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Newspaper
Geraldton Guardian
Location
Geraldton, Western Australia, Australia
Date
Sep 29, 1917
Page
4
Geraldton visitors are invited to attend a Friday Bon Marche event featuring the Lovely Summer Millinery in the New Show Room. The display promises a beautiful range for spring, with Anderson presenting in the window and an invitation extended to all.
In Mayfair a planned jewel theft centers on Miss Vanhattan’s residence. Herbert Glendower and Count Hexell, aided by a disguised servant, scheme to break in during the late evening when the house is empty and the servants at table. A pearl necklace is finally found in a dressing table drawer, but a surprise confrontation with a gun-toting visitor interrupts the heist.
A damaged wire service style report describes the torpedoing of the Miner Alnwick Castle and the crew’s suffering. It mentions drowning, injuries, and failed escape attempts as survivors recount the deck scenes and peril at sea. The text reflects chaotic, partial details from wartime distress communications.
Caplan George Healey, master of a West Hartlepool steamer, tells of a German submarine torpedoing the Newcastle steamer Caithness with 49 hands. Survivors endured life aboard a sinking boat, Germans jeered, crew drifted 14 days, one died at rescue, others injured. Captain Heatley treated in hospital.
A compact account traces well known tunes and lyrics to their authors and origins. It notes Epes Sargent as the writer of Old Songs A Life on the Ocean Wave and Henry Russell who set it to music, with The Last Rose of Summer by Thomas Moore and the Groves of Blarney tune. It discusses The Blue Bells of Scotland once thought Scottish but now English, Kathleen Mavourneen by Mrs Crawford, and a remark on Auld Lang Syne with older verses.
The article discusses medical views on vegetarian diets of historical figures and the doctor’s method of checking a patient’s condition by pulse and respiration. It cites Benjamin Franklin Herbert Spencer Tolstoy and notes how dietary changes affected vigor and output. It also explains pulse rates across ages and illness, and how fever and hemorrhage alter pulse.
A new cook insists on fifty pounds a year and to not wash floors or clean boots. She demands work after seven, three evenings off weekly, and a fine reference. The mistress pleads to wait for the reference as she departs. The cook remains firm, noting past failed attempts to obtain a good reference upon leaving.
A boy loves sloths and receives 2s 6d to buy two books. When asked if the books help, he says they are all about babies. The father exclaims and collapses after seeing the punning title Hints to Young Mothexe.
Fragmented OCR text shows a north country parson objecting to a child name Laura Winifred Gwendolyn Genevieve during a christening. Other lines reference Mrs Whiffern, Mr Whiffers, and a chaotic dialogue about names and marriage, with garbled names and partial remarks from multiple speakers.
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