Queanbeyan Growth Tied to Canberra Expansion
Queanbeyan’s 1926 progress reflects Canberra’s boom with new water supply from Cotter River, electricity links, and a large three story hotel plan. The town sees housing booms, new brick works, and calls for a bigger post office and school as population surges and land values rise.
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Queanbeyan
Lving
Roemc
Commonwealth
Municipal Council of
Federal Capital Commission
Canberra
Crawford Street
Uriarra Road
W. H. Mason
Royal Hotel
Monaro
Crawford Streets
Foster
Bowral
Sydney
Belch
Federal Capital Territory
Heenzo cough mixture advertised at two shillings
An 19th century advertisement touts Heenzo cough mixture offering one’s worth of remedy for two shillings with water and sweetening, claiming eight portions equal to costly preparations. It promises purity, gentle digestion for babies, and relief for chest and throat afflictions.
Curiosities From Around the World and Britain
A collection of brief notes on diverse topics including canals near the Thames, global population races, a Manchester building repurposed as a church vestry, ladies with titles, ancient iron ox heads, trout scale growth, bacteria varieties, whist hand counts, civil service carpet rules, Grindelwald guides, Zululand starlight distances, typist finger movements, a papermaking pulp block, Mrs Lindia Richardson's claim to Rutherford fortune, bed making displays in English hotels, and English building societies with over a million members.
I Never Heard a Deaf Man Hear An Egg Seller Tale
A country merchant installs a telephone in his shop and shouts into it while a farmer, new to phones, asks about eggs. The farmer’s loud reply finally startles him into realizing the line is the problem, not the farmer. The farmer quips he can make the deaf hear if he lets himself out.
Tribute to Cousin Jim Delayed in Provincial Paper
A tired man with crape on his hat seeks payment for obituary poetry about his dead cousin Jim. The editor laments offering space but awaits the piece, while the man questions why such verses should be printed and when the cheque will be issued. The tribute has not yet appeared.
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Jim
Saiad
Ead
Epurin
Emoton
Cours
Willing to Risk It
A shopkeeper catches a small boy stealing a cigar from a rear area. He stops the theft and, in a twisted lesson, offers the boy a smoke from a strong cigar to remember the crime. The boy asks to refrain, then attempts to leave, but remains unsettled by the odd corrective.
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Usbaccen
Sigma
Guy
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AM Leichhard
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O.K Ea
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E. M. Gee
Federal Capital Sports and Music Store
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Orport
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Zululand
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Andrew Rutherfort
Perth
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Sunderland
England
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Henry F. Halloran & Co
Abraham
American Wall Bed CO
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Bathurst and
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City
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