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  2. AMONG PROMINENT PEOPLE, PAPERS and POLITICIANS

    "Our national honour forbids any sort of reconcilation with England, for that country began the war from the most petty motives, has incited savage people ...

    Article : 81 words
  3. FOR WOMAN'S EYE.

    A useful blouse in Japanese silk, which would look equally smart in washing satin; a material that is in much, favor, for blouses this season, and which is ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 735 words
  4. Advertising

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    Advertising : 197 words
  5. A. M. P. SOCIETY.

    The five months of war-time during its last financial year, whilst affording some explanation of the Blight drop in new business as compared with the ...

    Article : 341 words
  6. GERMAN BREAD.

    Have you tasted bread prepared according to the formula of the German Government? If one wants to have an adequate idea of what the German ...

    Article : 575 words
  7. DEMANDED.

    "We are waging, an appalling war with an enemy who was made economically powerful enough to attempt the [?]bjugation of humanity by practising ...

    Article : 92 words
  8. PARAMOUNT.

    while some shipowners have had all their vessels requisitioned by the Admiralty, others are allowed either to exploit a market which has been unduly ...

    Article : 96 words
  9. SUPERFLUOUS.

    "Use is being made of the present war to influence the public on behalf of a costly railway scheme, which is virtually a rival to the direct North-South ...

    Article : 100 words
  10. MANOEUVRES.

    "If the office of Agent general is a fit subject for manoeuvres and intrigues it should be abolished. If it is to be maintained, it should be conferred on ...

    Article : 67 words
  11. SURFEITED.

    "The nations, surfeited with the horrors and colossal cost of warfare, may be[?]clined to look favorably upon suggestions for the peaceable adjustment ...

    Article : 75 words
  12. MAKE READY.

    Presently the European war Will have an end, and some millions of men will be flung back on the industry of an exhausted world. It will be years ...

    Article : 135 words
  13. CONFIDENCE.

    "The Kaiser is still confident that Germany will win. The Grand Duke of Nicholawiten is confident that Russia will win. Franz Josez is confident that ...

    Article : 67 words
  14. THE MINE SWEEPERS.

    Miss Mary Jay las just despatched to the Queen, 100 pairs of knitted socles for the mine sweepers. This is the third hundred pairs that has been forwarded ...

    Article : 209 words
  15. ENTERPRISE.

    A Fremantle foundry will turn you out relics of the Sydney Emden battle at prices to suit your pocket and patriotism:— ...

    Article : 112 words
  16. EXCELS.

    "There is something in the possession of power that corrupts, and men raised from the ranks of the common people, and entrusted with sceptres, would ...

    Article : 65 words
  17. DRINK

    "And yet since the inauguration of the Commonwealth in 1901, while we have spent 23 millions on defence, we have spent 180 millions on alcoholic ...

    Article : 107 words
  18. BURIED ALIVE FOR 25 DAYS.

    After being buried for 25 days beneath the ruins of Paterno, a peasant named Michele Caiolo (32) was extricated alive and practically unhurt on ...

    Article : 224 words
  19. SHARKS IN MESSINA WATERS.

    In the siculo Calabrian earthquake of 1908, which reduced Messina and Reggio to ruins and submerged more than twice the number of victims as the ...

    Article : 241 words
  20. INFORMING.

    There was much speculation as to the value of Brown's property, and the town gossip set about to find out the facts. ...

    Article : 98 words
  21. DOCTRINES

    "No concession, Mr. Holman was pleased to say, which would have the effect of aiding in the touching of Catholic doctrines, could be granted. ...

    Article : 106 words
  22. DOUBTFUL.

    A few years back the female who drank wine and smoked cigarettes in public, and dallied over midnight suppers in gay restaurants with male ...

    Article : 107 words
  23. NO FEAR IN BATTLE.

    A school teacher who has been all through the war, gives some interesting impressions made upon him by his various experiences, says a Paris ...

    Article : 193 words
  24. "THAT DRESSY TONE."

    "Did your playmate enjoy her visit?" said a mother to her small daughter, who had just bidden adieu to a little friend. ...

    Article : 62 words
  25. PRACTICABLE.

    The deputation from the Stockowners Association and the Pastoralists' Union placed before the Minister a most practicable, reasonable proposition ...

