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Newspaper
Millicent Times
Location
Millicent, South Australia, Australia
Date
Jun 24, 1899
Page
2
Aubrey Scott narrates a household comic struggle over saving for bicycles amid romance and social pressures. Ted and the narrator tension economic thrift, tennis club plans, and garden duties while chasing a frugal summer life, leading to a yearlong effort and an eventual stalemate.
The fragment lists three largest English counties by area as Yorkshire 822,851 statute acres, Lincolnshire 1,167,879 acres, and Devonshire 1,655 acres. It also names populations for Lanouieire Middlesex 2,920,185 and York 886,564.
The fragment recalls a temper lecturer who mocks drink while drinking whisky, and a practical joke about not taking water without whisky. It mentions Roewini born on February 8 and his leap year birthday, plus Pesaro planning a celebration for a recurring event.
A young man was about to be robbed when two strangers stopped to admire his bicycle. They debated wheel weight and claimed racing feats. One challenged the owner to a ride and sped off, prompting the other to chase before both fled.
The article describes anchor fishing as a drift method used by sloops and schooners along coasts and in bays to recover lost anchors. Recovered anchors fetch about two pence per pound, with large finds worth around fifty pounds, while typical anchors weigh from one to two hundred pounds. It also mentions studies on insect wing frequencies by Lubbock and Marey, noting the house fly and bee produce rapid sounds, and describes Marey's experiment measuring wing strokes using smoked paper and clockwork.
A French staphologist argues that the letter T’s shape encodes personality. The vertical line marks life’s fatality while the horizontal bar shows human will. Ideality lies above, practicality below, with optimists and pessimists crossing their Ts differently. An enormous tusk fragment is noted as 16 feet long.
Captain Luther D. Burners, a native seaman, reports a whistling eel seen recently in Mecox New Brunswick. The creature was fourteen feet long and as broad as an eight barrel keg, according to his account.
A fragmentary verse excerpt presents a dialogue where a dead beloved asks for one hour of rest to spend with the living. The speaker recalls their quarrels and notes that the hour has been sold, reflecting on memory and loss. The lines invoke themes of mortality and reconciliation in a somber, antiquated voice.
A garbled snippet references detest cards, a bold claim about hands and a father, and mentions a prohibition on playing since the death of Algboneon in Spain. The text is incomplete and lacks clear dates or events to confirm specifics.
Fragmentary notes mention Avltsbergans smohoen and Heb ol ichena and a Saworing planta with a yellow ic poppy. Readability is limited, but the fragment hints at a northern exploration or plant reference tied to a Saworing genus and a distinctive yellow poppy.
A faded recipe details butter and sugar creamed, eggs beaten, and flour sifted with baking powder. It lists currants lemons almonds and bitter almond extract, with milk to form a batter. The batter is baked in a tin for about an hour and a half in a moderate oven.
Directions describe creaming butter and sugar, then adding brandy and mace. Separate eggs, beat yolks and whites separately, fold in flour and whites, bake at moderate oven about fifty minutes for two loaves.
A vintage bake tutorial for a two loaf raisin cake. Ingredients include butter, milk, raisins, spices, sugar, flour, brandy, soda, and eggs. The process details soaking raisins, creaming butter and sugar, folding in egg whites, layering batter with raisins, and baking for two hours. The note claims the cake keeps well.
Soak a quarter ounce of isinglass in a half pint of cold water for three hours then boil quietly. Steep three quarters of an ounce of Iceland mosaic in one quart of cold water, then boil and simmer down to a half pint. Add the previously boiled isinglass, sweeten to taste with wine sugar and flavor with lemon juice.
A fragmented culinary note describes Angel's Food Cake ingredients and method including whites beaten stiff, sugar sifted, and no pan buttering, plus a French Crafters dough with salt milk butter and sugar, rolled dough cutouts, and an apple rice bake with sweet sauce served hot.
A Mississippi girl faced two lovers and proposed a foot race for the prize. The first race ended in a tie, but the second led to marriage with Ure as the winner.
Recipe notes on braising lamb breast using stock lemon peel bacon onions bay leaf and herbs. Simmer gently until tender. Belled macaroni may be served with this dish if liked.
A vintage recipe describes beating butter and sugar, then whisking in eggs and flavorings. The method shows pouring into moulds, topping with almonds and sugar, and baking forty minutes in a moderate oven.
A fashion notes piece surveys artificial flowers and hats. It describes Parisian millinery with Parma violets violet leaves and aigrettes, willow green straw bonnets trimmed with velvet and tulle, and a Concours Hippique fan-like bonnet with rhinestone lattice. It nods to 18th century colors and patches from antique dress history and Massillon’s sermon influence on use of patches.
In a humorous courtroom style exchange a bridegroom demands the remaining ten dollars of his bride's dowry. The father-in-law quips that his daughter swallowed that ten dollars as a child, turning the moment into a lighthearted street scene.
A skit shows a mother and Mrs Bardroom debating a boarder who allegedly hypnotised a boy, forced him to eat cheese cookies, and woke with earful musical disruptions. Starboarder and Bordroom members comment on Wagner music unsettling their mornings.
A Hungarian hygientat collects statistics on Nile dwellers and finds that those whose work or poverty forces them to live in upper levels die first, followed by those on the third or fourth floors, then those on the ground floor.
An OCR damaged snippet recalls a youthful Gladstone in an examination room. A humorous exchange with an examiner prompts a grimace as a corrupt from an unseen source erupts. The text is garbled, with many illegible phrases and stray names, yielding little coherent reporting.
Fragment from a late 19th century column discusses substitutes for the House of Lords. It highlights a women led idea called the Permanent of Ladies and includes quotes from Mrs. Sarah Grand advocating cautious consideration of how to abolish the Lords. The piece also weaves in a humorous poem request and a domestic vignette about a wife and mother.
The article notes a shift toward brunette dominance in England and across Europe. It cites a calculation claiming 785 percent of brunettes have husbands compared with 6 percent of blondes, arguing men favor darker hair. It suggests English men prefer dark-haired wives, a trend seen across Germany France and Switzerland.
In the SheMeld area the Active Marm attends a church where a school mistress wields authority during services. A recent Sunday a grandfather with an unruly grandchild wagged a long finger and whispered Hist There s that missus. The following Sunday an anonymous parent whispered Miss please look at May she is a naughty girl.
A Bristol doctor devises a tactic for a patient who avoids exercise. He gives him spectacles with painted images of two pretty girls in front of him. The patient pursues the vision during his walks but never catches them, continuing until he loses weight and is cured.
A fragmentary collage contrasts fables and quotes from Browne and modern quips. It mentions a fish parable about care and departure, a quincunx of heaven remark, and notes on pedantry, Welsh rabbits, a coroner and chemist exchange, plus Paris theatre receipts for the year 1895, illustrating literary digressions and curiosities from a bygone era.
Fragmentary OCR text mentions names Gavrond and a cycle in Sendan with unclear wording. No coherent event or specifics to anchor a proper summary.
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