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Newspaper
Peak Hill Express
Location
Peak Hill, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Apr 05, 1907
Page
11
A mysterious object found on a Saturday morning in the Director of Agriculture’s office resembled a small passion fruit but was rough and dull. It reportedly came from a sheep carcass at a Western station. Sheep in rabbit-infested areas eat carcasses, and fur collected in the stomach forms a solid mass that can cause death.
The article surveys marriage ages in Europe and beyond, noting Austria Germany France Belgium Spain Hungary Greece Portugal Russia Saxony Switzerland Turkey India China and other regions. It highlights varied legal and customary ages for men and women, with many countries setting early thresholds and others requiring older ages or religious exemptions.
A short excerpt extols lemon juice and rind for numerous household uses. It touts lemon water as a morning wakeup, a liver aid, and a safer alternative to anti-fet medicines for women. It also describes applications for sore lips, fever thirst, tooth care, headaches, stain removal, and insect bite relief, plus drying lemon peels as kindling substitutes.
Poem recalls youth and classic scenes on the road to Echuca. It laments changing times, drying grass, and depopulated camps as shepherds and stock move on. The speaker wistfully notes fewer campfires and harsher winds on the plains, marking an era lost.
The item catalog covers copper price drops in London, Australia trade in choop skina, Henry Alfred Lenehan named Government Astronomer, and UK beer wine and spirits consumption shifts. It also notes Crown land allocations, a German farmer's sentence in Swakopmund, US child labor figures, clergy appointments, telegraph workers transfers, Forbes district picnic entries, a quotation about dream ownership, a Baptist service interval, a Cunard steward's voyage milestone, police promotions, a typhoid patient incident, and local optical adverts with eye care products.
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