    Article : 88 words
  26. WASTED.

    "If one fourth of the total amount wasted in the country of Cumberland in the last five years had gone into rural development, our exportable surplus ...

    Article : 97 words
  27. THE SAME OLD TYPE.

    An English author, Mr. Spencer Houston, has been blamed for encouraging Gorman conceit by his lavish flattery of the Teutonic race. It would be easy to ...

    Article : 177 words
  28. EDUCATION.

    "Perhaps a longer acquaintance on Mr. Griflith's part with the elaborate and exceedingly costly machinery of our much-bela[?]ed educational system will ...

    Article : 77 words
  29. MARRIED MEN IN THE NEW ARMY.

    Some extraordinary figures were submitted by Captain Walkley in a recruiting speech at Cheetham. "We find at the recruiting offices," he said, "that ...

    Article : 123 words
  30. REASONABLE.

    Stout Old Gent: "What, sixpence for a shaye?" Barber: "Yes, sir; twopence a chin, sir" ...

    Article : 31 words
  31. ERROR.

    "The closing of hotels at six o'clock or closing them altogether will not make, people temperate; and in this is where the so called "temperance" party ...

    Article : 71 words
  32. "AN INCREDIBLE DIFFERENCE."

    "You call understand that I am no longer afraid; besides, I never was in much fear; what is the good of it? Fright does not ward off danger. One ...

    Article : 266 words
  33. HIGH SOUNDING.

    Mike: "What does your son do for a living now?" Pat: "Oh, he's a scientific boxer." Mike: "A pugilist?" ...

    Article : 37 words
  34. FULSOME TERMS.

    "With sincere respect and most friendly sentiments." "The friendly relations now so happily subsisting between the two Governments." "With ...

    Article : 69 words
  35. OF GREAT MOMENT.

    Great importance attaches to the company which Broken Hill mining concerns have formed to take over the Broken Hill Proprietary Company's ...

    Article : 84 words
  36. MOTOR TRENCH DIGGER.

    One of the most wonderful of the motor appliances in use in the war is the motor plough to be seen at work in the German lines. It cut's a trench ...

    Article : 262 words
  37. SAME OLD GAME.

    Undergraduate: "Yes, father, when I have taken, my degree I intend to go in for literature and journalism—write for money, you know." ...

    Article : 55 words
  38. NEW CHAPTER.

    "The declaration of Mr. Lewis Harcourt, Secretary of State for the Colonies, that the Commonwealth Prime Minister will be consulted most fully ...

    Article : 86 words
  39. A CONCESSION.

    "I shall refuse to pay for attendance," said the irate tourist who had been staying at an old fashioned country hotel and who had just been ...

    Article : 128 words
  40. IMPOSITIONS.

    "The average citizen has to bear all the impositon's that the arbitrary forcing up of the workers' wages inflict on him from time to time. Much that he ...

    Article : 141 words
  41. A REGULAR CUSTOMER.

    Person (to parishioner who has come to have the banns put up): "Well, Peter, you must be a rich man now. This is your fourth wife, and they say ...

    Article : 63 words
  42. EGG GURRY.

    Place six hard-boiled eggs (more if needed), shelled and cut in two, in a Lot vegetable dish, and cover with a gravy made in the following mode. Place an ...

    Article : 149 words
  43. INQUIRY.

    "Alderman McElhone's statement of the city Council's financial position was all very well as such statements go. But if the atepayers of Sydney were ...

    Article : 132 words
  44. GENTLY DOES IT.

    Pat was told to break the news gently to Mrs. Doolan, whose husband had been killed at the quarry. "Mrs. Doolan, yor a widder," said ...

    Article : 76 words
  45. ANSWERED.

    Teddy (aged six; shouting to his sister who is courting in siting-room): "Oh, sister! Do come here a minute. I've got something awfully funny to ...

    Article : 72 words
  46. AVOIRDUPOIS.

    Two schoolgirls were busily occupied with their lessons, when the younger asked abruptly:— "What does "avoirdpois" mean?" ...

    Article : 54 words
  47. CONTEMPT.

    "We Germans did not come to the United States to be Americanised; for American institutions and ideals' we have only proround contempt. We came ...

    Article : 44 words
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