Various Quips and Oddities From a Historic Page
Brief sketches and anecdotes cover farming brains versus brawn, a minister rebuke to a bowing elder, equal pay bills for teachers, a Kentucky wedding coin gift, a dog fitted with a wooden leg, whisker taxation talk, marital banter, a math puzzle about births and deaths, and a New South Wales parliamentary anecdote about a goose.
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Satan
New York State
Kentucky
United States
Kansas
New Jersey
Destha
New South Wales
Anid Hia
Bullock Freed After 40 Days Trapped in Hole
Simon Wilcox found a two year old bullock buried up to its back in a five foot hole on Besington Park estate. Officials say it had been missing during Easter Week and survived about forty days without food. Since its release the animal is grazing and gaining flesh.
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Trin Oberon
Bathurst
Simon Wilcox
Besington Park
Wilcox
Terrible epitaph in Hungarian cemetery
A local Hungarian cemetery recalls a grim inscription for the Moritz family. The stone lists a chain of deaths from murder and suicide, ending with a plea for mercy as a literary association notes a £1500 bequest to memorialize the ill-starred family.
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Debresein
Hungary
Joseph Moritz
Sen
Joseph Moritz, Sen
Elizabeth Moritz
Nat
A Word in Season for Dubbo Farmers
A Dubbo Lifesan correspondent urges farmers to curtail wheat area due to drought and rising wheat prices. He argues that smaller plantings now could boost Australian wheat prices next harvest as American and European crops lag. He predicts rains will come and cautions timely sowing to gain from anticipated higher prices.
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Dubbo
Adams voices praise for Chamberlain Tablets as remedies
A. Adams of Havalock Marlborough endorses Chamberlain Tablets as a superior remedy for aromach liver and bowel disorders. He reports long use with great benefit and recommends them to those in need of digestive and hepatic relief. Postal address given in the note.
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A. Adams
Havalock
Marlborough
Furavy AG
Ws Taylor
Bank Hill Unl
W. Lava
Tombngley
Nawate Ee
Victorian Premier Beat drives ad push for Australia
A string of brief items notes political moves and local incidents. Federal Premier Deakin asserts navy control. Orange publicans fined for liquor breaches. two deaths from accidents in Bathurst and Curlewis. a notable railway order. and a claim that Sir Hector MacDonald is dead despite rumors.
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Australia
Lismore
Clyde Engineering
Deakin
Holman
Carruthers
Bathurst Tobacconies
Oliver
Railways
Landa
Boga
W. J. Hanna
Reade
Works
Davia
White Cliffs
Daniel Enwright
Can
Maurice Whalley
Curlewis
Guonedah Hospital
Lady MacDonald
Sir Hector MacDonald
Janly
David Daly
Kurzi
Sydney
Desmond
Sullecors
H. A. Balraclough
Also Mentioned on This Page
Peak Hill
Hearnes
Hearne
Mearne
W. G. Hearne
Geelong
Victoria
Glen Innes Land Board
Avery Hottie
Thomas Hani Peal Hill
Maker Brothers Esire
Peale Hill
Diatrlct
L. F. West
Urdora
Maker Bros
Caswall Street
McPhail & Tomingley
T. G. McFarland
Sheldan
Thomas Hsud
Peak ‘Mill
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