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Newspaper
Talbot Leader
Location
Talbot, Victoria, Australia
Date
Apr 18, 1914
Page
6
A shopkeeper stalls a woman with a grim tale about a dead animal from rap e consrupption and fever then replaces the joint with a grin. He offers sausages to another customer claiming the best quality since a muscling order had been in force and hangs them on the hook for the next buyer.
At a Warrington luncheon Secretary Bryan spoke about a modest man who declined an important post. He quipped that when a man hides his light under a bushel the thimble would do as well, noting the country might be better off without his services.
An early 20th century ad lists export poultry buyers David Hyland & Sons and Sennitt's Freezing Works Melbourne. It advertises live weight pricing for chickens and ducklings, no commission or cartage, with crates lent. The fragment also contains a misquoted children’s breakfast table anecdote about spoons.
A 19th century tale recounts a party of 22 goldseekers in northwestern Arizona chasing a rumored lake of gold amid Apaches. Led by a stalwart youth to Dead Man’s Gulch and the Gila river area, the group was ambushed. most died, two escaped, one later died, and Adams searched repeatedly for the lake but failed to locate it.
A fragmentary verse image notes a man’s suffering as a boot toe presses on a corn. Teasie Pope titles the line with stark focus on pain and endurance. The quatrain-like fragment evokes quiet perseverance amid daily hardship.
An advertisement touts a wide selection of baits and lures labeled as the largest variety in Australia. It promises patterns, materials, and designs to choose from with free forms and tape sent to any address, all at one price.
Fuller and Johnson offer a double engine for hand powered machines. It installs anywhere without special brackets and runs with no tension at a penny per hour. Attach to pump, separator, Wannower, churn, washing machine or fire hose for praised results. Price £3. Write for full particulars.
PIGS and GALVES STONE and CO. Regd. and ROBERT SCHULTE proprietor operate the Metropolitan Meat Market North Melbourne. They invite correspondence and provide daily sales of carcass port and veal with highest prices realised and updated weekly market reports.
A column offers practical home hacks from laundry and cooking to ironing and cooling. Tips include using borax to banish odors, blanching almonds, heating a flat iron over a gas jet, sugar vinegar aids for fever, green cooking with ginger, and preventing egg yolk leakage in water. Also advice on blanch mange, ink pen tips, cucumber forehead cooling, and copper cleaning with whitewash and calico bags.
A collection of witty anecdotes about bishops and clerics. The stories feature Dr Potter as bishop and other churchmen like Creighton Gore Magee Temple and Temple, with anecdotes about angels as women or handsome youths and light quips about heaven, reading, and providence. The tone echoes Attic Salt and Regency humor.
A district visitor overhears a conversation in a slum pariah building where a Mrs Curran and her Irish tenants discuss the visitor's identity and business. The dressmaker's explanation to curious neighbors is to say she is simply their dressmaker.
A historical ad extols aging ailments and the kidneys and liver as key to health. Warner's Safe Cure is promoted as curative for rheumatism, gout, neuraglia, lumbago, anaemia, indigestion, and other disorders, available in original and concentrated forms through chem hints and storekeepers.
Robur the chemist explains the demanding hours and temptations of the trade. He notes fatigue and strict discipline, then extols tea as a clear brain rest, advising pure tea brewed five minutes for a good cup.
A collage of scattered quips and humorous asides including a child confessing breaking a brick with a father's watch, a man firing his car joking about a “party horse,” a prophetic line about thirty nine horses dead, and miscellaneous exchanges on marriage, ignorance, and misprints.
A humorous late night tale describes a wife waking in tears over a nightmare about a warehouse sign offering husbands for sale at high prices. The husband’s puzzled questions prompt risqué jokes about bundles and prices, followed by a playful mock essay on Eve and Monday wash. A schoolboy essay about keeping the Wolf from the door closes the piece.
Subscribed capital stands at £126,000 with reserved liability £190,000 and guarantee fund £19,000. Registered offices at 25 Queen Street Melbourne. Board includes Edward Fanning chairman and others such as H Irvine Donald Mackinnon Mila R G McCutcheon and M L A Stewart McArthur, all solicitors or barristers. The company is empowered by Parliament to act as executor administrator trustee receiver committee listener and to handle Lunacy Act transfers and Trusts. Joel Fox is manager with T Martin as assistant manager.
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