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Newspaper
Sydney Evening News
Location
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Dec 26, 1908
Page
4
Canon Horsley addressed 400 delegates on industrial training for women and girls at the London Guildhall. He attacked claims of female unemployment solutions, critiqued unskilled work like far-pulling, and warned against long hours in domestic service while urging girls to join trades unions. The Lord Mayor attended the state welcome.
A compact history of the Christmas tree tracing its leap from Germany to Sweden Russia and England. It notes first records in 1600 in Strasburg and nearby, the 1807 Dresden market as a milestone, and England’s royal and public displays from the 16th through 19th centuries including a 1548 Norfolk tree and the Crystal Palace display of 1878.
A historic Christmas tale describes a tree dipped in icily sugar that glittered brilliantly. Wealthy donors funded opulent trees with Parisian dolls and vouchers for gifts, while other trees bore solid gold and varied marvellous ornaments. The piece notes evolving customs and the enduring aim of bringing joy to children during Christmas.
Georg Howard, aged about SS years, dies in Needham Market Suffolk. He never saw the sea, lived all his life in the same house, and visited Bury St. Edmunds once. He kept a butcher’s shop until six years before his death, wearing a silk hat and apron, and marked his day by two half hour intervals for meat and for “pudae.”
The wedding of Misa Dorarhna Chavanse, daughter of the Bishop of Liverpool Enstand, featured eight bridesmaids in whRast gold gowns carrying baskets with elder pears and red posies. The bride bears the legend of St Dorothea, her namesake.
A fragment from a periodical features verses and verses like a phonograph memory. It humorously contrasts a tired narrator and a jittery memory with a talking machine and faded records. The piece includes other poems about queens princesses and straight courses in life and a fishing tale.
A Denver Post editorious note states that Mr William Bryan, a journalist by trade, will likely accept the Democratic presidential candidate’s seat and take the post at a salary of 2400 per year. The piece debates Garrick as a great actor, contrasting fame with public approval and the era’s stage politics.
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