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Newspaper
Burra Record
Location
Burra, South Australia, Australia
Date
Oct 13, 1897
Page
3
The report notes public sympathy for Nixon amid his marital strife and a possible divorce with damages sought. It mentions government steps, Addison, and local reactions, alongside unrelated items about BurramL, St Marys picnic, wild dogs, and farm losses.
Police Court at Xooringa reports John AlcDonald charged as a pauper lunatic after arrest at Gum Creek Station by M C Jemivon and Corporal Moble. Dr Hrummitt certified him unsound mind and the justice ordered his commitment to Parkside Lunatic Asylum.
In a troubling incident at the rink, James Crowley gave way to temptation under stimulant influence in the presence of M. C. Jemison. Crowley faced penalties, was fined, and paid the amount imposed.
Notes on Platt Reits strength and weight remarks plus a Burra Cricket Club meeting recap. Bennet re elected president with Drew as captain, Herbert as vice captain, Pearce secretary, and Rabbichna Nicholls among the committee as the club plans for the upcoming season.
An elderly couple recounts decades in Heathcote Victoria and health battles led by rheumatism liver enlargement and influenza. Mrs Thomas details Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People which she credits with a dramatic recovery after a long illness and partial paralysis, praising the affordability and availability of the remedy.
In Adelate on Thursday morning Albert Rowell Nixon aged 37 faced felonious stabbing with intent to wound and murder charges. The crowded courtroom heard the case with the Acting Chief Justice presiding amid tense proceedings.
Testimony details a tangled affair among Mrs. Nixon Addison and her husband Bray. Mrs Nixon admits intimate meetings with Addison while married to Nixon, who stalked and confronted Addison at his office leading to a fatal stabbing after a planned confrontation.
A jury convicts Addison of unlawfully wounding Nixon after a scuffle in a planroom. The judge notes provocation regarding an impropriety with Nixon's wife or a related incident. The Crown pursues a separate charge against Nixon for a separate offense.
The judge summarized the defense as doubtful of deliberate crime, noting grave doubts about intent. The prisoner watched his wife and faced a cruel crime. The court sentenced Mixes to eighteen months imprisonment with hard labor amid questions of motive and opportunity.
A short notice reports widespread illness in Sydney including influenza and debility. It cites Mrs T Verizeem of Middlebur e and her daughter who recovered after taking Pills for Pate adviced to ty Penple, describing improved appetite color and strength and the daughter’s regained health after a physician’s treatments.
A jumble of notes covers fatigue from light rings, a Pass Christian story of a lucrative new industry by Black residents, a Westway Bridge spectacle with hats airborne, and quirky classroom arithmetic humor. Other tidbits include bull work life in North Carolina and a stubbornly literal riddle from a teacher.
Oban mourns Margaret Macdougall who died aged many years. Her family hailed from Kerrem and she spent most of her life between the island and Oban. An earlier note recalls a curious tale of a German emperor’s cucumber punch and a humorous garden prank involving a sleeping politician.
The case before Justices Mewes F. Lane and W. KR Ridgway concerns Charles Grow charged with assaulting and beating a man on October 4 1903. Grow pleaded guilty under provocation after testimony described the confrontation and alleged threats and exchanges over payments for sheep shearing.
Fragmented verse extols love for friends and supporters and the noble values that bind humanity. It envisions a united world where reason guides action and good deeds illuminate history, praising poets patriots and martyrs as seeds of a brighter Edenic future.
District councils report on Crown lands payments and road works including Pine Creek road repairs delayed and tenders for several projects. Overseer updates, rate adjustments, and debt payments are noted alongside a death of Neil Dow, famed American temperance advocate.
An 18th century ad touts Hollosay's Pills and Ointment as remedies for ulcers skins diseases and other chronic ailments. It claims these preparations restore vigor without exhausting patients and claim to purify blood and improve health. It notes a local constable named Marrow died from injuries received in a harvest accident on the same day.
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