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Newspaper
Shepparton News
Location
Shepparton, Victoria, Australia
Date
Jul 09, 1914
Page
5
Angus Galbraith wrestles with shocking family news and a telegram as his mother dies after learning of a stranger letter. In London Nellie Charlton, a Broadway dancer, juggles love requests from Eric Galbraith and a dangerous past as she falls into fear and temptation. A pistol appears as tension peaks in a seedy lodging.
M Ivan Sopornowski, Rugalan millionaire once wary of cars, left £20,000 to any airman who could fly his coffin to the grave in an aeroplane. Posolf, a young man, accepted and flew the coffin in a biplane to the cemetery, barely landing safely. Relatives ultimately paid him the £20,000 from the estate.
Bramarck, disdainful of women who seek political roles, visits the Russian Embassy in Berlin where clever women engage him in dialogue. Bismarck is brusque to all, sparing even Countess Schouvalert, until he departs. A dog barks in the courtyard prompting the countess to beg, in a gentle plea, for mercy from the chancellor.
A clipped reminiscence recalls Thomas Edison as a telegraph operator facing roach infestations. He bet he could kill them using tin can lunch containers wrapped with narrow tinfoil ribbons forming an electrical circuit to electrocute the pests. The method involved placing foil circles on cans and a battery to complete the circuit, killing the roaches when they bridged the two ribbons.
In a lecture at the Institute of Hygene, Mr J Strickland Goodall warned that temperament rises heart work. He claimed anger increases heart muscle work from 152 to 224 foot pounds per minute and that rest on Sunday can reduce this burden by about 76,000 foot pounds over nine years.
A garbled, partial text hints at a quirky court document or diary fragment. Names and places are unreadable, leaving ambiguous references to a turkey and an oven among stray characters. The readable bits suggest a nonsensical, private note rather than a formal item.
Public prosperity is a tree with agriculture as its root and commerce as branches. Well-kept fences protect crops and stock and pay in protection. A farmer must love the work, be active, diligent, and economical, stay educated, and maintain good care of stock and feed to build wealth.
Sir Alexander Bell pursues a study on a Nova Scotia farm to breed sheep with four teats and twin births. He notes higher four-teat incidence among twin producers, creating a line of ewes with four evenly sized teats through mating four-nippled stock, though fertility varies.
A tough debt case is confronted by a debt-collection agent who meets a reluctant artist. The man owes £3 to a restaurant and resists payment, claiming instalment plans for shoes and preferring to avoid social interaction with tradespeople. The encounter ends with the artist returning to painting, uninterested in drinks or socializing.
A historical note explains a Chinese method of hatching fish spawn by incubating spawn in emptied hen eggs. Eggs are filled with spawn, sealed, brooded by hens, then the contents are hatched and the fry raised in warm water before transfer to freshwater ponds. The passage notes early use of incubators in China predating similar devices in other countries.
The article notes blind individuals can master watchmaking, citing Rippin of Lincolnshire born blind yet capable of assembling delicate components with precision. A thief was caught with stolen wheels and screws on his person, identified by Rippin through tactile skill, while a Barostape maker mentored a blind apprentice who proved highly adept at diagnosing faults others missed.
A collection of humorous vignettes features a doctor quitting committees for life, eccentric customers testing garment guarantees, and rural Ireland's astonishment at early motor vehicles. Jests about weathered clerics, practical jokes, and simple folk accompany tales of clever crooks and mistaken miracles in a mash of regional humor.
Cold weather sewing tip urges flannel as best material to keep a child warm. Pattern No 46 from Every Lady's Journal offers two sizes for four to eight year old children. Pattern costs ninepence from local agents or can be mailed post free by sending exact pattern number and size to Dept A. 379 Swannaton Street Melbourne. Send penny stamp with address to obtain a free 48 page catalogue.
An Indian railway tale recalls a writer's sleepless night on a moving train found useful obscurity by buttoning a lamp and his wife's skirt. A raucous platform scene ensues with a villager clambering back, a guard and stationmaster mediation, and a warning of possible trouble. The piece then shifts to recount Haz Bahadur of Mandu, a Turkoman king who loves hawking and music, who rescues his Rajput beloved Rup Mati from a pyre after learning via a dream to dig near a sacred tamarisk by the Nerbudda and uncover water guiding their union. The legend ends with the couple at Mandu, a pavilion overseeing the Nerbudda and remnants of an aqueduct.
A London ex-detective narrates a Paris forgery case from 1805. He describes two would be victims posing as a couple who moved into a New Cut street to observe them. He impersonates a Coster to blend in at a walnut stall and is wrongly arrested for uttering counterfeit coins.
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