The Lottery Barber of Laverick Wells Falls to a Trick
In Laverick Wells the barber Mr Bousfield dominates local betting amid a trove of small wagers and wary rivals. Superintendent Binks engineers a cunning trap by using railway paper to back Jester, luring Bousfield into a covert scheme. Bousfield is convicted and fined twenty pounds, ending a chaotic bout of betting in the spa town.
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Laverick Wella Spa
Mr. Bousfield
Bousfield
Laverick Wells
Cost
Pipkin
Moss
Sousfield
Jorced
London
Spa
Laverick Wella
Binks
Bonafield
Young Tubbs
Tubbs
Little Bousfield
Jester
Mr. Tubbs
Tobbs
Bobby
Buusfield
Mr. Binks
Smashom Company
Bousfeld
Blackguard
Flying fish delivers strange sea dispatch to newsroom
A reporter finds a note wrapped in an Age article tied to a flying fish on Sumlay Bay. The message, from a traveling correspondent aboard the Khartoum canoe, chronicles sea voyage misadventures from Queenscliff to the Suez, with sly jabs at newspapers and malodorous whiskey.
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Sumlay
Steck
Soudon
New South Wales
Victoria
Khartoum
Ednesday Lith
Yarra
Queenscliff
Suez
Russia
Mayland
Sinc
Anyboy
Fir-Arts
Mistaken Cow Retraction Incident at Local Paper
An irate subscriber storms the editor’s den demanding a retraction after a newspaper accuses him of carrying a cow. The editor dodges the claim as the man asserts lawfulness, then notices his boots reveal the error and pays for another year, leaving with a smile.
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Trate
Boots
Burglar Keeps Bedtime Company At St Kilda Home
Mr Jones hears a noise under the bed and jokes that Fido might be the intruder. The burglar, listening, licks his hand as Jones checks, and both sleep unaware until morning to find most of the house looted.
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Jones
St. Kilda
Sam
Fido
Australian Alligator Ruse Ends With Nitro Demise
Fragmented humor and colonial quips fill this column with tall tales from northern waters. Boys trap an aquatic nuisance using a buoy laced with nitro glycerine, triggering a dramatic river explosion and a cautionary moral about boys being boys.
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Bowen
Alligator
Policeman Overlooked After Bridge Rescue
A police constable saves a boy who falls from Falls Bridge by asking a passerby if he can swim, then passing the rescued child to the other boy who had fallen in. The rescue ends with the boy who fell in saved, while the constable receives no promotion.
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Falls Bridge
Paragraph writer vacancy at the paper
A humorous exchange shows an editor offering a paragraph writer post to a journalist who claims long London experience. The candidate boasts three paragraphs already prepared as he proclaims he can be a wheelbarrow, highlighting a light newsroom anecdote about job readiness and wit.
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TP Lave
Lon'on
Conundrums in a Chaotic Dialogue
A garbled exchange shows two Black individuals presenting a riddle with fragmented phrases. The speakers volley odd lines about a chair, a date, and a vent while hinting at a wider confusion or disagreement. The text reads as rough speech and partial thoughts without coherent narrative.
Footman Fantasia Ends in Royal Romance Reversal
A mocked nobleman posing as a footman disrupts a fashionable family causing a chase and a reveal. Miss Eva rejects a nobleman, then accepts a captain after a convoluted sequence as the household pursues the impostor Charles Le Grandchand through misadventures.
Faceting To what geological formation does rock the cradle belong
A collage of anecdotes and quips framed as a humorous column. It riffs on misheard phrases bold claims, and light social banter from travel to domestic life with brisk, mnemonic vignettes. The piece uses playful dialogue about manners, marriage, and common social scenes.
Latest agony in stockings and a bath gift
The item mocks stockings and cites flawed fashions while noting Erastus Wiman has donated two public bath houses to Toronto. It recalls a British explorer snickering at Americans as uneducated and remarks on signs mis-spelling woman’s.
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Brusse
Erastus Wiman
Staten Island
Toronto
Wiman's
Expurion
Sol
Uncertain Phrase Credits Bookmaker With Closing Pocket-book
A cryptic line reflects a bookmaker claiming credit as he shuts his pocket-book amid trouble. The fragment hints at gambling language and a scene of decision or decline. No clear names, places, or events are present in readable text.
The Position of Turkey as a Skeleton on Easter Monday
A humorous derisive view of the Turkey issue compares the country to a skeleton on Easter Monday with parts missing and only scraps remaining, suggesting the situation is exhausted and unpalatable for readers.
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Turkey
Rumor of Melbourne Police Involvement in London Gossip
The Horsham Times notes a circulating rumor about Melbourne police being sent to London but clarifies it originated from a mistaken report. The misunderstanding centers on a Chinese gambling prosecution and allegations of a police Sneak A' involvement.
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Wimmera
Horsham Times
Melbourne
London
Flour attack in police court shocks elderly woman
Powers threw a parcel of flour at an old woman during a police meeting and was arrested. He faced assault charges the next day. The woman refused to drop the case despite defense efforts. She insisted the case proceed, noting the flour burst over her clothes and she felt no lasting harm.
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Charles le Grandchand
Charles
Ofvertar
Olarclanery Conptonanes
Everton
Enid
Mariah Jane
Mariah
M.J
Eva
Sain
Eulalia
George
Melbourne
Johnny
Thomas Muscovy
Martin Luther Benson
Muscovy
Martin Lather
Martin
Mary
Marm
Pat
Powers
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Scratchley
Great Britain
Forest Creek
Chewton
Millly
Mnelu
Moses
Vaterland
Call
Melbourne General Cemetery
Uall
The
Salvation Army
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England
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Gladstone
Gordon
Conundrums
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Peron
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