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Newspaper
Sydney Globe
Location
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Feb 22, 1913
Page
2
A old article outlines building a useful barrel based refrigerator. It describes crafting a cabinet, rails, and fittings, including a top support, trays, and a metal lining. The piece also notes a cheap refrigerator can be made from an airtight barrel with a metal insert and hinged cover.
A garbled OCR record describes a painter and tools. It mentions a paint brush, a figure labeled Pig 9, and a display in a figure. The text is incomplete but implies a workshop or demonstration context with a hand or glove-like object and a description of a water feature.
Step by step directions describe assembling a wooden chest frame using two strips of stock, oak pegs, and a bed of strips. The process covers bed setup, marking, cutting, and joining with screws, and recommends starting screws with a wire-wrapped technique to prevent splitting during assembly.
A detailed description covers shaping stiles and rails, chamfering edges, and assembling a chair or stand with specific measurements. It explains cutting, beveling, and aligning parts, with notes on bracing, finishing, and applying a basic furniture polish recipe using simple materials.
The Royal Institute hosted a Christmas lecture on Alchemy led by Professor James Meurer. Students and attendees watched demonstrations of apparatus, including crucibles and distillation, as the professor explained alchemical ideas with theatrical gestures and old terms.
A fragmented reader’s page quotes riddled lines about grasshoppers and crickets, their shapes, noises, and uses as toys and metaphors. It mixes questions on clocks, apples, and train engines, presenting student curiosities and playful observations alongside odd, unfinished phrases.
An archaic tale describes soldiers of a distant era feasting before a strange vehicle and a bizarre ritual. The scene blends myth and memory as the crowd recalls a ceremonial load and a breadlike confection tied to a long forgotten feast.
A fragmented discussion traces historical war expenditures from the Napoleonic era to modern conflicts. It cites Crimea, the Boer War, and European powers' naval outlays, noting rising costs, weekly expense estimates, and the growing burden of maintaining large armed forces versus imperial campaigns.
A fragmented obituary sketch notes Mr. Sremeet Booth as eldest son of the late General and a figure tied to the army leadership. It recalls Blanth family peacekeeping, Booth’s democratic leanings, and a dramatic anecdote of a rat during early service. Booth married a Parian army officer’s widow who led a wartime serial effort for the Mother’s League.
An elderly woman and a passionate couple are drawn together as a mood turns tense during a private musical moment. The man suddenly stops playing, tears a handkerchief from his pocket, and the scene shifts to a startling, lingering awkwardness amid the crowd.
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