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Newspaper
Benalla Standard
Location
Benalla, Victoria, Australia
Date
May 09, 1924
Page
3
A collection of short vignettes and jokes spans village life from a centenarian’s remark on vitality to comic courtroom lines, trickery, family quips, and misheard lessons. Tales feature a pithy insistence on living one day at a time, light humor about juries and propriety, and quaint exchanges with neighbors and shopkeepers.
An old notice provides contact prompts likely for business inquiries. It names J. McHwan Carroll as manager and Samuel Cookh as general manager, with instruction to call for information. The fragment implies a corporate contact point without further details.
A family supply of a handy cough curing mixture for cattle bronchitis asthma and whooping cough. Directions on label explain mixing with water to produce a therapeutic solution costing only a small amount per batch. The advertisement touts Heenzo as a superior and affordable option.
A Mrs J Woods of Moone Ponds Vic writes Aug 8 1921 that Warner's Safe Cure Concentrated relieved years of kidney and liver trouble including back pain headaches and digestion issues. She reports rapid improvement after first bottle and full recovery after several bottles, noting doctors diagnosed Bright's disease and endorsing the medicine sold in 6 shillings and 2 shillings 6 pence forms by chemists and stores.
A Parsee visiting London dined with a bishop who tried to convert him. The Parsee, admiring the sun, quips that the sun is splendid and worth seeing. The scene shifts to Uncle Meadows noting London banks have stayed open for decades as Mrs Meadows distrusts them. A grammar lesson elicits a boy’s joke that rouser nouns are singular at the top and plural at the bottom.
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