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Newspaper
Bombala Times
Location
Bombala, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Jun 08, 1923
Page
3
A fragmentary excerpt describes cultural notes on Japan and social gossip. It mentions Japanese dining customs with servants beside rotatable diners and a discussion about a young man named George Macpherson who repeatedly visited a house before abruptly stopping.
A destitute man, reduced to his last penny, feigns dumbness and meets a kind donor in town. The passerby asks how long he has been mute, and the beggar replies he has been dumb since birth, momentarily forgetting his deception.
A country village preacher rebukes a noisy quarrel in his parish. Hodge retorts that if the couple were counted as twenty, the noise would still persist. Also notes tramways tickets as lottery tickets and the company’s past frauds and current passenger caution.
A sequence of humorous exchanges centers on a wife’s dental pain and a man bragging about gas versus electric light. A mother details her son’s experiments with toys to gauge his interests, only to have him smash them all and be labeled a furniture remover.
The passage notes dogs live twelve to fifteen years on average, with rare cases reaching twenty three. Cats have a similar lifespan to dogs, though they suffer less from overeating.
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