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Newspaper
Horsham Times
Location
Horsham, Victoria, Australia
Date
May 29, 1925
Page
2
A chaotic morning outside the police court has prisoners boarded into a van amid amused officers and a talking elderly woman claiming her “corner Newallan 0” as she jokes with the governor. A series of odd anecdotes unfolds including a sausage prank and a watch theft, ending with a father’s joke about a jawbone in a family-spotlight caption.
A hotelkeeper narrates a comic windup where a joke about missing the boat leads to a chase as diners try to pay. The piece shifts to a string of vignettes: a boy’s remark at beans, a man asked to sleep at home, a family scene of rippling humor, and several short quips about daily life and mistaken errands.
In a humorous dialogue a resident accuses another of borrowing a saw and a confusing exchange unfolds with insistence and laughter. The quarrel centers on the alleged theft of a tool and the mishearing of words.
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