26 Nov 1918
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Newspaper
Benalla Standard
Location
Benalla, Victoria, Australia
Date
Nov 26, 1918
Page
1
An aged text warns readers to trust personal care over hired hands, praise tram travel over anxious driving, and favor prudent conduct amid crowded streets. It contrasts safe, careful riding with reckless behavior, suggesting a strong virtue in self reliance and measured travel.
A Beipele lieutenant narrowly escaped a bullet in the Boer War era. He rode to a hospital to dress his wound, refused an ambulance, and watched the ambulance waggon topple into a river, drowning all aboard.
A reflective piece on how everyday behavior and facial expressions affect others around us. It notes that everyone influences peers, either uplifting or discouraging them, through mere looks and actions, and asks what we have done for others today.
One of the world’s strangest farms sits 265 feet below sea level in Southern California at Salton. A 1000 acre canal crop yields salt deposited 12 to 16 inches deep. For twenty years harvests have produced over 40,000 tons, with ten acres touched. salt is ploughed, furrowed, piled, then sent to nearby reduction works. Workers include Mexicans and Chinese under extreme heat.
In an artist’s studio a painter known for frugal and quarrelsome habits confronted repeated pane damage. Students covered the window with paper, the artist knocked through each time, declaring that “the one that breaks pays” and finally struck the final paper and pane with his cane in a burst of anger.
A dinner table scene shows wealth and East. A native servant offers Simkin a token meaning champagne. The elderly guest mishears, pokes a trumpet with champagne, and the moment exposes her deafness and the social miscommunication.
An outtake fragment shows a tense exchange about weather forecasting accuracy. A stern response questions the reliability of the prediction while other voices push for clarity amid conflicting routes and weather notes.
A critical portrait of a homemaker who magnifies trivial matters into burdensome duties. The piece argues overwork and perfectionism harm both her and others, stressing the need for rest to restore happiness and balance in family life.
A cottage landlord posts a strict vacancy ad in a working class area. A burly collier arrives and is grilled with questions about drinking quarrels with neighbors keeping animals and gambling. The landlord ultimately defers saying the right tenant is beyond him. The collier jokes that an archbishop would know who to hire.
A Yorkshire parish vicar struggles with a parishioner’s loud reactions during worship. The old man bursts into the sermon shouting "Boots or no boots, the Lord be ruined" prompting the congregation to confront disruption and the church’s decorum.
A heated council discussion over paving 6 Midteod town streets ends with sharp retort from the lead advocate for engraving. Opponents call paving a nuisance as residents debate street order, noise, and propriety, with a witty reply cutting through the dispute.
A long survey of women’s influence in households and society contrasts two types of manage ment: the clumsy debutante handler and the skilled social organizer who shapes schools, churches, matches, and even neighbors. It discusses domestic roles, fashion, and advice columns, plus a feature on lace washing and a wooing of women’s rights through responses from educated readers. The piece ends with reflections on women’s freedom, power, and the evolving roles of women in society.
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