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Newspaper
Benalla Standard
Location
Benalla, Victoria, Australia
Date
May 28, 1909
Page
6
Railton Bros at 7 Swanton Street and Pinks Buildings Melbourne advertise a wide selection of fruit trees and flower seedlings. The notice lists Prunus varieties, apples, pears, and other fruit stock with prices and quantities, emphasizing quality nursery stock and ready availability.
A jumble of handwritten notes refers to food items, names, and measurements with unclear context. Several fragments mention bread, coffee, and cakes, alongside probable references to people and places, but the meaning remains obscured. The text reads like a scattered personal record with stray lines about meals and domestic items.
An OCR fragment discusses water dropping and its effects on structures and surroundings. It mentions Colonel Frod Turnaby in Vienna, a test about water, and references to various names and places, but the text is garbled and lacks coherent narrative or verifiable events.
A report claims a New York based fashion group planned a large import conspiracy. Police say 58,000 luxury gowns disappeared amid a wholesale scheme to evade duties, though officials offer no direct evidence of a fraud scheme. Some dressmakers allegedly fled the country to escape penalties.
A highly corrupted OCR page blends personal musings, unclear social chat, and a notice from Nobel's Fxylonives Co. Ltd advertising land clearing demonstrations in Victoria over several months. The text mixes folklore, genealogical doubt, and a formal business notice about demonstrations and agency.
The New York area mourns the death of Anello Basso a famed sandwich maker known for his Basao sandwiches. From a single small shop he built a long running business feeding crowds up to sixteen hours daily, earning about 2100,000 in wealth while supplying hearty meals to families and workers. His trade drew patrons from afar as he ran a remarkable food stall legacy and influenced street food culture for decades in Manhattan.
A dense treatise tracing blushing from Darwin to modern psychology, arguing that facial redness arises from mind driven by social evaluation. It links blush to fear of appearance, links pride in moral conduct, and contrasts blush with anger, noting blushing as a mental process rooted in personal approval and admiration.
The article traces the origin of the term Sublime Porte to the Ottoman court. It notes Xenophon and the Ten Thousand tale of Persian ministers near the king’s gates, then explains how Turkish rulers after Constantinople used the Porte as the second palace court and the place where state business and audiences occurred, becoming the highest authority.
Mr Packer of Glebe commends Sunlight Oil Cake for horses noting improved look and smoother movement after feeding one hundredweight and starting a second. Lever Brothers Sydney offers booklet How to use Sunlight Oil Cake. Also advertised are失 inexpensive conjuring apparatus and Parlor Magic book from Union Company Melbourne to ease winter amusements.
The readable fragments discuss a Dorset farm and employment, a warning against giving unsolicited agricultural advice, a remark about curiosity and modesty, and a historical note that fireworks began in Europe in Florence around 360. It also mentions eight million tunnels in Britain and a total cost near £6,500,000.
Fragmentary narration describes a traveler from Bagdad via El Jot to Tamamnenms in North ApabI. The account details a meeting with an Emir and a slave Dati who warns the group the Emir will not take their gate or money, and notes a lengthy five day stay with continual subversion, poor prospects, and loss of valuables.
Detectives trailing acrobat Miguel Androval from a traveling circus observed a trained monkey exit Androval's coat pocket and seize several rings in a Paris shop. Under police escort he admitted the tricks, and the acrobat was shortly arrested after the animal acted as thief.
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