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Newspaper
Grenfell Record And Lachlan District Advertiser
Location
Grenfell, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Jun 06, 1908
Page
9
A critical piece on Kipling and imperialism argues England’s self image blends endangered centrality with cosy Englishness. It contrasts imperial claims with Europe, notes Anglo-Saxon clubs avoid real rivals, and urges tying national pride to genuine civilised achievement rather than colonial pretensions.
Mr William Wemestreet of Trooklyn writes to the New York Times offering to preserve a mantelpiece he claims was used by Edgar Allan Poe while writing The Raven. The note notes the mantel, Poe and his wife Virginia, and suggests much of the poem was completed in that room between 1844 and 1845.
Westminster Times recalls a famed South African diamond tale. In 1871 De Beers found a single glassy pebble in a wall at Dutoitspan, sparking a rush that transformed barren soil into vast wealth. The discovery led to De Beers selling the farm for 600 pounds as Kimberley mines yielded gems worth millions.
In Ilfracombe on March 16 a fish hawker was fined after the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals proved he cut up a live conger eel without killing it first. The RSPCA called the act isolated and noted fish dispatching is difficult, with heads usually severed prior to killing.
G K Chesterton argues in a Daily News style piece that true comradeship between the sexes is fragile and paradoxical. He recalls a dinner with graduates where a long debate on a luncheon's mystery about a left side corridor devolved into a reflection on friendship, gender, and the limits of masculine discourse.
Jet Thomas a Welsh farmer was convicted of murder in Glamorganshire. He shot Elizabeth Roberts through a window and, after a struggle, killed her at a remote farm. The jury found him insane. he was ordered to be detained during His Majesty's pleasure following the verdict at the Assizes.
The Prairie Farmer illustrates a pig ringing device with an oblong box body and adjustable front bars. Pigs enter from the back, are gripped at the neck by bars, then secured with bolts and an iron pin before being released once restrained.
A tall grey whiskered man at Clerkenwell Sessions pleads guilty to robbing furnished flats and assault. He recites a self written plea in verse, asking for three years with hope of reform, while chairman Mr Robert Wallace KC imposes a three year sentence.
Northern Australia is the only tropical land where the white working man has taken up the pick and shovel and put his suitability to the test. In other tropical lands of the British Empire there is mainly a shifting white population, coming from England for a few years and then returning home. Bulletin Sydney.
The passage warns that cream sets and cools badly when exposed to open air and dust in rooms or cellars with strong odors. Treating cream multiple times weekly without proper conditions leads to off flavor and reduced quality.
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