13 Oct 1917
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Newspaper
Camperdown Herald
Location
Camperdown, Victoria, Australia
Date
Oct 13, 1917
Page
1
A Mother commends REXONA for actions by the Commissioner including affidavits and asset disclosures totaling 13 million pounds. The report highlights the commissioner’s handling of assets and related legal matters.
A man travels from Ireland to a remote ceremony where a white veil bride is found not as promised. The groom discovers the bride replaced by a sister and, cradled by deceit, departs abroad after the failed marriage.
A terse courtroom exchange centers on breach of promise and fear in a fragmentary transcript. The young man defends his actions while the lawyer emphasizes restraint and caution, ending with a blunt maxim urging silence.
A shrewd mother argues children find happiness in simple things and nature rather than expensive amusements. She warns against a culture of costly toys, theatres, and pleasure parties that fuels unrest and discontent, urging a return to a simpler life.
An elderly visitor travels from San Pramin to Treland with his son and experiences a cultural clash at the Presidio and in the school treat. The tale shifts to a christening mishap when an old mariner's sea phrase disrupts the ceremony, highlighting memory and humor in a rural community.
The text urges forgiving nightly tiredness with a mother's kiss and quiet, avoiding scolding at bedtime. It warns against harshness and fear, arguing children should not carry adult sorrows or forced morality into dreams and that fairy tales reveal truth in simple stories.
An arrogant young American farmer visits England to learn lily business and claims a condensed fertilizer that could be ten thousand times more effective. The English agronomist jokes that the man could fit enough material for a crop in one waistcoat pocket and still fill his other pocket with harvest.
A lighthearted tale follows a girl who taunts Reginald to leap on Leap Year and he does. An Irishman walks home when a passerby misreads him as a thief and clocks him with a boot to the head saying it is one o'clock. The Irishman laughs and questions the caller’s timing.
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