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Newspaper
Sydney Evening News
Location
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Dec 05, 1908
Page
2
A reflective piece critiques modern sermons and pulpit rhetoric, recounting anecdotes of preachers who mix plain speech with bold similes. It contrasts earnest preaching with theatrical flourishes, highlighting a canonical tale where a preacher’s warlike battle simile backfires with a comic twist.
A traveler’s worn account paints Haiti as a mysterious, undeveloped land ruled by a network of generals. It describes harsh officials, cautious interactions with Americans, and a peasantry seen as kind yet ignorant. Voodoo rumors and alleged orgies appear, but kindness and hospitality stand out amid poverty, superstition, and dangerous roads.
A native, about 25, alleged a Kin kiang road shopkeeper threw him from a second floor window at No 126 Kin kiang road. The shopkeeper's wife was cited as the instigator in this romantic yet extraordinary case before the Mixed Court at Shanghai.
A survey of folk beliefs links sea creatures to cures and luck. Haddock bones, crayfish stones, perch heads, and seahorse tooth rings are cited as remedies or talismans. Labrador Indians and Asiatic Turkey practices mingle with Japanese customs where tai symbolizes good fortune and appears at weddings.
An earnest curate in a small kitchen audience try to deliver a moral address to peasants and dogs. A deaf laborer is set close to the speaker to hear better, prompting laughter and a farcical scene as the sermon falters amid awkward humor and rural disruption.
An amusing County Court case in Birmingham features a defendant who argues he cannot bite with his false teeth. Dentists G W Edwards and Frank Scote testified as to services and teeth supplied. The judge and witnesses observed the teeth failing to bite a bread crust or hard apple, noting displacement during the test.
If the claims of even a small proportion of the inventors who turn their attention to railways were admitted, it would be impossible to believe anything else but that there is a sure remedy existing for every ill that the railway is heir to.
A Shanghai correspondent reports a Seang chow case where a husband killed his wife's lover with an executioner's knife after discovering infidelity. The husband’s mother was left in charge, the adulterer wounded, and all parties acquitted except the elder brother who received a punishment for not restraining his brother.
Legal proceedings reveal the Mazdaznans sun worshippers led by Hammish, a Chicago founder. In Lowell a receiver is sought to prevent a £20,000 estate gift to the sect. Testimony describes dew baths, sun bathing, dieting, class divisions, and hypnotic claims amid temple practices.
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