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Newspaper
Queanbeyan Observer
Location
Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Jan 04, 1907
Page
1
A courtroom scene features counsel arguing land boundaries with plans. One side claims “We lie on this side,” the other retorts “And we lie on that side.” The judge wryly interjects asking whom the jury should believe.
Early in the day Mark Twain returns home without a necktie. His wife scolds him for visiting Stones again. A neighbor, Mrs S, is sent for and given a box containing a black silk necktie and a note claiming the tie was left by Twain half an hour earlier.
A historical collection notes Chinese character through proverbs. Examples compare leadership blindness, age differences in marriage, and moral likeness through a prince and his minister, a man and his companion, and a father and son.
Mrs Staggered, grieving her husband’s death, asks the printer about death notice rates. The clerk replies two shillings per inch, prompting her exclamation that two shillings an inch—her husband’s six feet—seems excessive in a humorous local scene.
Fragmentary dialogue features a pessimist beneath a prosperity tree and a reporter engagement joke. Separate voices discuss secrets, paper coverage, silence and a string of asides about a wife, a parrot, a child, a phonograph, and a barber.
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