Earnestness and Adaptability Drive Remarkable Successes
The writer Scribae cites multiple figures from science and arts showing that perseverance and flexible learning yield achievement. Examples include Henry Charles Fleeming Jenkin’s mother mastering piano, a farmer’s daughter learning dairy work, and Pasteur applying observation to silkworm disease. Pages note Buckland's guano project and Sedewick’s path to geology, with Lady Murchison and Leschetizky notable for adapting skill sets.
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Scribae
Dean Hook
Henry Charles Fleeming Jenkin
Burton
Dean Buckland
Sedewick
Cambridge
Chalmers
Tholuck
la Rochefoucauld
Leschetizky
Watts
Adulteration Allegory of Four Rodents in a Pantry
A fanciful tale warns against widespread food adulteration. Four rodents sample sugar laced with white lead, flour with plaster of Paris, syrup dyed with aniline colors, and rat poison. One survives, illustrating the dangers and folly of tainted supplies.
The Wine Delivered To The Wrong House
A quirky tale tells of a gentleman famed for eccentricity who ordered twelve bottles of claret to be sent to his home. The delivery lad arrived after the gentleman had returned, misreadings filed, and the maid realized the wine belonged to the hat on the hall table.
Hidden Secrets and Irishwit In Old Time Cartoons
A humorous fragment collection features quips on secrecy and marriage. A funeral joke from an Irish bystander prompts a wry exchange about certainty and death. An Australian furniture ad touts T Waite and Co. products guaranteed against cracking in hot climates.
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Australia
T. Waite & Co
Maryborough
Terang
Clarke's Blood Mixture advertised as a purifying cure
An advertisement extols Clarke's Blood Mixture as a powerful purifier for many ailments including scrofula, eczema, pimples, and skin diseases. The copy claims thousands of cures and warns against imitations, noting the product sold at 2s 9d per bottle and distributed widely.
Love on a Wheat Stack at Donald Stirs Rumor
Reportedly two lovers climbed the highest crack of wheat at the Donald railway station in absence of an aircraft. The next day a lady’s bangle handkerchief hat pin and hair-pins were found. The Mail notes the unlikely claim of ownership and links the wheat stack to husbandry in explaining the departure.
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Donald
Mail
Dyspeptics urged to try Mother Seigel's Syrup for relief
An old persuasion piece promotes Mother Seigel's Syrup as a tonic for indigestion stomach liver and bowels. It cites general benefits a testimonial from Helena Rasmussen and emphasizes genuine remedy access.
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Mother Seigel
Midlands Swindler Foiled by Ingenious Ad Trick
A Midlands police official recalls a swindler posing as a cycle maker. He sold cheap bicycles via costly adverts, collecting payments in advance. A Devon farmer traced the scheme, visited the factory, tested a cycle, exposed the fraud, and the maker fled, leaving the farmer satisfied by catching him.
Selected Recipes From An Old Household Menu
A collection of simple old fashioned dishes including Bird's Nest Toast Kidney and Onion Rice and Lamb Chops Beef Cake and Potato Balls with basic steps and ingredients. The write up reads like a wartime or domestic guide with measurements and cooking times for each recipe. The tone is instructional and practical for home cooks.
Little Thoughts on Truth and Virtue
A reflective snippet discusses persistence and truth telling, noting how honesty would reveal misery if universal, and observing human tendency to judge others while excusing one’s own faults.
Land Tax and Ownership Changes Mentioned in Tax Act Notices
Fragmented text references land tax acts and notices to the Commissioner about ownership changes. Mentions a government gazette and geological topics including volcanic action and earthquakes, with scattered, unclear phrases about individuals and events.
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Aloce Bistlant
Fire destroys shops bank and hotel in Collie
A Tuesday morning blaze in Collie Western Australia destroyed several shops the Commercial Bank and the Federal Hotel causing extensive damage and prompting emergency responses.
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Collie
W.A
Commercial Bank
Federal Hotel
The Danger of Worms in the Stomach and Intestines
An Australasian notice warns worms cause indigestion and serious health effects from cysts or germs in tainted food. It links worms to convulsions epilepsy hysteria St Vitus Dance melancholia and insanity, urging eradication to prevent emaciation and breakdown. Comstock's Dead Shout Worm Fellas a vegetable remedy offered by The W H Comstock Co Sydney for 2s 9d.
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Australasia
Comstock
W. H. Comstock Co., Ltd
Langstreet
Church Hill
Sydney
Talbot Area Boards Set February Meeting Schedule
A list of February meetings is released for Talbot and nearby areas. Events include Talbot Public Library Committee at 8.15 p.m. and Talbot Shire Council monthly session on February 2, plus Amherst District Hospital Board of Management, Talbot, February 4. Other gatherings cover Loxton and surrounding entities through February 27.
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Talbot Public Library
Talbot Shire Council
Amherst District Hospital
Borough Hall
Talbot
Commons Managers
Loxton
Council Chambers
Talbot Prospecting and Progressive Association
Talbot Fire Brigade
Prince Alfred State School
Daisy Hill
Amherst Cemetery Trustees
Winslow’s Soothing Syrup for Teething Pain
An old nurse’s remedy claims to calm teething children and ease wind colic and diarrhoea. Dosage guidance targets infants from under one month to six months and older, with drops and teaspoon measures and frequent dosing advised until stools improve. Sold widely.
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Mra Winslow
Mas Winslow
Mika Winslow
Advice to Mothers and Clarke's Blood Mixture Advert
In London the building trade lockout leaves $1,000 men idle. The ad promotes Clarke's World-famed Blood Mixture as a universal cure for blood diseases including scrofula eczema and bad legs. It claims numerous cures, praises its safety and declares it sold everywhere, with warnings about imitations.
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London
Clarke
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Perth
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Talbot and District
Newstead Co-Operative Batter & Cheese
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London Bank of Australia, Ltd
Talbot National Bank of Australasia, Ltd
Newstead
J. H. Jones
Camp Street Talbot
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Lexton
Taggart
High Street
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