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Newspaper
Saint Arnaud Mercury
Location
Saint Arnaud, Victoria, Australia
Date
Oct 06, 1915
Page
1
The fragment discusses bones and skeleton weight, brain to body weight ratios, tooth matter, and skin color. It notes the thigh bone as the strongest bone and includes advice on poultry care, egg production, feeding, and culling birds not producing profit. It also mentions tips on disease avoidance and general husbandry practices.
An old tale recounts a Highland shepherd and a devoted collie’s fierce bond. The dog risks life to guide the shepherd away from a rockfall and into safety while braving winter snows and a remote valley. The narrative also hints at remedies and strange health claims never proven.
A distorted report discusses Good Friday weather, frost effects on crops, and garden yields. It mentions lettuce, green vegetables, and various root crops with quantities and garden club efforts. The piece references garden growth, prices, and local interest in home vegetable gardening amid cold conditions.
A French artist Bouton proudly displays his studio to a visiting monarch, mistaking the scene for a royal audience. The encounter includes a tense exchange over rightful display space, ending with the king asserting his authority and leaving the artist humbly compliant.
An old time advertisement extols an oil bath as a beauty and health tonic. It claims beauty, strength, and nourishment for infants and adults, with rubbing on skin to ease fevers, colds, and coughing, and to loosen nasal congestion and wheeze.
A fragmentary chronicle describes Gaesan’s calendar reform replacing common year with 80 days and a 66 day fourth year, naming July, reshuffling months by odd and even lengths, and attributing the change to Anguatus Caenar amid medical tales and dubious anecdotes. The piece mixes calendar history with garbled medical notes and names.
The notice lists forthcoming court fixtures and civil licensing schedules with dates spanning May through October. It specifies alternating days for civil business and commonalog sessions, with courts meeting on Tuesdays and Thursdays and other days for various civil matters under local authority.
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