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Newspaper
Horsham Times
Location
Horsham, Victoria, Australia
Date
Dec 13, 1935
Page
2
A woman correspondent recounts suffering neuritis for years with bandaged legs and confinement at home. After a month on Kruschen Salts she walked and returned to normal activities, praising the ease of recovery and asking others to try the remedy.
A stream of marginal notes and quotes from a historic column blends sayings by Dickens and others with scattered reflections on thoughts, virtue, and cultivation. The voice hints at daily musings, with phrases about mind growth, light hearts, and cultural references, interspersed with names and distant places.
The Picturesque Atlas of Australia describes the Wimmera region beyond Horsham with wheat lands yielding twelve to fifteen bushels per acre, variable by season and land quality. It notes seed timing, local flour mills, export by Melbourne, stark farm life, and limited comforts as settlers progress toward prosperity. The passage traces Horsham to Dimboola and Warracknabeal, detailing rail stops, mills, banks, schools, and the mallee plain backdrop shaping early settlement.
Poem contrasting urban and rural night scenes with images of dusk and dawn. It reflects on quiet country hours versus city glow and the curiosity of city dwellers about bedtime traditions.
An excerpt extols music as a moral art uplifting the soul and imagination. It praises music for giving life to all things and guiding toward goodness, quoting Piato on its essence and beauty.
A reflective note from Jean Morton urges finding patches of hope within weariness. It likens life to small dusky woods where a primrose or bluebell glade can appear. By creating a patch of happiness in another's life you craft a small, lasting bright world amid shadows.
A broadcast by W. B. L. McLeod extols rural life and its value. It argues wealth comes from soil activity, praises scientific farming, and notes city leaders often once grew up in the country, urging urban and rural readers to appreciate country living.
A leading essay urges men to return to the land and raise self-reliant families. It laments city dependency on relief and argues young people should seek education along agricultural lines to become example of country virtue. It warns of a future where unemployment drives mass emigration from cities to farms.
At a Dunmunkie Shire meeting Dr Sudholz urged salt as the only effective control for hoary cress, opposing cutting which spreads the weed. Others argued cutting is useless, while some recommended road-adjacent patches be salted and incentives offered to farmers. The group waited to see Wimmera Shire action before further steps.
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