Wedding and court chatter from a crowded public notice
A collage of humorous excerpts from a gossip page includes a Carlisle Registry Office wedding where the bride rejects the groom and storms out, a coroner’s quip about an offshore injury, and jest about a bridegroom fined for drinking. Other items joke about twins, a fortune from Mrs. Goldwein, sly grog fines, and theater of everyday life with playful social commentary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tye
Willie
Carlisle
Unployer
Penfold
Clerle
Narrandera
Judge and boy witness clash over truth in odd courtroom scene
An 18 year old asks about truth with a quip from a boy as a judge presses for honesty. In a separate vignette a butcher jokes that a vegetarian father will face a violent end after a boy notes the family's dietary change. The butcher then offers a bullock as the vegetarian's fate is depicted.
Is Smoking Injurious
On August South of British Medical Congress Dr FH Tidewell Torquay read a paper on tobacco smoking effects. He argued smoking rests on sentiment, cites nicotine as a deadly poison harming growing boys. He warned of cancer tongue and a link to insanity, noting three million pounds of tobacco consumed annually.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
FH. Tidewell
Torquay
Creation of Woman from Ancient Sanskrit Tale
A translated fragment from The Surging of the Ocean of Time recounts how Twashiri, the Hindu Vulcan, lacked solid elements to make a woman after crafting man. He mixes lunar roundness, serpents, flowers, wind, fire, and more to form a woman, then the man laments she brings both annoyance and longing, a tension that lasts to the present.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Twashiri
Vulcan
Twael
Digestive Tabulen Aids Troubled Stomachs
A Panacea for stomach troubles promotes Le Sheldon’s Digestive Tabulen said to digest meals and ease weary stomachs. Published claim notes a tonic aid by Thue Aivudy Peak Hily.
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Sheldon
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John W. Lees
Tomingley
Caldwell’s Wines
Sydney
Melbourne
Muscat
Ashinlakey
Caldwhheuli& CO
Lake Albert Vineyard
Wagga Wagga
Pitt Street
Thos. Lusk
People’s Tailor
Mingelo Street
Bushell
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