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Newspaper
Benalla Standard
Location
Benalla, Victoria, Australia
Date
May 08, 1925
Page
6
A string of humorous and rustic sketches unfolds with a country bank cashier refusing to cash a stranger’s cheque, a suitor negotiating marriage with a blunt father, a young sister's forgiveness, a parson’s question to a dying patient, and quips about fidelity and gifts. The anecdotes capture small village wit and social bits with unchanged rural flavor.
A collection of imperfect lines and scenes shows wartime banter and human foibles. A Battery Commander berates a junior officer while a tram passenger forgets his watch. A conductor jokes about a Scotchman and a cocoanut, revealing social quirks amid duty.
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