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Newspaper
Bowral Free Press
Location
Bowral, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Jul 26, 1905
Page
1
Alexander Farmer aged eighty six, who took part in the famous charge of Balaclava, died after an operation in the hospital at Hartlepool. The item notes other disparate facts about exports and patent medicine sales from Dearmark and a cough remedy advertisement.
The excerpt discusses backsheesh beggars encountered by travelers in Nazareth and the East. It describes how visitors frequently give or resist requests, the aggressive begging by many Arabs, and a few extreme acts by some children to elicit money. The passage also notes the broader moral consequence and religious framing of such beggary as part of a traveler’s journey.
The article notes Charles Dickens’s two sons emigrating to Australia with Alfred Tennyson Dickens still in Hawthorn Melbourne. It cites a Bible Society circulation of 5,957,645 copies and 2008 tons of Scriptures produced for the year ending March 31, while mentioning varied remarks on education, drinking, and public protest against perceived social ills.
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