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Newspaper
Benalla Standard
Location
Benalla, Victoria, Australia
Date
Sep 26, 1902
Page
6
In Melbourne intense bush fires have caused significant financial losses estimated at £25,000,000. The company seeks agents to handle the surge of claims and market repair services at Market Street with W. Tarry noted as a contact.
A garbled excerpt recreates a dramatic scene with dialogue between characters in a melodramatic plot. The text blends mis-spellings and orphaned phrases, centering on romantic entanglements, deception, and a ring scene, with characters named Polo, Clore, and Loumer in a tension filled social setting.
Melbourne morning papers discuss an illustrated work titled Humanity by E W Cole with 660 portraits of races from Europe to Oceania. A pamphlet A White Australia Impossible argues against Edmund Barton's federation doctrine. Cole imagines a world federation through universal human oneness despite climate and civilizational differences.
Local house gas fittings sale promotes reduced prices on gas brackets and globes from John Danks and Son Prop to clear stock before manufacturers raise prices.
An old advertisement for Arnold's Balsam touts it as the best chest medicine for coughs colds asthma bronchitis and consumption. The piece weaves in promotional claims and faded lines about health benefits along with unrelated quotes and excerpts from antique authors.
A collection of odd scenes and social misadventures unfolds around Castale Station. A child in care, a mother’s absence, and a flirtatious hotel scene mingle with a magistrate’s beach case and a gardener’s anecdote. The piece blends humorous vignettes with brief court and social observations from seaside life.
Fragmentary prose urges balance between intellect and virtue in women. It argues that true worth comes from denying vanity and embracing study and moral restraint, while condemning self interest and superficial display in favor of lasting character.
A fragment describes a man wagering on pigeons for thirty consecutive days, then failing to recoup the money. It mentions Ape, Sinbad, and a plan for varied meals through the week, emphasizing variety, ingenuity, and a spice of life to keep meals from becoming monotonous.
An odd historical snippet describes a bizarre garment with ankle buttons to deter mice and floor seating for donning. It then shifts to a moral admonition urging readers to forget neighbors faults, slander, temptations, and focus on the good in friends to prolong life.
A small mouse leaves its nest to snack on cheese near a box by the wall. It enters the box despite the half open door and wired guard, then the door shuts trapping the mouse and prompting a warning about the fate when the trap is sprung.
A moral exhortation urging girls to value home duties over missionary travel. It praises hospital ward work and daily acts of patience, self denial, and charity, emphasizing influence begins at home and in small daily tasks like comforting children and telling the story of Christ.
A disjointed stream of mixed phrases references prompts and words like gun and duty. It hints at a freely spoken if cryptic dialogue about action, timing, and consequences with unclear speakers. The text reads like rough OCR of a fictional or puzzle piece segment.
A tribute recounts a father's influence as a model of integrity and duty. It extols his role in guiding family life and community conduct, emphasizing steadfastness, temperance, and benevolent leadership as shaping forces for his children's future.
The article describes immigrant practices for concealing currency. Germans wear ornate belts with money hidden at the waist, while women often keep notes with a dresser. The French favor small money tubes for coins, removing coins one by one. Swedes and Norwegians use large packet-books handed down through generations, a habit resistant to small changes in value.
A poem extols a gentle, manly boy who guards words and deeds, stays honest, and earns trust. It celebrates doing good, finding joy in giving joy, and bearing a noble name through steadfast character and friendliness.
Poem fragment reflecting on choosing happiness as a lens for life. The speaker notes the act lifts others as burdens ease and strengthens the observer. A hopeful tone hints at brighter skies when happiness anchors daily mood, with a signature line attributed to Ripley D Saunders.
Alfred Wate recounts a humorous 19th century London street tale about a shopkeeper Mr Payne of Southampton fame. The piece centers on a bric a brac jug advertising The Big Die Shop suspended from a doorway, posters urging purchases of wines, and a riotous crowd, highlighting the era’s promotional prank and local response in Salisbury/Balsbury area.
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