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Newspaper
Carcoar Chronicle
Location
Carcoar, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Dec 20, 1901
Page
8
Poem recounts a bald headed tyrant ruling from No-man's-land with relentless force. A narrator laments loss of peace and seeks Old Time's help to deliver from the tyrant. The piece blends biblical imagery with satire on tyranny and memory.
Cecil Rawdon confronts engagement to Clara Lambert as her brain fever subsides. Marian and Cecil wrestle with duty and desire while Mr Lambert weighs a hopeful path. Cecil reveals his shipwreck memory to Mr Lambert and seeks understanding before his decision.
A fragmentary exchange shows a dubious conversation among characters debating manners and poverty. The garbled text features Lady and other speakers, including names Mort and Dobson, with references to a maid awakening and eating people, creating a surreal, unreadable excerpt.
The column discusses how deportment, facial expressions, and etiquette shaped women’s education and social perception. It warns mothers and teachers to curb improper mouth and forehead movements, promotes graceful gait, and offers home tips for skincare and personal care. It stresses self-control, heredity’s role, and the dangers of imitating unsuitable facial habits in children.
Housekeeper notes offer tips on stain removal using lemon juice and salt, soap substitutes, and boiling water. Advice covers removing coffee and fruit stains, caring for hands, and scalp hair tonic from mixed oils. Caution appears on drying hands to avoid residual dampness and to use cold cream as a remedy.
This item describes making washhand mats from white cloth. Lay cloth flat, place a meat plate face down, draw rounds, add circles, use pudding and cheese plate shapes, cut rounds, stitch coarse flax and bread button holes, sew white chine buttons around edges. Mats become wipe dry washhand stands.
The report notes two fatalities linked to a swinging boat ride at Don cater Inn as riders collapsed after feeling ill and fainting post trip. Separately a French laborer, smoking heavily with matches, inhaled phosphorous vapor for years, leading to facial pain, jaw infection, brain inflammation, and death.
A curious report describes a very wealthy woman using injections of Speedin to curb her drug habit. Despite treatment years ago to end the addiction, her strong craving persists and she travels far to obtain drugs, facing ongoing attempts at recovery.
Fragmentary OCR reading describes a trial related to a fall and heart motion. The text is garbled, mentioning testing and a sense of force or movement, with no clear results, entities, dates, or outcomes to establish a coherent news item.
A cave feature described as a cavern with a basin or chamber connects to a stream of water beneath. The main chamber measures about forty feet in length, with a labyrinth of passages leading to deeper subterranean voids and formations.
A reflective account of onshore bargemen and barge families traveling by canal from Brentford to Slough, detailing barge life, women and children, the dog Tray, and a hardworking skipper. The piece notes the sturdy bucolic community, limited living spaces, rustic wall paintings, and the balance of freedom from taxes with constant canal hazards like locks and crickets on the hearth.
A servant ran errands for a patron at the Grand Hotel then showed a wardrobe drawer stacked with banknotes from 100 francs to 600 francs and gold. the head waiter paid himself, placing the bills before his patron. The millionaire vanished later, leaving the scene unsettled.
Advice on using autumn manure before planting strawberries, shallow ploughing, precise spacing, and staking with a wire guide. Details cover planting depth, row alignment, weekly cultivation, monthly deep between-row work, removing runners, and equipment tips to promote larger berries and easier harvest.
The article outlines general asparagus bed care, comparing methods for bleached and green spears. It describes spring cultivation, plowing between rows, forming ridges, and leveling after cutting to promote vigorous growth and weed suppression. It emphasizes timing and soil work toward rows to maintain healthy crowns and shading to reduce weeds.
A garbled report captures a chaotic exchange where a would-be member faces delays, confrontations erupt with fragmented lines about love and loyalty, and a tense mood pervades the discussion among attendees.
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