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Newspaper
Peak Hill Express
Location
Peak Hill, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Jul 22, 1904
Page
12
A narrator recovering from a tense moment with Bertha and her baby Ernest Ambrose describes the child’s odd gaze and a tense exchange. Ernest argues with wit about his life and parents, then chides the narrator for misnaming him as “it.” The scene ends with playful mischief as the baby strikes with a ninepin.
A Franciscan sister returning from Hawaii reports that leprosy is not inherited by children. She tended Lepers’ children for 11 years in Molokai and says none developed the disease later. Science Siftings quotes Dr James Nevins on nontransmissibility, noting heredity lies only in predisposition under favorable environment.
A historical note describes adders in England noting color variation from yellow to copper red and green. It explains the difference from the grass-snake, its rare swimming, and the curious two apparent eyes on its head that resemble a stare while real eyes watch for fangs.
A Daily Mail correspondent reports four tall Guardsmen with an infantry major arrived to reform the Macedonian gendarmerie. The force largely consists of aging Turkish troops, many past active service, who seek extra pay or food from villagers as pay is reduced. Despite the Turkish troops’ strength in Macedonia, local turbulence could overwhelm the gendarmerie.
Sir Donald Currie, recently honored by University College and University College Hospital with a gift of one hundred thousand pounds, began as a shipowner. He rose from small boy with toy boats to leading the Union Castle Line, expanding from East Indies trade to South Africa and amassing a noted autograph book of celebrity passengers and a Lord Alfred Tennyson clay pipe as treasured mementos.
George Hallam 55 a Camberwell draughtsman was found guilty of administering chloroform to his son Henry Lawrence Hallam aged fourteen and a half with intent to murder or grievous bodily harm The jury added he was deluded at the time and the judge sentenced him to penal servitude for life Daily Telegraph
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