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Newspaper
Sydney Evening News
Location
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Oct 03, 1908
Page
10
A sweeping critique contrasts British engineering gains with American successes in rail, bicycles, ships, and footwear. British locomotives outperform in tests, UK-made goods dominate South American markets, and British bootmakers press past American labels amid a broader saga of trade rivalry and imperial economic strength.
Miss Mary Tillingtast an artist sails from New York to England in late July seeking noble forebears for Mrs Russell Sage widow of a millionaire famed for generosity. She traces paternal Miles Standish lineage and maternal Colonel Henry Pier son ties tied to the Sack Harbor legend.
A bridegroom shoots a rival after his wife reports another man is a better dancer. The anecdotal incident unfolds in Bigraaites amid local gossip and a report on The Evening News as described by Hon G H Reid KC.
An Evening News report details the Chilean naval training ship General Baquedano now in Sydney Harbor. It covers Chilean naval strength, training methods, and aims for peaceful arbitration, with notes on officers, language, and the broader South American naval context.
An old advertisement extols Condy’s Fluid as a mouth wash and throat remedy that deodorizes, purifies, and removes odors from teeth after smoking or onions. It claims instant relief for sore throat hoarseness and strengthens the throat and gums. Also notes a competing product with no permanganate. A separate note reports a man fined at Greenwich Palace Court in August for drunkenness while riding a pony.
Mary Harpham writes from the London Daily Express warning of drastic bird declines due to indiscriminate hunting and netting. The piece details cruel methods in Northern Italy including roccolo nets and copertoi draw devices, notes dwindling songbirds in Italy and elsewhere, and urges restrictions to protect migratory birds for ecological balance and humane concerns.
A vicar asks a parishioner if she reads periodicals. She replies she does not, but her husband reads a periodical about once every two months and she wishes he would sign the pledge.
Branko Towitch a draper's clerk from Mitrovitza Hungary was seized after rising from breakfast and fleeing military service under an assumed identity. Hungarian law prescribes 14 years in prison for evading service.
A herd of young elephants in Api Congo Pree State has been trained to perform porterage and traction tasks at a station challenging the belief that such animals cannot be tamed. A London jobmaster, misled by wedding expectations, sent carriages with grey horses to Walt ton, but the plan shifted as officials sought to convey prisoners to the paline ala.
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