Boy Who Became a Great Sculptor
A sea servant boy named Antonio Canova, later famed as a premier sculptor, seizes a chance to carve a butter lion for a banquet in Venice. Guests praise the temporary work, the host funds his studies, and Canova remains humble and diligent, rising to become one of history’s greatest sculptors.
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Sienor Ballero
France
Tate
Sam Antonio Canova
Pisano
Antonio
Venice
T Ux
Signor Fallera
Li Antonio
Canova
A Marauder's Undoing in Midland House
A Midland town house burglary ends when a lady's maid recalls an overheard boast about a stolen figure. She alerts a policeman, leading to the arrest of two men who were the long-sought burglars and recovered Jewellery.
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Midland
Onion porridge cures cold misadventure tale
A northern England commercial traveller falls ill with a severe cold while staying as a guest. His landlady, a sympathetic widow, serves onion porridge she believes will shift his cold. Later she jokes about his progress as he reveals he has placed the porridge on his chest, causing comic confusion.
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England
Inuwire
Dog's Sympathy and Humanity Witnessed by Rescue Dog
A dog spared a mercy to a drowned cat after cruel men beat and dragged it to water. The animal carried the injured cat to its quarters, prepared a bed, licked and guarded it, attracting the housefolk to feed the cat until recovery. The act is hailed as remarkable canine humanity.
Lord Russell of Killowen and a courtroom quip about bigamy
The passage recalls Lord Russell of Killowen, a witty Irish barrister, recounting a courtroom remark about the extreme penalty for bigamy. It includes snippets of banter from legal proceedings and a farcical exchange about calling a steam-roller operator a chauffeur.
Wise Utterances for Everyday Living
A collection of maxims on manners, self control, and social wit. The quotes cover honesty, restraint, ambition, and the quirks of human behavior, urging practical wisdom and temper in public life.
Miscellaneous curiosities and tidbits from varied worlds
A collage of notes on hypnosis crime trends and world affairs. It cites blue-eyed great men, wireless schooling in London, and the value of Inco Ton ton. It mentions Oxford, Cambridge, and King's College as hosts for Chinese professorships, and notes broad advertising in Broadway. It also covers sapient sundry tips from semaphore origins to fireplace cleaning and lemon storage.
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Belgium
Inco
Ton
London
Plane
Oxford
Cambridge
King’s College
Broadway
New York
Pompeii
Siberia
Paris
Madrid
Sweden
Curio Catalog of Garden Seeds and Supplies in Melbourne Prices
A garbled listing from a Melbourne catalog enumerates garden seeds lime cement and roofing iron along with farm goods such as wool bales soap petroleum and various hardware items. It advertises agents for Australian Chemical and Explo cvee Co. manures sewing machines staves and loans, noting goods sold for cash.
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Black Hare
Reid
Rotherame
E.P
Ostcutts
Australian Chemical and Explocvee Co
Standard
Orion
New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co
Carpenter and Joiner Promoted in Benalla District
Well known in Benalla and district a first class carpenter and joiner offers to prepare and carry out all work entrusted to him. Prices are reasonable. Address given as Addrose Wave Street Baxaba Wist.
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Benalla
Istrict
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Thomas Evans
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A. M‘lean
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Ryan
Benalla West
Treas
James Lamsey
Grainger Austral House
Canton
China
Lan Ning City
W. G& Abbott
Paintas and Trimmer
Wesd
W. G. Abbott
Bridge-stroos
John Clark Nunn
Danka’ Famon Billabong
Victor Say
Seedeman
Town & District
Stata
Benalla Ad
Hearne
W. G. Hearne & Co. Ltd
Geelong, Victoria
Sydnor,5.w
Wellington, NZ
Henry Vallender Draper
Nunn ST
Bird
H. G. Geeyarion
Ranier
Troumeringy
Brilgouleeny
Blacksm Oh Warelwright General Engineering
John M'Donald
Sion
WOOL
Anus
Sagkers
Domal Saleq
WEW Zealand Loan & Mergantile
Gomipany Limited Mead Oftes
Bach
Everigrom
Srelx
Dalgety
Newmarket Wool
Dalgety and Co. Ltd
Schwie
Melbourne
Quibell
Kemp
Nobel
Glasgow
Chilworth
Bourke Street
Agen
Blic
H. G. Williams
Agosh
Sodestrum
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