Public meeting on municipal incorporation at Newmalie Courthouse
A large Friday gathering at the Newmalie Courthouse discussed forming a municipality under the Municipal Act with East Mattingan and Morpeth also eyeing action. Diggers report a mass arrival at Port Jackson and a court case discharged diggers fined for boarding a steamer without fare.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newmaaile
East Mattiang
Morpeth
Sauve
Port Jackson
Fitzroy Diggings
Keppel Bay
Queensland
Water
Ilegally
Eagle
Port Curtis
Bnt
Paterson
A.&.n. Company
Select Committee
Legislature Department
W. Burton
Jess
Assembly
Daniel Cooper
Standing Orders
Alfred Denison
Victoria
Boy’s Electricity Book Teaches Home Made Power Devices
The article outlines two methods of generating electricity for experiments, warns against using home wiring, and describes building a small dynamo storage battery and an induction coil. It details projects including a burglar alarm, cockroach killer, a simple telephony device, and a wind speed indicator using improvised materials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edison
Oeere
Fasien & Brass
What to Drink Says London Paper on Water Safety
The London Lageet states water is the only truly safe drink and calls all other beverages drugs. It warns that alcohol tea coffee caffeine bitters ginger and soda contribute to bodily harm, urging plain water to avoid disease and long term dysfunction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Lageet
Nighttime intruder tickles Acton resident narrator
Miss Louisa Suttle woke to a man at her ground floor window in Acton England. She learned the joker was local man Dick Cottrell who admitted the act and was summoned for assault and ordered to pay the costs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louisa Suttle
Acton Beach
England
Jiinetion Road
Acton
Mick
Dick Cottrell
Cnsts
Philosophy Like Painted Fruit Teases Yet Wins No Taste
A reflective quip compares philosophy to fake fruit in restaurant windows. The painted stones tempt the eye and provoke thirst, but biting them breaks teeth, underscoring the idea that beauty or presentation can mislead without substance.
Beale Australian Pianos Win Top Honors at Franco British Expo
Beale Australian Pianos sent ten ordinary models to London for the Franco-British Exhibition and won Grand Prix for tonal qualities, plus two Gold Medals for woodwork and inventions. Judges were French and British experts. Lyons & Co ordered twenty pianos after testing. Over eleven thousand pianos sold across Australia and overseas with numerous testimonials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Europe
Messrs. Lyons & Co
Strand Palace
Old Exeter Hall
Balloon sickness studied by French aeronauts in ascent
M Crouton and M Soutien conducted trials during balloon ascent to assess sickness causes and treatments. Observers experienced fatigue drowsiness and panting at high altitudes. Inhalation of pure oxygen or Agazotti mixture reduced symptoms, with oxygen proving most effective near extreme heights.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. Crouton
M. Soutien
Agazotti
Instructions for building an airship kite with wooden sticks
The passage describes assembling an airship kite using sticks labeled AA BB CC and DD with specified lengths. It instructs lashing central sticks, bending curved ones, attaching side and end pieces, inserting short supports, and fastening the car. two figures of men are bound to the car, and the balloon and car are covered with dark paper muslin.
A Word for Sparrows and Weeds Across the World
A Scottish clergyman defends sparrows against being pests while weed threats loom in agriculture. The piece cites a Iowa scientist’s tests on sparrow weed consumption, estimating sparrows eat about a quarter ounce of weed seed daily per bird and that ten sparrows per square mile imply vast weed losses nationwide each winter.
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Dail
Elas
Australia
Canada
Wee
Towa
Reat
Caricature Styles Across Nations Cited In Essay
A commentator notes national caricature tendencies citing the American emphasis on illustration and past records, the French taste for the pathetically ridiculous, the Spaniard for the horrible, and the Prahan on nothing in practice.
Croydon Prootiera Camp Demonstrates Earth Oven Cooking
Members of a Prootiera men's camp at Croydon near Lenn on created an earth oven. A hole was dug with stones placed inside and a wool fire burned an hour. Water was added and meat with potatoes and onions steamed under a cabbage lid for about ninety minutes. The joint and vegetables turned out perfectly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Prootiera
Croydon
Lennon
Nightlife keeps people awake until morning
The text argues against waking early and blames theatres, parties, and clubs for late hours. It notes some people sleep best in the morning and calls the tendency foolish and unnatural.
School Howlers Reflect Savage Sentences From Aged Texts
Fragmented lines present a series of odd phrases and quips about politics religion and society. The garbled OCR hints at schoolyard maxims about barbarism bankruptcy geography faith and governance with mentions of Ireland Northern Command and political figures.
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G.p.co
W. H. Christie
Clarka
Freemasons
York Street
Baron Rothschild
Joseph Simmons
Alfred Te Litesa
Saul Samuel
Samuel Cohen
P. J. Cohen
Moses Moss
Lippman
Israel
A. Joseph
L. Spyer
Francis Tr. Mackellar
George-street North
Tompson
J. Peters
Varabes
Howell
Wagen
Armani
SM Tens
Bremen
Cape
Kirchner and Company
New Moon
Hawkesbury River
Marshall
Matteau
James Martin
Melbourne
Milas
Craman
Sydney
Loutea
New Caledonia
Goodie
John M’laine
Imfporter-General
Pollca— Adel
Burrendone
Orange
Macquarie
Emerald Hill
G. Baker
Bexley
Cook's River
Kingagrove
Gannon's Rush
Illawarra Road
Stocky Pointroad
Wall Creek
Dum Linmas
A. Lieryd
Burt and Company
Pittstrert
Lovell
Royal Artillery
Dawea Point
Danial Cooper
Ward
M*lerie
Mesera, Mort and Company
Hayes
Waterloo Mills
Thomas Spurgeon
Grays, Engham
C. Anthony Bernasconi
Parramatta
A. Doosidsen
John Hay
Furlong
Fisher
Donaldson
Tuck Creek
Macquarie River
Bathurst
P. Mriecharane
New Zealand
Fiji
Samoa
Mauritius
India
Norfolk Island
Beal
George
Weed Destroyers
Rough
Court of Chancery
John Elon
Magma Ciarta
Joseph Chamberlain
Tyler
Ordera
Northern
Weite
Falliere “Flesh-Food” CO
Linden Court
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