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Newspaper
Carcoar Chronicle
Location
Carcoar, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Apr 26, 1935
Page
5
A playful exchange shows a child asking what an equine is and a parent joking about mythology and learning, followed by a fragment about a girl Mattie reporting a street horse accident and a humorous mishearing of a rescue horse as a man.
Nora O Neill spends a first country summer with cousins Alice and Jim. On a shady road a large butterfly blocks their path. Nora chases the butterfly, admires the living insect, and releases it as the others joke about how butterflies are rare in the city.
An engineer in Napoleon's camp measures a river's width by sighting from the opposite bank. He bends to align sightlines with the water and land, marks a reference point, and directs a stake and lake to verify distance. He reports to the emperor that the measured width matches his line of sight.
Bobby boasted about bravery while his sisters and Esther fear a goat. The goat snatches a grass offering, Bobby falls into a ditch and cries. Dolly helps him out, they run home, and Bobby learns not to boast about bravery. The tale ends with forgiveness for faults.
A historical look at royal expenses shows Victoria's era used large staff and modest entertainments while Edward VII's reign featured greater personal spending, lavish gifts, and bigger budgets. The piece notes the civil list, stables, kitchens, doctors, and privy purse totals, plus palace upkeep and royal yachts.
In a slow day at the tiny sweet shop Old Nibbles keeps supplies neat. A child asks to exchange aniseed balls for a tollee-apple, insisting they came from another bag and shouting. The shopkeeper questions the request and the boy flees with the claimed change.
The narrative recalls Prince Bismarck and Frederick William the fourth at Letslingen, drinking from a three quarter bottle old pusale goblet. He claims to have emptied it without spilling, provoking surprise and a remark on how diplomats used deception to bend subordinates to signatures.
A collage of curious claims ranging from Magna Carta dates to animal trivia, including King John in 1016, whales' speeds, and elephants of folklore. It covers astronomy, farming tech, linguistics, and ancient writing tools, ending with a Kingston buoy project and a note on a seaworthy pump-hole.
A collection of adages on money, grace under pressure, conscience, and social conduct. It includes lines about wealth attracting friends, not selling one’s integrity, doing good without fear of mockery, and the value of sincerity over cheap goods.
The widower and undertaker clash over seating for the funeral carriage. The mother-in-law and son-in-law argue who rides with the deceased, dragging on tensions as the widower laments the disruption of his plans.
A c level combination of watch and compass has been placed on the market. The compass is set in a recess formed in the top of the watch crown. This design avoids increasing case thickness or distorting appearance while keeping the compass away from steel parts to prevent deflection.
The sun first drew worship as a manifestation of God followed by the moon. Romans and Saxons assigned days to these great lights. Festivals marked by a new moon persisted, with beliefs that the moon guided hair growth, medicine effects, and even the bending of slivered buildings.
Mrs Meggin baits a burlesque wigeboard in her garden while a college party passes by laughing. A passing student heckles her with a quip about sailing and wind as she quietly continues cleaning her windows. The scene captures a rural morning with local humor and quiet defiance.
Jepes promotes a novel farming method calling pearl culture a regular crop. Doctor Mikimoto, a wealthy Japanese scientist, is said to have trained bivalves to produce pearls at will. The operation spans about fifty square miles of water with depths from five to fifteen fathoms, and women divers collect the trained oysters.
An expedition sails for Divo Taland near the Greenland coast to recover a 100 ton meteorite believed to have fallen from the Moon. The rock reportedly yields iron copper and silver with rarer elements including polonium and perhaps diamonds. Organizers anticipate riches from any extractable radium like material.
A fragmented 19th century meditation on ugliness in art contrasts with a vivid wartime anecdote from July 16 1879. The piece blends Futurist and Post impressionist critique with a telling scene of General Paskievitch facing a misfiring battery as a shell fuse fails before a court martial fate.
A boy found in a Lake Saint John forest on July 7, 1873 grew up under a forest life then learned writing. He adopted wild living, vanished for years, and later returned to write tales of the wild. Editors offered large sums, but his death came as the forest claimed him just as a literary career began.
A reflective piece on how leaders and public figures adopt personal mottos to guide their careers. It notes the recurring pattern of choosing a guiding maxim when interviewed about methods and success. Examples include phrases urging opportunity, courtesy, and integrity.
The legend of Nicolò Paganini’s preserved violin faces a woodworm scare in 1907. Crnoma municipality hired experts who confirmed damage, fearing the instrument’s deterioration, while Genoa’s citizens mourn the possible loss of a cherished relic tied to the legendary violinist.
A vignette notes a somber tone about Jones. Brown visits a restaurant, asks for calf’s beam as a pun on tender heart and tenderness, then requests a tender heart if such exists. The short piece blends humor with despondent mood.
A fragmentary historical note recounts a string of misfortunes in Hapeburg, detailing events from 1867 to 1889. It mentions Maximilian, brother of the Emperor, his widow linked to Belgian line, Crown Prince Rudolph, and a series of alleged fates within the imperial family including disappearances and violent deaths.
On a Monday morning a rent collector presses a family as Mary Na struggles and Master Slick reacts with a practiced calm. He tells the nurse Mrs Slick that parents are out and asks to call on Friday. The collector probes about Friday but the boy reveals plans to move on Thursday revealing the ambiguity and tension in a domestic scene.
A string of playful riddles compares love to the British Army and other whimsies. It asks why a poet, bat, telescope, and baker resemble various objects or concepts, delivering punny explanations about overcomes obstacles, chanted Jays, far fetched sighs, poles, blades, bad plays, nearness in time, falsehoods, and the baker selling what he kneads.
A compact collection of humorous snippets and quotations recounts social foibles and punchlines. Punchlines touch on speech mistakes, romantic misfires, blunt wit, and everyday trials. Characters include judges, clerics, couples, and bemused bystanders in a lively, era-appropriate tone.
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