Rules of a Successful Merchant to Guide Clerks
A retired merchant who rose from clerk to general manager shared a written set of rules used to guide his career and taught to his own clerks. He emphasizes ownership mindset, product knowledge, a pleasing personality, proactive selling, stock study, and learning from experience to improve sales. He notes that pleased customers boost sales and that salesmanship exceeds simple order taking. He urges understanding human nature and applying constant self-improvement.
Robur Tea Promises Consistency and Wholesome Flavor
A speaker praises self sufficient cooking while asserting control over the kitchen and ordering, then extols Robur tea as good wholesome and consistently flavoured, suitable for tea travelers and refusing interruptions. The tone reflects a self confident home style and product endorsement.
Earmestness Builds the Ladder of Chance and Effort
The excerpt contrasts happy talent and fortune with the need for steady hard work. It emphasizes that success comes from thorough, ardent, and sincere effort, noting that ladders to advancement must be made of durable material and cannot rest on luck alone.
Private Since The War A Curio In A Hotel
In a hotel a group of high ranking Civil War veterans argued over a battle. A small man claimed authority, saying he could settle it as he was there. He reveals he was a private. The proprietor refuses to bill him, stating you are the first private I have ever met.
Father Time Bedtime Joke From An Inerplant Humorist
A humorous exchange between a father and son features Father Time pictured with a scythe to symbolize life's brevity. The senior Tobwith explains time cuts down, while the son ponders a future when Time is no longer a mower and the father shifts to bedtime.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tommy Tobwith
Tobwith
Tommy
Bar parlour boasts of brides and bank accounts
In a snug inn bar two young men boast of marrying for money as a third warns against it. An old collier recalls fifty years of marriage with Betsy Jane, splitting a scant purse and joking that even quarrels end with a marginal coin.
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Jane
Tailor Refuses Payment for War Time Workhouse Bill
In the war era troops billeted in workhouses and one officer sought novelty by paying a tailor’s bill from The Workhouse. The tailor replied by post, declining the debt and offering to send a ten pound note to assist, expressing regret at the low payment.
Protecting Water Tanks With Biturine Coating
Farmers facing high galvanised iron prices can extend tank life by coating inside walls with Biturine rust preventative. The solution, used widely for iron and steel, doubles tank life when applied new and is inexpensive. Biturine is Australian made and exported to America and the West. full usage directions and distributor details are advertised.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Australia
America
West
Reliable home remedy for colds and bronchitis
An advertisement promotes HEENZO a home cough remedy by mixing with water, claiming relief from asthma bronchitis colds and sore throats. It contrasts with ready made potions cost savings and lists HEAN S TONIC NERVE NUTS as a blood nourishing product for nervous girls with price details and availability.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Heenzo
Henn
Nater
Hean
Painting and Iron Work for Farm Implements and Structures
Auctioneer offers painting, milling, and iron and steel work including farm implements, silos, chimneys, cattle and sheep troughs, windmills, suction gas plants, and ammonia works. Bids welcomed from builders and metalworkers for repairs and fabrication.
King Christian IX Dies at Eighty Eight in 1908
On January 29 1908 King Christian IX of Denmark died aged eighty eight. He had long been the world’s eldest reigning monarch and began life in obscurity earning a scant income by giving drawing lessons. At his death he was grandfather to the Czar of Russia and father to monarchs in Greece Britain Portugal Norway and Sweden. His children linked many royal houses including the Dukes of Orleans and Cumberland. The European courts entered mourning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Christian IX
Denmark
Alexandra
Daniha
Czar
Russia
Grecce
Great Britain
Norway
Thyron
Duke of
Cumberland
Waldemar
Mario
Orleana
Duke
Orlenna
Portugal
Aosta
Frederick VII
Loulac
Carl XV
Sweden
Greece
Italy
Orleans
Christian
Preacher Tries Debtors Test in Sermon
A preacher uses a census of debts to test the congregation. He asks those who pay debts to stand, then those who do not to sit, prompting an almost unanimous rise except for one man who stands and explains he always speaks the truth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Y.M.C.A
A. 9. Blackburn
South Australian
Returned Soldiers’ Association
Australia
Alwara
German officer mocks boy over jackass on Belgian road
In Belgium a German officer jokes with a boy leading a jackass. He asks the boy the animal’s name and is told a punny reply that plays on loyalty to the king, prompting a stingy back-and-forth exchange about naming the animal Wilhelm.
