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Newspaper
Horsham Times
Location
Horsham, Victoria, Australia
Date
Jun 04, 1915
Page
2
Hyland's buy ducklings chickens and turkeys at site weight. Hyland's pay top prices for old hens and offer to save commission and carriage. Victorian agent Davies Hyland & Sons Exporters Sennitt's Freezing Works Melbourne.
A nurse vents about long nights and emotional strain while caring for the sick. She notes fatigue, sleeplessness, and reliance on Robur Tea to stay alert and persevering in duty. The piece highlights the grueling care work and small comforts that sustain caregivers.
Iceland maintains a unique police setup with a lone official stationed in the capital, described as a ceremonial force rather than a deterrent. The article notes the country has no standing army and the police presence is seen as ornamental, with the lone sentry depicted amid villagers and visitors.
A garbled defense statement is met by a police officer's terse challenge as the defendant and officers clash over the veracity of testimony. The exchange hints at a contested charge and strained courtroom decorum amid unclear phrases.
A humorous yet sharp critique of wartime domestic life arguing husbands misperceive housekeeping as simple. It contrasts Johns who blame wives and overspend with Jackes who concede the need for funds, noting the daily grind, frugal scrimping, and the emotional toll of keeping a home through war.
Portrait of Harry O Rorke a tall strong Briton who refuses to enlist until his beloved Nell defies him with a claim that he should stay. He is urged by his inner duty and finally joins the Front as Nell fears the outcome yet supports his choice.
Striking facts on global match use estimate four million matches per minute and fifteen hundred billion per year. The article stresses wood quality and sourcing, noting only select timber such as ash lines linden aspen white cedar poplar birch and willow suit match wood. It mentions match by products like doors sashes shingles sidings posts and cordwoods from mills.
Doctor Jacques Bertillon cites a world wide census to argue matrimony boosts longevity. He claims married people live longer than bachelors and widowed individuals, and urges young men to marry while cautioning about monitoring a wife's health for mutual benefit.
Fragmentary note discusses a cheaper concentrated form and references a bot hes and et et eee ae on ae. The text is unclear and includes placeholders and garbled phrases without identifiable persons or organizations.
The origin of France's national war song The Marseillaise is traced to 1792 when Ho uger De Lisle a Strasbourg engineer wrote the words and music after a dinner with Baron Dietrich whose last Rhine wine inspired the composition. It was first sung at Dietrichs house then in Strasbourg public, later at a Marseilles banquet and widely printed for volunteers. The song spurred volunteers to join the republican army as its words and tune became household across France.
The article recounts Dr Hill of Augusta Maine discovering hornet powered wood pulp writing the birth of the wood pulp industry. It describes hornets chewing wood into pulp and the collaboration with a local factory to mimic that process. Logs float to a pulp mill producing sheets of pulp for paper.
A skeptical voice mocks nostalgia for Elizabethan and Tudor eras. It contrasts imagined abundance with cited hardships and luxury of later periods, arguing that earlier times were not the golden age their name implies. The piece dismisses the romance of “good old times” as beggarly boyhood.
A reflective thought on how once a person experiences the joy and peace from exercising their highest faculties they cannot return to lesser, brute faculties. It stresses that all people have faults and should strive to improve, even if those faults seem small.
A British Red Cross Society unit, directed from London by Lord Robert Cecil, surveys and marks graves on the Marne Compiegne and northern France battlefields. Crosses are identified, inked names painted or replaced with weatherproof metal inscriptions, while some graves remain unidentified.
Cape Town supplier E Leeb & Co offers dyed ostrich feathers in multiple widths and lengths from 6 to 25 inches. Available colors include black white grey and black on white with money back if not satisfied. Ordering via postal notes from 33 Colling Street Melbourne.
Arthur Grenbory Outhwaite J.P. asks for association pamphlet with full information. Applications will be promptly done with valuation quoted.
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