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Newspaper
Millicent Times
Location
Millicent, South Australia, Australia
Date
Nov 04, 1899
Page
7
Castaways aboard a desolate coast endure bleak weather and failed rescue attempts. A noble ship appears offshore, sparking hope before it slips away, leaving four survivors to mourn Mrs Rand and orphaned child while awaiting inevitable fate.
Four years on a remote island, hopes for rescue fade until a Christmas morning gale and fog reveal a ship. Joseph Born proclaims salvation as the group rushes to Crow's Rest to secure freedom and begin their return.
The group endures a bitter night of cold rain and hunger after a great loss. They stagger across sodden ground in pain, feel crushed by affliction, and drift toward home while awaiting faint signs of rescue. Despair deepens as days pass and morale falters aboard the ship.
The Swede recalls a night dream of a rescue schooner as the group endures long delays and a failing craft. Our four year old charge grows, and attempts to sail again face cave dangers on the lower lake. A scattered miscellany of anecdotes follows, from a post mortem joke to local customs and fruit tree planting on Austrian railways.
A fragmentary narrative follows a perilous sea ordeal as survivors scramble for escape. Signal from below confirms safety as dawn reveals the island's perilous coast and a child’s innocent joy amid danger.
A UK newspaper notes the Be, Andrews lodge in Halifax marks its anniversary as the oldest Freemarine lodge in a British colony. Other items cover Atlantic island discovery, Elizabethan tree plantings, venomous Central American spiders, and a string of curiosities from Peru to Monte Carlo.
A light scene features a student asking to be measured for boots with no money, a shoemaker offering a loan wait, and a joke about making shoes next month. Other snippets show a painted balcony mishap and a courting dilemma about marriage and keeping promises amid a rigid suitor.
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