News in Brief From a Distant Town Chronicle
Last year Canton hat mills consumed 1,500,000 rabbit skins. Two men fined for marbles on a footpath at Bydnes. Rutherglen butcher King killed and dressed a bullock for a wager. In Newtown Police Court a mother admitted her 11-year-old son was often drunk. Postmaster General moves to curb indecent picture postcards. Seymour corrected a wrong claim about a mare. Gibson Bros. tout shearing supplies competing with Sydney. Parliament urged to investigate child gun accident deaths in New South Wales. American clerics consider refusing tainted funds for religious purposes. Burke and Wills survivor James Lane claiming 108 pension weekly. West Kempsey man risks pony with kerosene and sulfur, horse burned. Tom Stanford dislocated shoulder after bicycle fork broke. MacCarthy treating. Mrs. Ryan of Laurieton had a 45 lb tumor removed at Taree Hospital after 50 pints fluid drained. New Zealand report: Cook Islands liquor bans drive natives to Florida water. Hamburg: oyster with £150 pearl found. Berlin court rules guest entitled to contents. Red hot jokers near Wyalong. Stanley burned cheeks lighting gunpowder pipe. St Kilda youths jailed for cat abuse. fined £16. For colds use Hopington’s Trieh Moeu.
Wool buyers warn of inconsistent Australian wool packing
A circular from wool buyers in Leipsig and read across England criticizes the current state of Australian wool. It notes loss of superior classing and packing, with same brand bales showing varying fleece quality and yield. It urges flock owners to restore former standards of classing and packing.
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Leipsig
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Australia
Ben Hall Gang Bushranger Johnny Vane Showed at Bathurst
In Bathurst Show history Johnny Vane a Ben Hall gang member appeared in a Variety Show. The note recalls the gang robbed Keightly's homestead near Bathurst and Mrs Keightly rode to Bathurst with £500 in notes seeking mercy. Vane, long presumed dead, lived on a Woolstock farm after Darlinghurst Gaol and later attracted a showman’s plan to exhibit him as the sole living bushranger.
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Ben Hall
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Bathurst
Johnny Vane
Mr. Keightly
Vane
Darlinghurst
Woolstock
England
Portland banker Jacques Messer’s wartime marriage gains notice
The Muztuovexe paper reports Jacques F. Messer formerly a clerk at the Union Bank Portland branch has wed Miss Sophie de Wet in Johannesburg. Messer, who went from Portland to Perth with a Western Australian contingent, earned a lieutenant’s commission and was wounded in battle. He later stayed in the Transvaal and became acquainted with General Christian de Wet, whom he has now married.
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Muztuovexe
Jacques F. Messer
Vlerk
Portland
Union Bank
Johannesburg
Sophie de Wet
Christian de Wet
Messer
Perth
South Africa
Transvaal
de Wet
Butter Curing Method Promoted by Scotch Farmers
A historical note describes a butter curing method once used by Scottish farmers. It mixes two parts common salt one part sugar and one part saltpetre, then blends and uses an ounce per bit of butter. The butter should cure three weeks to a month before use, with a farmer praising its economic improvement over salt alone.
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Walt
Treatment for barren cows with yeast injections
The article reports a yeast-based treatment for infertile cows gaining calving after simple steps. It describes vaginal warm water irrigation followed by an injected yeast paste prepared from active yeast and warm water and kept warm before insertion. The claim is that yeast microbes combat acid conditions hindering conception.
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America
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Bydnes
Rutherglen
King
Ilmin
Newtown
Seymour
Gibson Bros
Sydney
New South Wales
James Lane
West Kempsey
Tom
Stanford
Ryan
Laurieton
New Zealand
Cook Islands
Florida
Hamburg
Berlin
Wyalong Way
Stanley
St. Kilda
Melbourne
Hoppington
Caswell Street
Peak Hill
Marcus Clark & CO
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Marcus Clark 400, Ltd, “Verhans, Haare
Sydney, N.S.W
D. Mitchell & Co., Ltd
Newcastle
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