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Newspaper
Geelong Advertiser
Location
Geelong, Victoria, Australia
Date
Jun 01, 1901
Page
6
A fragmented 19th century style column recounts odd scenes from daily life. Anecdotes range from a servant’s soda water mishap to sheriffs delivering notices, a bellman’s lost shoe, and a child’s quips about theater, with villagers exchanging jests amid village humor and familiar locals.
Harald reads a letters filled with longing from a village romance to London editors. A photograph shifts his view, awakening desire for a betrothed in the village while he contends with insomnia and a looming deadline. The scene shifts from quiet home to theater and church bells as memory and work pull him apart.
An old advertisement touts Condy’s Fluid as a cureable remedy for many livestock ailments including scours, thrush, cracked heels, mud fever, mange, canker, and diarrhoea in cattle, horses, and poultry. It claims nationwide veterinary effectiveness and warns against inferior substitutes.
A Sydney street scene follows Billy, a boy injured by a tram, through a grim week in hospital. Nurse Ellen consoles him as he learns of Jesus, Bethlehem, Nazareth, and the Resurrection, and Billy asks if Jesus will come to take him home tonight, dying peacefully with a Christlike hope and a simple grave marked "For Tex's Sake."
An Australian advertisement recounts Geo Butcher praising Vitadatio from Vitadstiv Institute Melbourne after 26 years of stricture and fistula. It claims cure following multiple hospital treatments in London Sydney and subsequent return to health, urging others to publish testimonials for benefit.
An ornate Victorian letter from Burnley road Bolontial Victoria dated January 21 touts Warner's Late Cure for kidney and liver ailments. It promotes the remedy as a universal cure for indigestion rheumatism biliousness blood disorders gout and neuralgia, with a separate endorsement for Chesterson's Cough Remedy and a dealer list including George Hooper and Co. and Hooper and Co. at Moor Street.
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