves, sewing machines, and various farm and industrial products. Mentions Melbourne prices, Australian Chemical and Eya oved Oo, and a mercantile agency.
A flood of testimonials from many patients praising Dr. Ack Hing, an herbalist, for curing or alleviating a range of ailments from vision problems and paralysis to chronic pain and diphtheria. The letters name numerous locations such as Maryborough, Victoria, Ararat, Mildura, and Golden Square, with several individuals vouching for rapid improvement after his herbal remedies. The messages express gratitude and urge others with similar conditions to seek his care.
In a market town a sturdy old farm laborer stood as a witness in a police case. The clerk commanded him to kiss the book after the oath, prompting the aggrieved man to insist he has never kissed any woman in forty years and declines to start now.
An Indy orator argues women feel deeper than men, facing a chorus of women denying the claim. He asks if women are inferior, provoking a male audience member to quip about bald husbands as he exits, giving a lively street corner clash.
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