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Newspaper
Sydney Evening News
Location
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Aug 15, 1908
Page
3
A large sack containing the body of a married woman is found after a man returns home and reports his wife missing. He believes she was abducted and murdered, and suspects the assailants carried the body away. Police are alerted as the case unfolds.
Garden guidance covers pruning, division, and care for border plants and perennials to boost flowering. It advises sun exposure, timing for lifting and dividing cranes, and selective fertilizing with sulfuric or compost mixes. It lists plants like primroses, canna, anemone, polyanthus, and pursues tips for sowing seeds and preparing beds for summer growth.
A New York correspondent notes sky parlors or clubrooms on upper floors becoming common in the city. The City Lunch Club in the new Guy Trading Building seats 500, with no drapery and fire precautions praised. Elevators, panoramic views, and wives rooms are described as the lunch scene shifts from street stands to high offices.
The Cock of the Walk laments a short life and a merry one as he quips about his fate from the incubator to the cold warehouse, reflecting a brisk, sardonic outlook on his lot.
A Shanghai report tells how a non-commissioned officer of Laichun Division faced 160 blows for opium use. Detected by a patrol, he appealed to General Wang Yin Kai who halted execution. Troops knelt pleading to spare him, claiming opium as medicine. The general commuted the death sentence and warned strict prohibition of the drug.
In the Bank of England counting house and Wells City Franco English Exhibition London a Swedish engineered device counts and sorts money into paper tubes at a rate of 72 000 coins per hour. Fourteen expert cashiers tally only about £10 000 in silver daily, while the new electric machine promises major speed gains.
A fragmented historical reflection traces the guillotine from French Revolution myth to 18th and 19th century debates. It links medical advocates, political reformers, and executions in France and abroad, noting debates on humane punishment and the era of terror.
The article surveys subaqueous tunnelling from London to Sydney style projects, noting Royal Instigation of another Thames tunnel and the evolution of subaqueous work. It outlines engineering challenges like water-bearing strata and soft ground, comparing Blackwall and Rotherhithe approaches, and highlighting global expertise in British tunnelling heritage.
A detailed account describes massive underground projects and tunneling feats across cities and rivers. It mentions pneumatic attachments, hydraulic rams, and grouting used to drive shields, alongside monumental tubes under the Thames and other harbors. The piece traces London’s Tower Subway and rival schemes, noting engineers, companies, and historic breakthroughs.
A detailed account describes a mechanical coin sorter that lifts about a hundred coins into a grid, then sifts and channels them into twenty coin tubes with precise accuracy. A June 20 demonstration counted nearly 1000 pennies, producing exactly eighty-one tubes, while the operator sorted the rest, illustrating an ingenious system prized for speed and reliability.
The Rev Valentine Strailes of Styrustne Siwanaey was shot during a sermon at his church. The attack wounded many, with the pastor mortally struck and others evacuated as congregants sought aid and the killer fled before being confronted by authorities.
A jumble of OCR text reports a Bible society meeting at Queen Street and mentions Premier T Price of South Australia, British criticism, and a Plymouth mayoral incident. It references Japan, China, and cultural topics with incomplete phrases and unclear dates or outcomes.
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