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Newspaper
Millicent Times
Location
Millicent, South Australia, Australia
Date
Mar 11, 1899
Page
7
A cooperative central kitchen and living complex is proposed for forty six residences forming a hollow square. A central building will house cooking, washing, coal storage, heating and lighting run by two engineers with an electric dynamo. Second-floor apartments will host skilled laborers. residents elect a board to manage operations.
The author explains medieval dining with a porringer for soup, few spoons, and a shared utensil system. Guests used fingers or borrowed knives to pick meat from a central vessel, often without napkins, and ate in a rough, communal manner.
A college graduate praised for her intellect and literary promise marries soon after graduation. A decade later at a reunion former classmates share varied paths, from music and poetry to teaching. The featured woman, once described as bright and destined for fame, remarks she averages nine cooks a month in her city.
A garbled piece notes briar-root from Fealy and France for pipes, claiming large roots. It quotes a woman asserting the world tests women, then cites railway injuries in Britain with compensation figures and obscure references to routes and damages.
Readable parts show no clear names, dates, or place. The text appears garbled with partial phrases about a patch and a survey but lacks concrete facts to identify a person event or organization.
Joseph Hatton recalls authorities questioning milk digestion after age fifty and muses on dietary habits for the elderly. He cites La bouchere, Mrs Kendall, Charles Macklin, Dean Hook, Carlyle and Jerrold, noting milk’s place in past meals and the debate over its healthfulness versus tea, alcohol, and other drinks.
A survey of monetary forms across cultures and eras. It cites animal wealth in Rome and Zulu regions, tea and silk as currency in Asia, jade and ochre among Austronesians, cocoa and eyes in South America, nails in Scotland, and the famed meconte as an ideal sign of value in Africa.
A detailed description of diamond washing from ore on a repositing floor to the washing machine. Quartz ironstone carbon heavy residues are separated by sieves. diamonds emerge as crystals among garnets after careful washing and sifting.
A humorous tale about Sir James M Garel Hog known as Lord Magheramorne who, after being made a peer, visits a friend and announces himself as Jeannee Lord Magheramorne. The household is startled by the mispronounced title and he pauses, then boldly proclaims The Iste Sir James Hogg causing consternation and amusement.
An unusable text fragment mixes alcohol and salt cleansing advice with garbled crime notes. It mentions a supposed Beaver highway robbery case involving Lawrence Farrell, a divorced woman amid a staged drive, and scattered references to dreams, Italy, and vague statistical figures, all jumbled and unclear.
A gentleman helps a woman and child aboard a tramcar, offers his seat, and shares a playful exchange about the child. The dialogue conveys affectionate remarks, with the child named Annie provoking a light-hearted mispronunciation and warm sentiment from the man.
Thermometers for moderately deep waters have a copper cylinder around the temperature tube to shield it from fish and rocks. A weighted bottom helps sink the device, while a long narrow front door of the cylinder opens to read the temperature. The door seals tightly so the reading remains nearly unchanged as water from the bottom is drawn up.
An improved pow. A. Belfast tradesman offers for sale and brief notice follows. Fragmentary text mentions seat holders, a church, and a gathering or inquiry. Details are unclear but indicate official notice about attendance and a court or jury matter related to a sale and parish affairs.
Home Notes urges women to avoid idleness and find regular occupation. It condemns wasting years on social duties and promotes choosing a serious hobby or pursuit as the path to happiness, arguing mothers who let girls idle are harming them.
While en route to India on the Peninsular and Oriental steamer Poonah in 1876 Blondin performed a rope walk from a mast top about 70 feet high. The ship rocked and rolled, passengers doubted safety, yet Blondin straddled the rope as the captain watched. He clung during heavy rolls and sat on it at times, narrowly avoiding a mishap, ending with a soot-blackened face from the funnel smoke.
A summary of recent Dublin Society papers arguing brain development rather than skull size drives idiotcy. Professors Cunningham and Smith report brain growth determines outcomes, with skulls adapting to brain size, aligning with Sir George Humphrey's findings. Also a humorous captioned cartoon exchange appears.
Observer notes a jumbled exchange amid legal talk about disclosures and a family scene with a parade plan and hot weather. The snippets hint at courtroom tension, casual mutterings about home life, and light domestic banter, with characters Ephraim and Farmer Ubber referenced in a rural setting.
A humorous note on the typewriter’s tendency to spell backward words and phrases. The author speculates about innate writing direction, cites a machine writing its own verse, and quotes a friend describing typewriter poetry as produced by the machine with human help. References include W. L. Allen and Tesrson's Magazine.
Chambers's Journal notes a long distance telegram from Auburn New York to Sydney New South Wales cost 65 dollars. The message traveled via Atlantic Europe Asia to Vladivostok and on through Japan the Yellow Sea and submarine cables ending in Darwin Australia. The journey exceeded 20000 miles nearly the earth’s circumference.
A report describes Hermann Sudermann evading reporters in Vienna by using a false character. An interviewer, misled by a hotel porter, missed the playwright twice. Other reporters failed to obtain any usable copy as Sudermann remained elusive. A Scottish anecdote follows about a cyclist asking for directions in Lanarkshire.
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