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Newspaper
Traralgon Record
Location
Traralgon, Victoria, Australia
Date
Nov 10, 1899
Page
6
The text outlines the ideal healthy man with a strong heart and well developed lungs, free from excessive tobacco or alcohol use. It explains the body as an integrated system guided by a balanced brain, designed to protect life and sustain thought, with organs properly conditioned and trained for resilience against disease.
A rustic Yorkshire butcher narrates a comic courtship in a dialect poem. He recalls meeting his future wife before wedlock and jokes about the wedding as he weighs her in after their marriage, calculating a tongue in cheek price per pound of wife.
A narrative recounts a 1700 Callao earthquake flood where residents perished except one man. he escaped to a fort and watched the sea recede then surge back like a mountain of water. Amid the panic a cry of Miserers arose as the town’s windows shattered and debris filled the air. The survivor leaped into a small boat as the flood swept the town and passed. A similar legend arises from Vallety in 1737.
A mysterious man around fifty resides alone in a rocky cavern in a scenic valley by the Sun nex coast. Once educated and refined, he endured misfortune, withdrew from society, and now lives on a small hold near the sea. He grows barley and vase, tends a spring, and wears a long overcoat with smoke lingering around his abode, attracting much local curiosity.
A tale of a struggling governess named Elsie who meets a mysterious man at Waterloo Bridge and is drawn into a scheme to carry a white bag containing valuable securities. The bag is exchanged in a train rendezvous at Willesden Junction, yielding nearly forty thousand pounds in bonds and cash, only to reveal a web of deceit tied to a disreputable Champneys and a family dispute over a sister’s fortune.
Odd kitchen tips cover scoring tomatoes without bronzing to relieve hiccough with sugar vinegar, drain care, drain cleaning with soda, and keeping sinks odor free. It gives wood filling with sawdust paste, glue improving with chalk, and fun tips on washing flannels and ventilating rooms. It includes burns aftercare with charcoal, glue hardening with milk, and a potato tips for fluffy results.
An old advertisement-style piece explains kidneys as body scavengers, their failure causing backache and a cascade of symptoms. It promotes Dodds Kidney Pills as a universal remedy, claiming to remove uric acid and restore health, with testimonials and price details.
A fragmentary poem contrasts two kinds of people, the altruistic and the selfish, implying life’s divisions persist. It muses on happiness and sorrow, lifting and bearing burdens, with repeated lines about the two groups and their roles in life.
In Cumberland a boy nearly drowns when he leans from a boat bow and tumbles into the water. A quick, brave companion pulls him from the lake, earning praise for risking his own life. A bystander jokes about deserving the Humane Society medal for the rescue.
A tourist recounts a strange Alabama town scene about a humble cabin and a father and son. The storyteller recalls a boy sent to a grocery with a jug and treacle, and confusion over two trips and returning items. The dialogue hints at superstition and miscommunication in a rural setting.
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