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Newspaper
Richmond Guardian
Location
Richmond, Victoria, Australia
Date
May 25, 1918
Page
6
A collage of fragmented vignettes, jokes, quotes, and anecdotes from various sources. It references wartime sentiments, advertisements, travel notes, and human-interest snippets, including playful bits about newspapers, puddings, a snake pie tale, and a war frontline poem. Names, places, and dates are scattered amid the miscellany.
A fragment from Sydney Sun recounts the Old Man guiding BO B B members in the trenches with booze and bravado, the ritual of swearing in, and the harsh realities of war. It follows his later death, the nursemaid jokes, and a hospital reunion that reveals the fragile line between camaraderie and death. The piece blends dark humor with grim scenes in a desert camp and the trenches.
A collection of careless posting incidents from the Pontminster General notes shows a mother's will, a bank draft for £490, letters with names but no addresses, unstamped mail, bank books, gloves, and bags of sweets dropped into posting boxes and apertures.
In Cairo the 1st Division veterans return home to Australia amid joyous but humorous reception. The piece lampoons patriotism and political spectacle as veterans joke about memory, wars fought, and the longing to be back in the desert. The lone Anzac, older and worn, longs for the familiar sand and rain rather than pageantry.
A Kiama seaside crowd watched three trained seals slip away during unloading as Wirtha’s circus opened. Workers, guards, and volunteers chased the trio across town, rope and ingenuity in play, until seals were recaptured and returned to captivity amid the town’s cheers. A separate Wollongong elephant incident described a lump treated as a boil.
A lively column blends tech marvels with social mores. It spotlights an electric washing machine, hosiery fads, bobbed hair, and waistline trends, then moves to Miss Aimee McCulloch’s engagement, fashion economies, and wartime buying pressures shaping women’s wardrobes.
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