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Newspaper
Millicent Times
Location
Millicent, South Australia, Australia
Date
Aug 19, 1899
Page
2
The narrator recalls a violent daytime fight with Charlie over Bella and a dog, the dean’s awkward intervention, and a family uproar. After the clash, the narrator recounts quarrels with his mother, a move to Langley, and his apprenticeship amid growing love for Bella and yearning for a wider world beyond Lichfield.
In a foggy October smithy scene in Lichfield Onesiphorus Cragg greets his son Jim Cragg just home from Australia. Jim’s arrival sparks town fever as locals flood to hear tales of the distant gold country and the promised fortune of the new world.
A collage of light humor including quips about a three year old's not being a twin, a pie dinner joke, a German prince reception aside, and genial exchanges between children, clerics, and adults. It weaves short jokes on domestic life, school, manners, and social scenes with breezy moral undertones.
Fragmentary notes recount early spice trade in London coffeehouses, tea cultivation attempts in Georgia, and curious cultural remarks on Burmese sentiment. It mentions the Rangoon Lunatic Asylum, opium and alcohol in salons, Noah's tomb near Nakhtchevan, a fortress wall, a cassowary at Clifton Zoo, and a dissection revealing a pencil case pocket items and a prayer book.
The text notes odd facts about small birds laying few eggs and a sparrow outbreak pattern linked to cholera, citing European per capita meat and coffee consumption and regional panic. It references Austria and Italy with past epidemics in Hamburg and Marseilles, linking sparrows to disease timing.
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