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Newspaper
Horsham Times
Location
Horsham, Victoria, Australia
Date
May 11, 1923
Page
2
The readable fragments describe a card party at a social gathering with mention of Mrs Smitherceip and Jamies ik, noting a host and evening activities. Vague references to voting, waters, and refreshments appear amid garbled text from a newspaper page.
A stream of disjointed scenes shows social faces, secrecy, and flirtations as characters navigate pretend personas. Conversations in a store, a telephone box, and a home tension reveal muddled motives, secrecy, and a sense of idle small-town life. The piece mixes overheard lines, anonymous urges, and domestic impulses.
A prison governor promotes a kinder system with reforms for inmates including scrapping the broad arrow, relaxing the silence rule, extending the honor system, and increasing concerts and lectures. Prison life would be less terrible, though some confinement and stricter diets remain a last resort.
Reports warn of influenza whooping cough and measles spreading across Australia with numerous pneumonia cases leading to deaths. The article advocates regular mouth and throat hygiene and recommends Heenso preparations as a preventive measure, including Heenso Cough Diamonds for those preferring pastilles.
An American millionaire recalls starting from poverty after early setbacks and warns that illness hinders success. The piece urges recognizing opportunity and endorses Warner's Safe Cure to restore kidney and liver function, noting the remedy stimulates elimination of poisons and bile.
A garbled OCR passage depicts a young class and a house visit, mentioning a master, children, a lady of the house, affectionate interactions, and a riddle about a glass house and reflections. Names and clear actions are obscured, yielding a poetic but unclear scene.
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