07 May 1918
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Newspaper
Benalla Standard
Location
Benalla, Victoria, Australia
Date
May 07, 1918
Page
1
A medical correspondent in the Lancet discusses smoking after meals, noting it can aid digestion in some cases but should be avoided if distention or acidity occurs. It warns against smoking just before meals or before bed, which may cause insomnia, and suggests light food or bicarbonate before sleep.
A humorous "while you wait" wedding tale in an East End London church centers on the bridegroom Charlie Blake. The bride and guests laugh as the groom chews a chrysanthemum stem, winks at the crowd, and misstates names while the vestry signing proceeds with cheeky banter and a lighthearted tone.
A collection of anecdotes about a famed city promoter who rose and fell, his mother’s sharp quips about wealth and horses, and various vignettes from slum life including a guardian child’s bread quest, a teacher’s joke, a Christmas dinner delight, and a husband’s absentmindedness.
The Bridge Street shop announces purchase of the long established G. D. Day hairdressing business. The new owner will meet customers and offers a wide range of goods from dressmaking services to clothing, drapery, hardware, farm supplies, feeds, tools, and household items.
Fragmentary entry notes a Chinese doctor who trained in Canton and practiced in a hospital at Son Nlag City. The text mentions examinations, three complaints, and moderate success with male and female cases, with no extortion implied.
A Harrow incident threads wealth lost to a misnamed heir. A boy named Green, son of a Theobald's Road cheesemonger, helped by opening a gate for a rider and boasts of his wit. Ten years later a false legacy ensued, driving Green to rigid virtue while his father’s roast cheese tale contradicts the claim. The saga links a phony fortune to a family of cheesemongers and a rural gentry.
A brittle comic piece recounts a youth receiving a suit lacking a watch pocket and a pawn-ticket revealing the missing timepiece. Another vignette follows Thomas William pursuing a girl for seven years, learning of a sister’s defense for him with a little girl noting parental witticisms about looks and merit.
A teacher reports playful geography answers from twelve year olds. One student split grammar and geography to declare two zones masculine and feminine with temperate and torrid hints. A comical shop scene ends with a boy fleeing after a baker teases him for stealing a pastry.
A note emphasizes building a simple wooden framework with whitewashed sacking to provide shelter from sun. It suggests soaking the earth under shade with water at dawn to cool soil, improving conditions for hens during heat waves.
A fragmented verse outlines three guiding traits to govern and three types to love, hint, and delight. It names temper, tongue, and conduct alongside courage, gentleness, and affection while noting notions of hint and affectation. It ends with ideals to value and questions life, death, and eternity amid a stray line about cruelty.
A Turkish paper prints Tripolitan proverbs about fate and danger. One says you cannot escape your fate on a horse, another notes maize leads to flour loans, a third warns beating a dog brings sticks, pearls require ocean depths, a soothsayer cannot foretell his own fate, and a cynical line says trusting a woman brings divine punishment.
A jumble of archival fragments recalls a mule incident with Birk the teamster, a mule’s resisted drinking, and injuries to Birk. Interleaved are reflections on Shakespearean questions, a humorous harbor anecdote, and a cow milking note. The text blends rural humor with stray proverbs and voices from a distant column.
The annual Married versus Single cricket game ends with Jones, a married batter, scoring heavily while the rival team schemes a prank to pull him from field. A Norseheaded spectator tenses the crowd as a prank on Mrs Jones unfolds, affecting the match outcome and leaving the audience with a cautionary tale about anger and sport.
A humorous exchange unfolds as an inquisitive interviewer chats with an organist about extemporised music, pipes, and a grand instrument. The organist explains stops, reeds, and the Great Sounding-boars while dodging questions about his salary, ending with the organist storming off.
A respectable man entered a whipy and inquired the price of a glass of whisky. He sampled both drinks, noted the stronger option, offered to mix them, and praised the result. He left saying he would return another day.
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