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Newspaper
Benalla Standard
Location
Benalla, Victoria, Australia
Date
May 16, 1924
Page
4
An OCR fragment advertises poultry buying by Hyland's, claiming higher prices and daily posted price lists. It mentions Byland's buying gockerels ducks turkeys and notes no commission or carriage charges. The snippet includes place indicators likely Melbourne and Frinders 87.
A dish of comic snippets unfolds from a social gathering. A maid discovers a silver teaspoon in a guest’s pocket after a lively evening, a manager pays lavishly for a dinner, and patrons banter about identities and seating arrangements. Jests cover a Welsh tug, a doctor and son exchange questions, and a quip about cannibals haunts the mood.
The notice lists contact points at Read Office 388 Collins Melbourne and offices in Sydney and Brishare. It instructs to call or write for any war termy or related information. Management contacts J McHwan Carroll as Manager and Samuel Cooke as General Manager.
A garbled jumble of short vignettes and jokes trails from a bygone era. It includes a whispered misadventure at a railway platform, mock market banter about weigh scales and turkey jokes, plus parrot humor and a weary Willin anecdote about work. The scattered pieces read like a rough page of humorous vignettes with no single unifying event.
A historic ad-like note touts Heenzo Cough Mixture as a cheap, fast-acting remedy for coughs colds and sore throats. It claims adding HWENZO to sweetened water creates superior cough medicine sold at a song and for far less than ordinary bottles.
The text urges Warner's Sate Cure to treat pain from ailments like rheumatism gout neuralgia and indigestion by aiding kidney and liver function. It claims the remedy removes urinary and biliary poisons, relieving pain as these poisons are eliminated. Sold by chemists and storekeepers in both concentrated and non alcohol forms with prices noted.
A humorous stitched scene unfolds with a teasing mistress warning Bridget about not breaking dishes while a police inspector questions a suspect with odd nationality and business replies. A golfer and a passerby argue as a child asks for Uncle John to kiss and wash.
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