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Newspaper
Warrnambool Standard
Location
Warrnambool, Victoria, Australia
Date
Jul 28, 1917
Page
8
Daphne confronts Lord Mendham and a hidden gambling room as Eileen laments a thwarted romance. A servant conspiracy unfolds in the Mendham estate with roulette, cards, and onlookers as Daphne discovers the house’s dangerous underbelly.
The piece extols returning men on hospital ships embodying courage and faith in Allied victory. It urges Austalian men to enlist, stressing reinforcements, shared sacrifice, and the duty to defend homeland. A second fragment recalls a Scotsman and a grisly cottage scene in a personal march of memory.
The piece argues true courage grows not in ease but through trial. It reflects on climbing life’s mountain and weathering clouds, suggesting struggle refines the mind and powers to endure the race of life. A Hare from Cooranbang NSW signs with hopeful cloud-steps toward a higher home.
In his new volume In Slums and Society Canon Adderley cites Gladstone doubting American jet and humor, recalling a Yankee joke about distance and two men from Chicago and St Louis wagering on who could say the bigger We in minutes, ending with a quick cash payoff.
A Lincolnshire curate famed for smoking retires to the vestry before sermons. During one service he consults the clerk Joshua on the singing, contends with the gown as he dons the black attire, and the quip lands on the devil in the gown.
A preacher-style discourse uses the tale of Jack Sprat to argue for harmony in marriage. It extols shared duties, balanced appetites, and cooperative division of labor while urging couples to embrace similarity and difference to maintain happiness and avoid conflict.
A lively dialogue on allotment life with farmer boys digging, finding old bones and boots, and contemplating crops and plots. The speaker mocks trends like potato farming and offers comic schemes such as growing plaice and sugar canes. The piece ends with a jab at pessimists and a call to plant for the country’s food.
A grocer attends customers when a polite boy asks for dry herrings and jokes about giving him a drink. The grocer responds kindly, offering a gentle, benevolent reply to the innocent request.
An early 20th century advertisement for a homemade hair restorer claims to remove dandruff, cleanse the scalp, promote hair growth, and restore natural color even to faded or grey hair. It instructs mixing Procure ltzoz of Rejuvent Compound with Bay Rum and water, then applying nightly to the roots. The ad cites Ah. Henshall, Chemist, South Melbourne, offering these ingredients and shipping by post.
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