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Newspaper
Traralgon Record
Location
Traralgon, Victoria, Australia
Date
Mar 14, 1913
Page
6
The text extols belief, hope, and perseverance as keys to justice. It emphasizes that those who believe find possibilities, those who hope find fewer obstacles, and those who persevere in justice cultivate stronger outcomes.
A fragmentary voice recalls a morning scene as tea is prepared by a cautious narrator. The grocer’s assistant is praised for serving excellent tea, while a remark about a man named Ungress suggests a local character who cuts a diligent figure in town life. The Homty Bat emerges in a casual, clipped aside.
The tale opens with Gordanne choosing a master among three suitors as a Montenegrin husband figure rises in the doorway. In another note, lifelong Hampshire farmhand Daniel Wilkinson, at XM years, has worked 75 years from age nine, with a wife and twelve children, reflecting on old-age pensions aiding their retirement. Samuel Lawrence, age 88, also a long-tenured worker at Dippenhall, has recently stopped work.
A Royal Society of Asia discussion outlined a method to convert sawdust into sugar by digestion with weak sulfuric acid under pressure. Claims include up to 29 percent sugar yield and potential use as animal feed, with horses and a colt showing weight gains on saccharose molasses substituting oats. Additional tests suggest suitability for pit ponies and potential industrial uses.
An accident at the 1873 Gwenine Viens Exposition revealed a dangerous wiring mix up. A worker connected ends of two wires to a dynamotor, unknowingly bridging another machine, causing the dormant motor to spin as if powered. The incident highlighted a key lesson about intention and character.
A column contrasts nostalgic views of past life with harsh old world conditions and limited science, then extols Warner's Safe Cure as a remedy for kidney and liver disorders. The piece blends commentary with medical ads, detailing urinary and biliary ailments and praising the product’s healing claims.
A playful verse narration recalls a gown chosen with pride and delayed romance, noting a thrice tried Reno route and a free heart. The piece shifts to a French experiment describing a snail that can traverse a razor blade edge using its unique locomotion and muscular system.
A sweeping survey highlights how chance moments sparked major discoveries. From Watt’s kettle to Galvani's battery, sailors finding glass on a Spain shore, a tobacconist’s Back Yard Snuff, Galileo’s chandelier, silk thread brilliance, Newton’s gravity, Franklin’s kite, and porcelain and lithography breakthroughs, history links fortune with progress.
A newly arrived curate questions a self described widow about her dead husband and children in a tense, evasive encounter. The woman taunts him, listing her life details and mockingly offering to show her marks, while the curate blushes and stumbles, clearly out of depth in the exchange.
A cryptic verse is quoted from a group calling itself Fowdstesters at Wrestlingworth, Bedfordshire, claiming to steal from the rich to feed the poor and leaving readers with a taunting line about breeding more. The fragmentary note surfaces in local chatter with no further details on motives or actions.
An old soldier recalls a farmer who asked which he preferred battle or farming. The soldier replies the army, for it trains you to land at ease after long service. The fragment includes a string of whimsical, unanswered questions about nature and everyday objects, reflecting a playful Q&A style.
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