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Newspaper
Peak Hill Express
Location
Peak Hill, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Aug 09, 1907
Page
10
A father and son stroll a cemetery and read epitaphs, the boy asks where wicked people lie, prompting a quiet musing on mortality. The excerpt highlights innocence and curiosity amid tombstones.
A sixteen year old burglary suspect in Geneva confessed his guilt saying he suffers from heredity. He claimed his father and brother have been jailed for burglary and theft, his sister got twenty years for murder, and he would kill the resident if discovered. The judge ordered a mental examination.
A newlywed couple aboard an up mail train corridor car faced whispering and sniggering from other passengers. The groom, described as a man of tremendous size, shouted that they were married and intended to continue affectionately, ending the torment of the carriage and remaining in peace for the remainder of the journey.
The piece notes Maori elders, especially women, hold the high honour of cooking, leaving much labor to them while younger members enjoy leisure. It highlights the Mapai people’s seeming simplicity masking cunning, with tapu and chiefs enforcing labour division and collective disaster upon breaches.
A convict serving life and his gaoler’s daughter married in Ypres after a civil ceremony at Town Hall attended by four gendarmes. They then held a religious service in the chapel before the groom returned to his cell. A petition for pardon circulates locally.
A local testimonial from Moss JA Roger and Co Williams town Viv. reports rapid relief from mumps using Chamberlains Pain Balm. After applying balm and a neck bandage overnight, pains and swollen glands subsided by morning and the ailment cleared in days.
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