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Newspaper
Sydney Evening News
Location
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Jun 02, 1900
Page
2
A mother recounts a grand patriotic display in Australia, detailing children’s outfits, dressing frenzies, and school pride. She notes the war talk at meals, salvaged fabrics, and the joyous turnout as soldiers returned from South Africa, ending with a luminous, memory-etched scene.
A youth boasts of home life and drill training shaping him into a soldier. He recalls family support, praise for his dumbbells and sticks, and a plan to join the Gov, eager for fame and applause at school and matches.
A girl muses on patriotism as a nuisance to fashion and hair while praising school colors that suit her. She recalls tight dresses, rain, and public scrutiny, then finds relief in drill and music with fellow patriotic students. A sick soldier reappears as she ends with a handshake.
A teacher voices exhaustion after weeks of relentless drill while praising students for strong performance. The scene shifts to a garden-like ground with vivid imagery of flowers swaying in a breeze, as the narrator notes Mr Bridges may seek trouble.
A reflective history recounts Napoleon Bonaparte’s early perilous path to power aided by risky gambles and parsimony. It notes pivotal moments from Junot's risky gaming to Waterloo misfortunes and Sedan’s upheaval, ending with the Empress Eugene’s ill fated bid to save the empire and the contractor’s fraud.
The article surveys Chinese secret societies from Confucian and Buddhist roots to the Boxers. It notes empress dowager dynamics, past disturbances by the Triad and White Waterlily groups, and the January to September rise in anti missionary violence. Powers threaten intervention if Pekin fails to act.
In a Brisbane Courier letter from Private of the First Queensland Contingent, a tale claims Lieutenant Walker and Private John Robinson shot down a boastful Boer at 150 yards after the man boasted of his marks. The test ends with the Boer exclaiming Allamachtag as Australians prevail.
A Sydney woman's testimonial describes a long battle with liver disorder symptoms including loss of appetite, headaches, nerve pain, and swelling. After failing standard treatments, she credits Clemente Tonic with restoring sleep, easing neuralgia, reducing joint swelling, lifting mood, and restoring health.
Barah Cole of Purves Street Forest Lodge Sydney declares eleven folios truthfully recounting illness and cure by Moments Tonle and grants permission to publish the document. The declaration is made under the New South Wales act replacing oaths with declarations and is sworn before Justice of the Peace Iow Tm Strachan.
The document argues that Clementes Tonic is not a cure all and does not claim to cure plague cancer hydatids consumption or other incurable diseases. It asserts the medicine relies on proven claims rather than impossible miracles and avoids deceiving customers to protect its reputation.
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