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Newspaper
Benalla Standard
Location
Benalla, Victoria, Australia
Date
May 22, 1925
Page
4
H. V. McKAY Pty Ltd announces showrooms at 664 Bourke street West Melbourne and stores in Brisbane Sydney Adelaide and Perth for Sunshine Harvester products.
A jumbled mix cites band discipline, industrial workers dancing for doubled output, ragtime's origin on cotton plantations, and a stream of antiquated notes about compasses from China and Greece. It adds brief quips from a Small Boy and a Dolly vignette, ending with a classroom mischief joke.
Directions claim Heenzo supply for coughs and flu. Add water and sweetening to one bottle to equal eight bottles of mixture worth £1. Cost per bottle stated as 2 shillings. For travel, take Heenzo straight from original bottle. sold by chemists and stores.
A new machine combines telephony and recording, acting as a remote operator by taking messages in a subscriber’s absence and delivering a branded greeting. It uses electrical current to record audio on a miniature radio transmitter and resembles a phonograph with cylindrical records. A separate item describes a jewel encrusted map of France, the costliest map in the world, gifted to France by the king during the Franco Russian alliance, with precious stones marking towns and gold inscriptions.
For terms or any other information concerning the company, please call or write. J. McEwan Carroll, Manager, Samuel Cooke, General Manager.
A small boy Robbie habitually ran errands for an old gentleman neighbor. After returning from the third errand the man praised him, but Robbie confessed he could not thank him enough, saying he did not know how to express his gratitude. An insert advert describes wholesale prices for various wines and spirits, including patent medicines and lagers, with dense old-time pricing and alcohol listings.
A Dutchman in a provincial police court sparks laughter with mispronounced words and self defense boasts while facing a minor charge. The exchange with the magistrate reveals cultural and linguistic missteps as bystanders and officers react to the inmate's rambling replies and a brief burglary incident cited by onlookers.
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