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Newspaper
Tambellup Times
Location
Tambellup, Western Australia, Australia
Date
Jun 24, 1914
Page
4
Fragmentary verses reflect on time memory and spring scenes by the sea. The speaker longs for lingering cornfields curlews and lilied fields while seeking calm in life’s darkened chambers and a long evening pall.
In Marshburg two aging ex soldiers, Rankin and Ludington Haynes, once boyhood friends and war comrades, cross paths daily. Rankin, a wealthy, solitary factory owner who gardens obsessively, nursed unspoken love for Millicent Apgar, now married to Haynes after the war. Rankin cherishes Millicent’s faded rose gift, tending his famed Memorial roses as a private link to what might have been.
In Marshburg old rivals Ludington and Haynes clash over a late Memorial Day rose display. Rankin pursues Haynes after he steals the roses, a violent pursuit through moonlit streets as Ludington’s fragile fortunes and grudging loyalties collide.
Rankin pursues Haynes to a graveyard where Haynes mourns his wife and offers roses he stole. Overwhelmed by shared past and sorrow, Rankin forgives Ludingotus, accepting the Memorial rose and easing two wounded hearts.
A golfer praises a splendid stroke and asks the caddie if he followed the ball. The caddie responds he did not but believes the fenceman on the bill detected where it struck. The exchange conveys a quiet clubhouse moment with sportsmanship.
Mr Millions laments ruin after a debonair exchange with the Prince who jokes about finding another heiress. The mood shifts as a dire financial crash looms over their conversation.
A string of quick jokes and clippings features quarrels over money and kisses, a boy named Tommy bargaining for two shillings, Archie’s odd motor fixation, a teacher asking for a link between animals and vegetables, and domestic lines about money and marriage. The mood is light, with social miscommunications and puns.
A theatre scene shows an eager actor resisting a difficult character while the manager counters with a remark about an easy part. A friend quotes a harsh Review saying the author’s book lacks genius and literary merit. The author retorts about earnings and critic’s low take.
The article outlines two types of infant prodigies natural precocity and early efflorescence. It highlights Blaise Pascal as a model of early mathematical genius nurtured by a devoted father and tutors. It also recounts Christian Heinecker born 1721 in Lubeck who spoke by ten months and mastered religion, history, and languages before dying at age four.
The article recounts child prodigies in music and mathematics, focusing on Mozart’s early genius and his father’s guiding lessons. It also details Charles and Samuel Wesley’s precocious starts, plus William Crotch’s Norwich upbringing and Zerah Colburn’s rapid arithmetic talents.
An onlookers board outside a village church lists a potato pie supper on Saturday and a Sunday talk titled A Night off Agony. A gentleman asks the price of an article from a young woman who calls him dear, sparking a witty exchange about youth and charm.
A light anecdote set in a shop shows the clerk, claiming to be the heir of the head, confiding to a caller that the head’s heir is indeed two boys. A mother and son exchange domestic moments, including a pantry key mishap and a plan to wait for the father’s return.
A traveler frets over a horse in need of oats or whisky while Eva Flusington enjoys a tidy kiss curl. Finson visits as Eva ponders a future wedding amid a knock at the door and Jimson contemplates avoiding a bore by claiming an engagement.
A Tasmanian man discovers a rustic sign over his cabin door reading isi on parle francaise and is kissed by a passing Frenchman who believes it proclaims French is spoken here. The sign’s meaning perplexes the colonist until the French visitor explains the painter meant Latin for God bless my happy home.
After a hard day at the office a father reclines with his son Tommy who begs to see his fiddle. The father says he has no fiddle, and Tommy replies that mamma told Mrs Strongwill that he has played second fiddle since she was War ing.
Two youths faced a police court on a disturbance charge after a daytime scrap during a football match. Each claimed the other started the brawl while denying serious harm, one saying he thought he was kicking the ball and the other insisting he was the goalkeeper. The magistrate pressed for calm as tension flared.
A fragmented line reads I see Assi dents veth Twenty sinlings and costs cach. The text appears as a garbled quotation with unclear context and mis-spellings.
A refined patient seeks help from a celebrated physician but tests a quack who spouts elaborate, fictitious medical jargon about membranous systems and spinal rotundum. The patient, intrigued, agrees to a prescription despite the absurd explanations and medical implausibilities.
A courtroom scene recounts a child's plea about family discipline. The boy asks if his mother was whipped as a child and who started the practice, seeking the origin of the punishment with a sobbing, earnest tone.
A teacher asks why biting puppy dogs tails is cruel. A child replies with the misquoted “What God hath joined together let no man put as under,” turning the lesson into a humorous moral on kindness to animals.
A man who once charmed locals with pleasant words returns to a town he visited twenty years ago. Miss Mears, an elderly spinster, recognizes him, calling him a “landmark” of the town. A restaurant diner nearby humorously muses about local icons as the scene unfolds.
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