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Belgium
Albert
Offear
Wilhelm
From Gallipoli to Bang Dad by Padre William Ewing
Humor and pathos blend in a tale from Gallipoli as an Irish soldier in a field hospital endures wounds and morphia. A young subaltern boasts of lineage while a Major questions his mother, and jokes about engagement and love punctuate grim scenes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gallipoli
Bangdad
William Ewing
Thera Ja
Indigestion cures advertised by Warner’s Safe Cure
Letters from Hobart and Kensington sufferers praise Warner’s Safe Cure for long standing indigestion and related symptoms. One ex-detective says ten bottles brought back appetite and relief after years of pain. Another woman claims complete relief from stomach pain headaches and insomnia after a course, with sale details cited.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Melbourne
Warner
Tie
Anecdotes and Quips From a London Trip
A collection of humorous vignettes and misheard sayings recounted by Aberdonians in London and travelers aboard ships and trains. It includes a yarn about losing luggage due to a cork, a negotiating salesman and customer over red flannel shirts, a sentimental maiden seeking sympathy only to learn a frolic mishap, and a grocer’s boy teased by an old lady. Also features a guard’s quip about a danger signal and a playful exchange on a station quay.
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Waal
Sam
A V A D in France tale of ale and port requests
Miss Oliya Dent recalls a humorous World War I vignette in which a medical officer faces a patient who asks for two bottles of Bass a day and jokes about trading for his galf. The scene, told with humorous asides from Mrs Snooks and Mrs Hingley, diverges into temperance and home front wit.
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Oliya Dent
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Workers Compensation Fire Accibeys
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Dalgetyy 4& Co. Ltd
Ganaral Agame
Victoria
Blackburn
Ward & CO
Collins ST
Memtera
Addrians Viras
Wardankoq
Thomas
James
Mowey
A.C. Millar
Queen St
Melo Vame
Hyland
Hylands
David Hyland & Sons Pty. Ltd
Sennitt's Freezing Works
Wright
Counter Rules
Bass
Tha Cook
Union Manufacturing & Agency
Elizabeth Street
Malbourne
Spencer Street Station
Stone & CO
Robert Schulte
Wholesale Commission Meat
North Melbourna
the Equity Trustees, Executors 4& Agency Co. Ltd
Babacrbed Capital
Ragistaread
QUEEN
Donald Mackinnon
M.L
Stewart McArthur
H.C
Robt
G. McCutcheon
Joel Fox
C.J. Martin
the Union Trustee Co
Collins S.T
Alge
Sydney
Brisbane
Samuel Cooke
J. M. Carroll
Azo
Lawrence
Osrei
Lawrence Praccas
R.B. LA _. LAWRENCE
Dyer and Cleaser
Northcote
Folly
Bes
Bryan Bros, Windrajit
Golac Vig
C. E. Hall
Department B
Mckillop
Europe
Fred
George Franklin
Bathurst At
Hobart, Tas
Dora McDonald
Cracken St
Kensington, Vic
Starekeapara
Ita
Canada Cycle & Motor Co.vic. Pty. Ltd
Latrobe Street
Delco Self Lighting & Starting
Dalgety & Co.ltd
Coffey Bros
Church
Richmond
Dod Mike
Pat
Douglas MacLaren
London
King's Cross
Feather
Scotland
Aweel
Grocer's
Atr
Bourke Et
Ilia
Ganaral
Bourke Street
Collins Street
Pusha
Elougehehbra Amd Ginal
J. Bartram & Son Pty. Ltd
Wm. Haughton & C
Little Collins
Fison’s
Maize Products Pty. Ltd
APOS
Felton, Grimwade & Co
Nadia Swedem
Sed
Langwill Bros. & Davies
Sturt St
South Melbourne
W. Reynolds & Son Pty.ltd
Metropolitan Meat Market
North Melbourne
Wat
Women's and Children's Hospitals
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