09 Nov 1915
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Newspaper
Benalla Standard
Location
Benalla, Victoria, Australia
Date
Nov 09, 1915
Page
1
A historical agriculture article discusses draught horses focusing on breeding profitability versus lighter breeds. It covers essential traits like feet, legs, weight, body, and action, and notes 1700 pounds as a practical draught horse minimum. It also gives winter rations for work horses and stresses proper stabling and care for spring readiness.
In a Lanark church at the start of the century the minister listed offenders during communion. Lady Batty sat upright in her pew while Snird, a longtime bachelor, sat nearby. When the minister named card players and gamblers, Snird slyly offered his snuff box to Lady Betty hoping she would hear. Later the minister spoke of profane swearing and Lady Betty tapped the laird with her fan and warned him.
A fragmented folk tale explains a Japanese insect that preys on rice. A famed warrior dies after slipping in a rice field, his vanquished spirit turning into a creature that haunts the crop. The piece contrasts a falling star with a missed one, and muses on distant resources.
Public notice from MB SPINK of Goorambst states he has garaged his motor car at Benalla Model Garage. Inquiries can be made referencing motor car hire. Agent for Standard Publishing Co. History of the Great War Book of Public Speaking, Dennys, Lasectles Hupmobile, phone 107. Includes electric light, Mr Martin Blanck as agent for Benalla and District.
Manufacturer offers Tanke through 5000 gale Bathe Pumps Farmore Feed Troughs and other dairy utensils at city prices. Agent for Pumps and Billabong windmills, water systems and fittings. complete water plants available. Call and inspect.
Fragmented OCR shows a mishmash of advertised items from a mercantile page. It mentions clothing, drapery, boots, prints, wallpaper, paints, windows, household items, stoves, and caravans with scattered phrases and foreign strings. The text reads like a catalog snippet from a bygone era with unclear ordering and many garbled words.
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