Weighing the world in tiny trivia and wry quips
Brief items note odd facts and sayings from a bygone era including estimates of life span and illness days, sarcastic flourishes about civility and civil servants, farming minutiae, legal notices, and jokes. It mentions weights, postage exemptions, droughts, convicts, and debt bondage in Siam with clipped aphorisms and local color.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
N.S. W
Acre
Ben Hall
Maitland Way
N.S.W
P.P
Singleton
Sydney
Tasmania
Forbes
Bogan
Bulbodney
Special railway rates for starving stock aid in drought areas
The Commissioners implement temporary mileage rates with a 25 percent rebate for transport of hay straw chaff fodder and related feeds used to sustain starving grazing stock. Rebates require a statutory declaration and proof grass failed from drought. No rebates for consignments within 100 miles of Sydney or Newcastle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bydney
Newcastle
Accounting for the Drought
A narrator explains drought woes among settlers attributing the crisis to colonial landscape changes. The tale blends Aboriginal speech and biblical allusions to divine plans, white settlement, and dams, with references to waterholes, grazing, and the resultant hardship for inhabitants.
Humorous Dentists’ Mischief Tragic Result on Miss Barry
A New York correspondent reports a Florence New Jersey girl Miss Barry laughed giggled and hiccoughed for eight hours after a dentist extracted a tooth. Remedies failed water in face keys down back insults and attempts to anger her could not stop the muttered wish to be born without teeth as her laughter continued.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Barry
Florence
New Jersey
Chamberlains Cough Remedy Prompts Kind Words From Grocer
Mr W Robinson of Mornington New Zealand touts Chamberlains Cough Remedy as the best cough medicine for influenza and urges customers to use it. He reports repeat sales and recommends it for children. Available from A W Taylor and Co Peak Hill and J W Lees Tomingley.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. W. Robinson
Grocer
Mornington
N.Z
Hewaya
A. W. Taylor, & Co
Peak Hill
J. W. Lees
Tomingley
Also Mentioned on This Page
Dandaloo
St. Petersburg
Russia
Damsa
Dandela
Moppibosheth Johnson
England
Australia
A. W. Taylor & Co
Tooth’s Ale
Highland Club
McLean’s
Club House
Shimose
Coombs
C. F. Stephens
Aledown
A. Foster
Parkes
W. Clarke
Bogan Gate
Todd and Lowing
Condobolin
J. Peterson
John Bakes
Corneron & Caswell Sts
Baxts
UNION
Bakery
H. Schmidt
Euchie Street
Opticians
Nolan, Time & CO
George St
Boas
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