28 Oct 1919
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Newspaper
Benalla Standard
Location
Benalla, Victoria, Australia
Date
Oct 28, 1919
Page
1
A collection of kitchen notes detailing baked sausage with pork strips and apples, custard with tripe, wholemeal sultana pudding, cornflour cakes, and coloring for gravies. Also includes a chicken dish, alliance salad, honey pudding, a mixed jelly, tea cakes, and kidneys on toast with simple steps and ingredients.
An exploration of twin birth frequencies across nations and climates, noting identical twins with same sex, the hereditary tendency to produce twins, and rare phenomena like triplets, quadruplets, and coalesced or Siamese twins. It cites Russia Spain birth ratios, and mentions the Corsican Brothers motif tied to identical twins.
An elderly farmer recalls a village family with three highly behaved pupils who later led a Sunday school to a Sunday Derby scheme. He describes how the quartet of model scholars bribed others with apples to join the field horse ride, amid a sudden end to the derby and lasting suspicion of well behaved youth.
A bazaar hawker uses heavy persuasion to sell a phonograph. He offers a blank cylinder to hear the buyer, who in turn asks the lute to be played. The wax record ends up indented with code like a police inquiry and the buyer declines, joking about the lute.
A series of testimonials praises Dr. Ack Hing for herbal remedies curing eye defects nerve paralysis head pain deafness and other ailments. Patients from Maryborough Ararat Mildura Golden Square Bendigo and Bendigo offer relief from conditions including infantile paralysis leg pain knee tuberculosis and general body pains after trials of the herbal treatments.
A mother praises her baby’s sweet voice and mentions sending her to Italy for voice cultivation. A husband, hidden behind a paper, jokes about rules as a provincial theatre manager fined actors for missing props. He once paid a comedian a real half-crown which the latter forgot to return.
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