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Newspaper
Violet Town Sentinel
Location
Violet Town, Victoria, Australia
Date
Sep 24, 1918
Page
4
A compendium of assorted remnants from a bygone era includes comic vignettes on undertakers and jokes about military life, a parliamentary quip involving Lord Forrest and Labor MPs, and a note on a notorious divorce case. The items blend satirical sketches with social observations, reflecting pressy mood and public figures of the time.
A collage of wartime verses and scenes shows patriotism and morale across the home front. Poems evoke flags and sacrifice, while humorous exchanges in a New York cabaret hint at civilian life during conflict. A Marine recruiting song extols loyalty and duty, blending national symbols with everyday wartime grit.
Veteran recounts wartime experiences in the Royal Flying Corps, from joining England’s air service to missions over Cambrai and St Quentin. He describes dangerous dogfights, a wounded observer, rambling German tactics, engine trials, and code of conduct among pilots, ending with reflections on pay and longing for home.
The piece argues misfits arise when people fail to find true vocation. It claims great figures found their proper work and thrived, while those without passion fell into poverty and crime. It criticizes parents pressuring children into unsuitable careers and urges readers to seek fitting callings.
A dated tip piece urges quick sweeping with improvised tools. Use old cakes or millelia lengths as spreaders on heavy furniture, cover areas with sheets, and flap dust outside. After sweeping, remove tools and cover dust-prone areas to prevent recirculation. Personal memory shared from a friend visiting in a hot dusty season.
A pained figure dons a jacket and endures ten days in jail as a priest visits. A South Side family scene follows with a cabbage patch and dinner invitation joke. A British officer’s dinner mishap and crowd humor end with a quip about two German airmen trapped in France.
The piece argues against deep trenching on allotments, urging light turning to preserve surface humus and avoid mixing the pan with subsoil. It covers soil layers, signs of good soil, and cautions on manure types, favoring balanced farmyard manure and gradual incorporation for spring planting.
The text cautions farmers to limit manure mixtures and avoid overuse of substances such as sulphate of ammonium, sulphate of potash, superphosphate, or other chemicals in crop feeding. It stresses balanced fertilization and restraint in chemical applications.
The piece analyzes rising gold prices, government actions and reserves, noting prewar and wartime shifts in gold production and holdings. It cites Treasury figures, bank statements, and public contention over hoarding, with figures touching a billion and more in holdings and a push to protect gold reserves and price stability.
A garbled 19th century newspaper fragment mixes a dental patient scene with a shy humor piece. A dentist dismisses a patient who questions his advice while a woman probes a strange claim about silver ore. Other vignettes follow, including early morning tasks and a wary foreman seeking help, all delivered in a sketchy local tone.
A noisy travel scene mixed with a courtroom exchange. A man named Thomas Brown and others speak in disjointed phrases about travel, family, and an unrelated trial. The barrister presses witnesses while a pastor comments on a ship metaphor and an old sailor jokes about worth and doing nothing.
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