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Newspaper
Sunshine Advocate
Location
Sunshine, Victoria, Australia
Date
Oct 02, 1936
Page
7
A mixed page features light jokes and classroom notes plus a long tale about Mucdune and the Isle of Finn. It includes a paper tube optical trick, a firing squad anecdote, student gifts and quiz style marks, and a mythic voyage ending with a moral about revenge and homeward journeys.
An editor outlines a revised marking scheme with twenty marks for correct answers and two lost for mistakes, noting that hardworking competitors deserve higher scores. The page then shares jokes and riddles from readers and a story about Maeldune a hero of Tennyson inspired legend with islands of Silence Shouting Flowers and Fruits and a lesson that revenge is not worthwhile.
Entries challenge readers to identify characters from Nursery Rhyme Land with clues about a king boy girl clock disobedience and music. Prizes offered by Uncle Bill at The Advocacy Office Sunshine with entries due Monday October 12.
A jumbled microcosm of slights and gags unfolds as a robber complains of fifty three articles stolen from him, a salesman chides a fiancee over brakes, and a fat reducing mixture faces skeptical buyers. A solicitor faces a tired man and a comic miscue about relatives surfaces amid dialog.
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