Murderous assault on Mr Smith in remote Australian trek
A 1855 report describes an attack during a trek from Lachlan to the Darling. Jackey the tribal leader blindsides Mr Smith and Mr Moore while five or more blacksfellows lurk nearby. A revolver is fired, Tackey is restrained, and Mr Moore sustains severe head injuries. Dr Machattie is distant over 300 miles away.
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Metropolis
8. Smith
Mulgunnin
Lachlan
Darling
Smith
Upper
Henry
Nicholas Tom
Moore
Jackey
Blackfellow
Mupre
Rovers
Mr. Smith
Savage
Tackey
Black
Tom
Eden Photo Studio portraits in Sydney offer low prices
Photography offers artist proofs at 20s per dozen and other studios charge 30s to four guineas. 12 by 10 cabinet portraits available at 7s 6d per dozen. If unable to visit Sydney, send portraits to Elon Photo Studios on George Street for enlargement.
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Sydney
Eden
Elon Photo
George-street
A Long Fast. Dentist Awakened at Six for Tooth Extraction
A Bathurst dentist was roused at 6 a.m. by a bell and found a patient waiting to have a tooth pulled. He agreed to accept payment after dinner, gave the man brandy to revive him, but three weeks elapsed without any fee. The dentist remains puzzled how anyone could endure so long without dinner.
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Saya
Bathurst
Gambling hubs of Victorian era city revealed in memoir
A writer recalls gambling existed long ago with pubs and peeresses operating openly. A hundred years back, before Queen Victoria’s reign, Crocktor’s on St Janes Street served as a gambling center where fortunes up to a tuillion sterling reportedly changed hands in a single evening.
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Arroros
Danny Cnrogiere
Queen Victoria
Crocktor's
St. Janes Street
Devonghire Club
The Art of Saving Monay
An instructional piece on disciplined money saving. It stresses tracking expenses, setting fixed weekly savings, and avoiding risky speculation. It argues for diversified investments and the use of endowment insurance as both investment and savings for future needs and unforeseen events.
Foibles of Literary Men From an Old Manuscript
A fragmented list of eccentric habits attributed to celebrated authors. Keats liked red pepper in tea, Dickens wore jewelry, Poe slept with his cat and prized his feet, Daudet wore glasses asleep, Thackeray tipped his hat at his own writing room, and others such as Du Bois, Steventon, Browning, Longfellow, Hawthorne, Darwin, and Holmes are sketched with quirky anecdotes about routines, rituals, or odd objects.
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Keats
Dickens
Peayun Miller
Edgar Allan Poe
Daudet
Thackeray
Alexandry
the Younge Dought
Robert Louis Steventon
Robert Browning
Longfellow
Hawiluene
Fil Darwin
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Fragmented ad text on cold remedy and cures
OCR mix of letters and garbled phrases promotes a cold remedy, mentioning Chamberlaine Chugh and Wy Ay Wy usage. It lists providers HAN W. Lows Tomingleys and hints at a remedial product that promises relief and lung strengthening.
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Enen
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High Stakes
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Mr. Malouf
Hume
Sumer
A. W. Taylor
S.A.P
C. F. Stephens
Monay
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