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Newspaper
Saint Arnaud Mercury
Location
Saint Arnaud, Victoria, Australia
Date
Jun 06, 1914
Page
6
A garbled Victorian sketch recounts Rossetti evading Whistler’s questions about a painting, Whistler’s probing frame inspection, and a tense exchange on the artwork’s progress. It also recalls painters like Leigh and Murray, illustrating critics’ comical pretensions and audience misunderstandings.
A couple from the country recounts a journey to New York City seeking a parcel and a humble shop. They describe encounters with a foreign quarter, a shopkeeper misaddressing a failed delivery, and a plea to stay connected to their homeland, ending with gratitude for kindness and faith.
Fragmentary ad style text promotes Warner and Co products for digestion kidney issues constipation and asthma. It lists various ailments and praises their cures with lines about liver and bile toxins and mentions prices and brands in a dense promotional tone.
A shopper notes Robur tea remains top selling with steady quality and year round demand in the UK market. New customers are hard to persuade, profit margins lag behind other teas, and some say No 3 Grade suffices for daily use while Nu Grocer suggests No 2 Grade.
Measrs Stone and Co, meat merchants in Melbourne, report price declines end of last month for porkers and other cuts. Prices quoted include porkers at per pound, welme and other small categories showing slight reductions, with items from country consignors. The firm invites country customers visiting Melbourne to inquire.
Equity Trustees Executors and Agency Co Ltd lists subscribed capital of 925000 and reserved liability of 100000 with guarantee funds of 10000. Registered offices at Queen Street Meld and a board including Edward Fanning, W H Irvine, Donald MacKinnon, A G McCotcheon, and Stewart McArthur. Company empowered by Parliament to act as executor administrator trustee receiver and related roles and to manage or realize trusts funds and estates. Oel Fox is manager with C T Martin as assistant manager.
A fragmented account describes ancient construction methods for a large dam and bridge. Engineers faced a rapid river, thick riverbank quarrying, and heavy stone placement using woolen rollers. Workers hoisted blocks from quarries to elevated placements and positioned bluish slabs, noting the quiet workers and careful lowering of stones as water level rose.
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