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Newspaper
Carcoar Chronicle
Location
Carcoar, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Dec 28, 1900
Page
3
Practical guidance on peach canning and preserving without sugar, including syrup creation, air exclusion, and safe sealing. Advice on harvesting, sorting into grades, and market strategies to maximize profits. Notes on handling crop variations, equipment, and cautions against waste from weather. Also includes a humorous aside about aging and remarks on canning timing.
A mosaic of humorous fragments and banter from a periodical page. Jests about clocks and landmasses, clever quips on women and aging, a rector and director, a legal dispute turned costly, and light exchanges over umbrellas, doctors, and debts. The snippets convey a lively, if bittersweet, comic tone.
The piece reports plans for a new Thames tunnel under London Bridge to be thirty feet in diameter and over a mile long costing 1,100,000 with 400,000 for approaches. It also mentions a Devonian shark specimen captured near Madeira and a 1880 Monaco yacht find, alongside a Alabama bill proposing the word Negro with a capital letter and the term coloured banned. It includes an anecdotal account of South Africa house keeping, prices, and daily life during a stay in the Cape Colony with drafts on rents, food, and servants.
In America an experiment with an airspace parachute led to a dramatic descent near a railway. A long train steamed toward the flyer as he tugged at cords in vain. Wind from the passing train lifted the parachute, allowing a safe landing aboard the railway car unhurt.
A collage of 19th century musings spanning Burns war ode reception, tea trade growth, dredger tech, court reporting foibles, and Augustine Birrell on journalism Morality. The pieces contrast critics like Carlyle Wordsworth and lay bare press realities politics religion and commercial pressures shaping public taste in Britain.
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