18 Aug 1908
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Newspaper
Kerang New Times
Location
Kerang, Victoria, Australia
Date
Aug 18, 1908
Page
1
Timetable fragment shows train departures from Melbourne and arrivals at Bendigo and related line stops. Mentions Mitiamo Mologa Pyramid Hill Kerang and Ke Sin a rang with various notes on dep and arr times. The legibility is mixed but items reference standard regional rail services and stop points around Victoria.
On a spring morning a train nearly struck a child on the track near a cottage. The mother screamed as the engine yanked the brakes, the girl saved by bystander John who leaped from the car. The brave act earned praise from the engineer and crowd.
Nearly a century ago a kind minister watched a ragged boy and offered private lessons. The boy rose to a brilliant lawyer and leader in Parliament who later found his old mentor, grateful for the care that shaped his life.
A fragmentary notice describes curious wills stored at Somerset House and at Doctors' Commons. It recounts the 1785 will of William Juckett, long time clerk to Mussie, Fuller and Vallaghan bankers, granting his stores to his sisters and invoking solemn confirmatory language.
In Paris on Rue de Saint Honore a meat salesman staged a silent alarm using a card string to alert him of a burglary while a thief lifted meat. A bystander mother explains to her child the daytime moon, noting it can be seen but appears unlit. A garbled post office note hints at a scandal.
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