Some time ago we undertook the somewhat interesting and rather pathetic task of giving in these columns from old files, reminiscences of early history of Kilmore and ...
Article : 2,061 wordsWhen Charles Darwin was visiting the country house of his friend, the two boys of the family thought they would play a joke on the scientist. So they caught a butterfly, a ...
Article : 158 wordsYou boasted the Day, and you toasted the Day, And now the Day has come, Blasphemer, braggart, [?] coward all, ...
Article : 289 wordsHenry Ward Beecher was upon one occasion in the midst of an eloquent political speech where some wag in the audience crowed like a cock. It was done to perfection, and ...
Article : 121 wordsHere is a true, if strange story:—A poor school teacher in a country town, pinched down by the constraint of penury, was as worn and faded in her appearance as in her ...
Article : 281 wordsWhen the young Prince Tsai-Too was at a fashionable luncheon in New York he sat beside a lady prominent in a rich and rather fast set. ...
Article : 72 wordsThe tactful girl is welcome everywhere. She is usually successful in the home, in so ciety and business, besides being a comforter in 'trouble and one who can enter heartily ...
Article : 231 wordsAn amusing story of Lord Balcarres relates that he had theory that when a man tries to pick your pocket he always does so on the opposite side to that on which the ...
Article : 148 wordsNo farmer should fail to raise the heifers from his good cows. The expense of raising a heifer is paid in instalments, and when a cow is bought, it ...
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Advertising : 952 wordsThey were building a new school and the leading bricklayer, Pat Murphy by name, was rather slow about his work. At last the foreman blurted out: ...
Article : 63 wordsSome time ago an Englishman who stopped overnight at a Western American hostelry noticed that instead of ringing a bell or sounding a gong, at meal-time, the proprietor ...
Article : 223 wordsTennyson once arrived at Hazelmere Station carrying a heavy parcel of books; and his own carriage not having arrived to meet him, he was glad to accept the offer of a ...
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Kilmore Free Press (Kilmore, Vic. : 1870 - 1954), Thu 11 Mar 1915, Page 1
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