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Newspaper
Carcoar Chronicle
Location
Carcoar, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Mar 31, 1933
Page
3
A meandering, low reading level piece describes Japanese children's fears of fairies and ghosts with reference to a Gumday school scene. The narrator recalls a teacher showing a large picture of a mother and child with Egypt in the distance, while children ask where the eyes are.
A Highland clan story recounts a young Lamont fleeing Gregor forces after a Glen Erchy quarrel. He seeks refuge at a tenant’s house, pleading that he is in danger. The chief confirms MacGregor’s promise of safety, declaring the lad free from harm inside the house.
In Cadenet France two monuments honor Andre Etienne known as the Littl drummer of Arcola. The 1796 Arcola battle behind Napoleon crowned by Andre's drum crossing the bridge via a sergeant’s help, his beating spurring French troops to victory and routing Austrian forces at Varano, a famed episode shaping Napoleonic fortune.
A report explains how gold and silver particles accumulate in mint chimneys and carpets during cleaning and production. At Berlin Royal Mint about £200 of gold was recovered from soot, with similar discoveries at London Mint and in American refineries. Delicate residues are burned away to reclaim embedded precious metals, sometimes yielding ounces of gold per carpet.
Holidaymakers risk colds and infections from careless packing. Handkerchiefs, underwear, and toilet articles touched near dirty boots or dusty clothes can harbor germs. Pack boots separately and protect kerchiefs and linens to reduce contamination and illness.
A man with a sling and injured nose limps toward an insurance office claiming £100 for a fall down stone steps. The courteous manager declares the case investigated and questions whether the misfortune was an accident, insinuating the claimant knew the young lady’s father was home.
Stutt Emh Tt describes a German physician method that treats stuttering by teaching the relative importance of vowels and consonants. Patients speak sentences with prolonged vowels and short consonants, gaining fluency and confidence quickly. Applicable to children and notes possible causes such as infections, head injury, imitation, or heredity.
The Rev. Dr. Aked argues there is such a thing as too much goal in religious matters. He recalls a Easter incident where a manufacturer promised bonds payment for church attendance. The scene ends with a foreman asking if workers would get overtime for a second service.
A montage of curios from 1606 to modern times touches on Gunter's chain and land measures, decorative powders, a tiny humming-bind, plaster stucco, and glue mixtures. It notes milk production linked to coin horns, a telescoping bicycle mud guard patent, Antarctic coal, and edge-protecting tumbler rings. It also covers windmill powered lighting for an English church, pivoted watering pots, Egyptian cotton, capital offenses in English law, Argentina's straight rail, Greenland women, and French refrigeration via sulfur dioxide. Additional items include undergound wine vaults in Epernay, duckling growth data, wood fiber clothing, auto headlight mounts, insomnia-curing spectacles, rubber foot pontoons, edible snails, Emperor diaries, licorice sources, a Maral microphone, and Eiffel Tower wireless concerts heard in Brussels.
Scientists note cod as the most prolific fish with yields around 46 million eggs per season and exceptional single-cod cases. Other species like herrings, smelts, soles, roach, sturgeon, carp, and mackerel also show high egg counts, while oysters display prolific microscopic shells. A pair of herrings could produce immense numbers over years, Buffon estimating bulk comparable to the globe.
A new design dripless tea strainer prevents spills and stains. The perforated mesh sits atop a deep bowl shaped spoon that forms the bottom when rested. During use it is held over a cup allowing tea to flow into the bowl and back through the holes.
In a hotel a frazzled manager is summoned to Room 77 by Mrs. Moneybags who complains of a loud noise overhead. A sick French guest explains the doctor ordered “two nights running then skip a night” and the man jokes about keeping to the prescription despite the ruckus.
Dr. Toulouse, chief physician, develops oxygen injections as a treatment for acute mental illness at the Ville juif Insane Asylum. Pure oxygen from steel cylinders is delivered via a glass flask, rubber bulb pressure regulator, and fine hypodermic needle, injecting 250 cubic centimetres under the skin. Early observers report marked calm and lucidity in delirious patients and improvement or cure in insomnia, acute mania, dementia, epileptic fits, and certain melancholia cases.
An article discusses extreme hand washing standards in hospitals. It notes surgeons spend twenty minutes total on washing, including multiple soap and water scrubs, nail cleaning, alcohol rinses, and a five minute corrosive sublimate soak to ensure sterility before operations.
July 4 marks Garibaldi the hero of Italian independence and the birth day of the romantic mid-Victorian figure. His marriages, dramatic as his campaigns, include a Creole wife Annte Revela de Silva in South America, a risky Alpine engagement to Count Raimondi’s daughter, and a third marriage in 1870 to the Norse of his grandchildren, reflecting virtue and fate in his turbulent life.
A historical scheme proposes a 12 month year with 4 equal quarters. January and February have 28 days, March has 30, with pairs of months in each quarter at 80 days and the last month at 131 days, totaling 364 days. An extra New Year’s Day stands outside weeks and months. leap years add a day between June and July with its own name. The first day of each quarter starts on Monday, with fixed weekday starts for each month, and Easter dating to be standardized.
An 19th century style home remedy guide advises mouth care using bicarbonate rinses, charrous powder from areca nut, and sage leaves to whiten teeth and prevent decay. It recommends lemon juice, ash, soot mixtures, and salt for hardening gums and boosting enamel shine.
An inspector tests a class of about thirty bored boys as Tommy Styles correctly defines the equator as an imaginary line. The inspector then asks to tie a knot in the equator, prompting Tommy to answer with an imaginary knot in a sharp moment of classroom humor.
On a hotel verandah Jones questions a rich local farmer famed as an inventor. The other man explains the farmer raises potatoes but interplants onions to water the spuds, joking that the onions make the potatoes’ eyes water and irrigate them.
A divine holidaying in the land of cakes misreads kippered herring as a sign of preservation. He jokes that the Lord should abundantly kipper the soul of their beloved parson, after learning the term at breakfast.
A jumble of quips and mini‑conversations appears as a humor page with jokes about food habits, social proprieties, and daily mishaps. Conversational vignettes feature a range of characters from a waiter to an aunt and a parvenu, delivering light wordplay and social cues.
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