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Newspaper
Carcoar Chronicle
Location
Carcoar, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Nov 23, 1900
Page
3
The column argues that women's power stems from beauty and cultured intelligence with emphasis on good breeding or good manners. It contrasts poised speech with abrupt outbursts, notes the charm of graceful enunciation, and laments declining etiquette among modern women and public figures.
Sketcher M Cochetert, Paris chief of detectives, profiles Auguste Favret as an exceptional burglar who eluded capture for 11 years, living near police HQ in a luxury mansion. Favret says he prefers nonlethal crime, admires explorers and soldiers, and plans to fight conviction with money and influence while boasting of vast experience from London to Paris.
A Paris corre reads on model strikes and the foreign dominance of the profession, plus a village crime note from South Norwalk about hats as punishment. Anecdotes recount Mayor of Nicholas Wilbesbarre custody tricks, Sir John Adyn quips, a Brazilian conjoined twins operation, a Thirsk Sunday school conversion, a safe cab design, and a beef soup recipe.
A fragmented clipping references the Khedive of Egypt’s son Abbas and his adherence to polygamy limits, a note on Bethune’s Lane leader, and an accident in India. It mentions Costas of Warwick owning a Bond Street millinery charity shop, plus Major Riwington’s role in coronation routes and other scattered tales about President Dinah and unnamed events.
A heated dispute erupts between a musician, hailed as a music hall star, and a young banker at a Continental restaurant. The musician produces a card the banker pockets, later meeting the banker on the street where the musician demands satisfaction for a concert ticket as payment for the previous night's performance.
In a country rector tale, a boyish joke centers on Tolade who pulls a cannon from his pocket on the way to church. The rector, though, delivers an unusually frequent sermon from the pulpit and later scolds the lads, revealing a hidden reserve of a “bully” sermon for visitors.
A fragmentary anecdote notes Torep Ralatte, a Prairie Chien trader, illustrating views on the Indian trade. A visitor to Praise du Chica remarks she would avoid the trade to prevent cheating, reflecting tensions and misconceptions about Native peoples.
In a dialogue heavy scene the elderly father boasted owning 30 shares in Sure Thing Copper Mine and the Dustrillo Railway, valued at about a quarter of a million, and asked the young suitor for confidence as he agreed to think over the match after a later meeting.
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