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Newspaper
Horsham Times
Location
Horsham, Victoria, Australia
Date
Dec 29, 1916
Page
10
Rosa Jennings returns to London to confront her estranged guardians and a solicitor seeking her inheritance. Rachel Harding weighs a bold plan to inform Debonair of prior affairs, while Rosa hopes to uncover her father and secure her future amid family tensions and romantic entanglements.
The tale recalls a Corsican naval family with Luce de Casablanca and a son who served in the French Navy. Captain Casa hinnea led the Orient in the Aboukir battle, refused surrender, and died as the ship blew up with father and son united in a final act.
The article argues that the war highlights the critical role of dental care for soldiers. Good teeth ensure proper mastication, general health, and battlefield effectiveness. Dentists are essential not only for decay repair but also for jaw injuries and plastic results, matching medical needs on the front.
The article discusses whether insects communicate by sounds and antennae rubbing. It notes dogs respond to strains of music and earwigs drag dead comrades away with companions. It cites naturalists debating insect hearing via rubbing or a supposed sound apparatus.
A speaker argues that women can hold any public or private office and perform tasks with greater faithfulness and courage. An ill-timed interruption by a man in the back row is shouted down with the call to rateateher, after which he flees in a sudden rush.
A sensational fragment shows a doctor admonishing a grievously ill patient and ordering rapid surgery. The unreliable narrator mentions a centi million aire and a wrecked yacht, with a shoreward warning against eating rich foods. George is summoned with saw and axes.
A comic tale recalls receiving a pamphlet titled How to Keep Fit that maps Battersea Park to the liver and Golders Green to the larynx. The narrator orders a “muscle developer” and an electric belt, which wreak havoc in the house, ending with a humorous allergy to medical advice and a dream about baked apples and a new disease.
A tale from French military history notes that the 12th Lancers expiated a year of penance for wine looting at Spala while a unit of the 46th Line kept a dead soldier’s name on parade. The story ends with Bonaparte confirming the ritual of the oldest sergeant answering when a soldier fell at Hohenlinden.
Tale traces the saying to a London boy taken in by nine tailors who mentored him into wealth. He later rode in a carriage bearing a Latin motto “Nine Tailors Made Me a Man” implying many hands aided his rise. The piece suggests alternate readings linking church bells to gendered mortality.
A reporter named Sol Jinnicky is described as being outside with a revolver prompting editor reaction as the scene unfolds. the text is garbled but implies a tense confrontation or street encounter.
Fragmentary wartime verse notes boastful claims by soldiers about preventing German landings at Dover and attacking French targets. The poem mentions sapper actions under German headquarters and a man using trench mortars to bombard the Rhine while Lille comes under shellfire.
A compact guide listing proportions for thick soups custards pastries and puddings. It covers thickening agents per quart of soup quantities of milk for cereals and semolina eggs and cornflour in custards pastry fat to flour ratios and baking powder use for various baked goods.
A fragment narrator recalls prisoners with stories of near escapes and hardship in a show ending with a boast of capturing the Kaiser. The tone hints at wartime intrigue and personal recollection, though details are cryptic and uneven.
Justice Madden surveys contemporaries of Shakespeare to illuminate his character. He cites Spenser Marlowe and Ben Jonson and notes Shakespeare inspired affection and respect among players, preserving a gentleness praised in lines written for his memory.
A mother recalls JT forgetting to ask his father for money as he departed in high spirits. The exchange hints at family routines and minor financial expectations within the household.
A speculative piece envisions a global rail network linking Europe to America via a transatlantic land route, then extending across Africa to Cape Town. It imagines future bridges and railways such as the Berlin to Baghdad mailway and a Bosporus bridge enabling dry crossings and rapid Eurasian-African connectivity.
A mosaic of urban passions plays across a street crowd. A fireman flaunts fame while a milliner and her beau quarrel with a rejected suitor. The florist vents warlike tensions as a pastry-connoisseur, a clergyman, and a company promoter murmur quiet claims. Conchologists boast over a shell ear while a frotterer proclaims affection and a sportsman loudly calls a name of endearment.
A Melbourne chemist promotes a hair restoration compound said to revive grey hair to its natural color. The ad describes mixing a powder with bay rum and water to apply nightly, promising non greasy use and a restored crown with renewed growth, noting availability from Henshall Chemist and country orders by post.
Fat folk seeking weight reduction are urged to try Formettes as an inexpensive remedy. The ad claims quick, safe results with no effort and notes they boost appetite and general health. Sold by chemists like FH Henshall at 246 Clarendon Street, Bourke Melbourne.
The article outlines Methodist Ladies' College Hawthorn led by Rev. W. H. Fitchett, detailing its fourfold aims The girl the home the realm of the girl and the home life The college emphasizes systematic physical exercise day work and moral education to cultivate health grace and spiritual strength for university preparation and community life.
Whirloeophers say my eyes make the sense of cheering in church during the sermon. They note habitual behavior of some people who gaze elsewhere rather than focus on the message.
A quirky passage recalls Pat’s patriotic ramble amid a tale of military pride and skepticism. The dialogue touches on distrust and red flags as characters debate loyalty, danger, and memory of green banners.
A wartime training plan outlines short instructional periods for women and men to learn ordinary farm work. It aims to quickly produce useful skills for farmers and encourage continued work after the war.
A survey of 100 Kansas farms shows a college educated farmer earning far more than those with only a common schooling level and 70 percent higher profit for a high school graduate compared with the neighbor. Farmers reportedly surprised by education impact, asking does college pay.
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