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Newspaper
Shepparton News
Location
Shepparton, Victoria, Australia
Date
Jul 16, 1914
Page
6
Prices in Melbourne markets show heavy demand for turkeys and fowls with 7d per lb for live weight and top rates for old fowls. Meat prices rise with beef and veal listed, while exporters like David Hyland & Sons solicit country buyers. A side anecdote from a comic dialogue appears at the end.
Lord Minto recalls a morning in Simla when a sentry refused him entry despite his rank as Viceroy of India. The guard quipped that even Queen Victoria’s grandfather faced similar denial, then advised the Viceroy to leave. The anecdote contrasts imperial pomp with common courtesy and humor.
Carcases of pork, veal, and beef received for local or export trade. Livestock treated on owners account. Carriera meat all trains. Sales daily with highest prices realized. Account sales every Tuesday. Beef sent to any part of the country. Correspondence invited.
Reynolds and Son publish prices for the week ending July 3 covering beef pork veal lamb and bacon with prime and medium ranges. The piece also ponders the paradox of books sold printed bound and read by those who do not understand them.
Pigs and GALVES TONE and CO. proprietors announce wholesale meat sales in North Melbourne. Open to receive carcase, park and veal any day with daily sales, highest prices realized, latent cold storage chambers, prompt account balea. Correspondence Taysted. See our Weekly Reports to Market Reports.
In Glenalmond School chapel a tale recalls Alexander Cumine Rungell who joined the 74th Highlanders at 17 and earned immortal glory during the Birkenhead tragedy. He chose to save a sailor and a fellow officer, abandoning his own place as the ship sank, and perished amid a chorus of blessings.
A Detroit anecdote traces dead-heads to a tollgate near a cemetery after a physician joked funeral processions should pass toll free. The gatekeeper refused, quipping that too many dead-heads travel for free, and the phrase entered public usage for those who ride or attend gratis.
Dr Preston King of Hath proposed that capital punishment remain the law yet condemned murderers could choose a humane vivisection. He suggested simple procedures like tuberculosis milk feeding or germ injections to study diseases in humans, claiming one life could potentially save many others and offer the criminal a chance at salvation.
A reflective note on danger, arguing that worry and friction rather than hard labor undermine machinery and men, emphasizing the corrosive effect of stress and hardship over mere labor.
A Bamawm Victoria resident William John Youill testifies to recovery from Bright's disease after using Warner's Safe Cure. He describes severe illness, hospital doubts, and gradual improvement aided by the tonic, noting no relapse for six years while returning to mining work. Warner's Safe Cure advertised for kidney and liver disorders with pricing in six shilling and two shilling sixpence bottles.
A speaker describes a day spent washing and running about pegging clothes and drying them. After work ends the first task at home is to put the kettle on the fire and brew a cup of tea for themselves, a small comfort kept from daily fatigue.
A man finishing a meal sprang up seized a hat and gold headed umbrella from the wall and rushed out. The proprietor cried stop him as a determined patron joined the chase promising to bring the thief back in charge of a police officer. Neither pursuer returned, leaving the proprietor in doubt.
A humorously misheard moment in a domestic scene unfolds as Mr Bell works on a wooden contrivance near his kitchen window while a neighbor asks about his ailing wife. An old lady misreads the sound, and the veteran craftsman proudly clarifies it is a fowl house, not a coffin. There are Others. A playful exchange between two sisters reveals a child’s joke about parental fear, contrasting elephants with mamma.
A garbled excerpt shows a narrator remarking on a woman weeping and a listener noting her rage. The dialogue hints at calumny and hardships but many lines are incomplete, leaving the core events and identities unclear.
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