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Detailed lists, results, guides : 225 wordsAn electrical stroke was administered to the calf, also with fatal effect. As Dr G.E. Fell, of Buffalo, who was present, claimed to have an apparatus that would resuscitate ...
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Article : 96 wordsThe premises of Mr. E. Shaw, grace were broken into about 3 o'clock on the morning of the 18th inst. A sister of Mr Shaw, who sleeps in a room over the shop ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 367 wordsDrs MacDonald and Rockwell, of the committee, had previously experimented on various animals, including dogs, calves and horses, and had found that a current of ...
Article : 96 wordsA Mrs Margaret Jennings, whose address is Broken Hill, was on the night of the 17th instant robbed of a gokl locked not with rubies, long god chain, diamond carring ...
Article : 56 wordsThat which was left undecided is a matter of importance to the users of telephones. The great cause of safety for the public using these instruments is the readiness ...
Article : 105 wordsMrs Braddock, Wife of the Rev. J. Braddock, of Rowena Parade, Richmond, was robbed of her purse in a crush at the Prince's Bridge railway station on the 17th instant. ...
Article : 53 wordsNeuralgia is, in these colonies, one of the most prevalent of the ills that flesh is heir to, and the female portion of the community suffer very much form it. The subject has ...
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Family Notices : 231 wordsSome time between 7 p.m. on the 17th and 7 a.m. on the 18th inst. a robbery was committed at the drapery establishment of Messrs Russell, Robson and Russell. The ...
Article : 135 wordsThe maximum voltage of the electric companies carrying on operations in Melbourne varies form 1000 to 2000 volts. As a current of 1000 volts was found sufficient ...
Article : 93 wordsThe rare spectacle or a gentlemanly-looking European apologising to a Chinese, was witnessed in the City Court this morning. He had assaulted the Mongolian, and the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 101 wordsEmil Sander, commercial traveller, reports that on the night of the 17th instant he was robbed of a letter of credit for L80, a Russian Leather pocket-book, containing ...
Article : 54 wordsThere is a gentleman in Melbourne who claims, with pride, to have received 1000 volts from one of the electric lighting wires in the city, while arranging certain lines ...
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Advertising : 71 wordsA lodger at an hotel at Footscray, named Frank Railing, has reported the theif of a watch from his bedroom to the local police. The article is valued at L5. ...
Article : 32 wordsA meeting of the hotelkeepers of Fitzroy was held yesterday evening at Boland's Champion Hotel, Brunswick street. There was a large attendance, and considerable ...
Article : 186 wordsWith electricity, as with other things, what would kill one man would not kill on another. The destruction of life depends on the personal resistance of the individual. ...
Article : 107 wordsThe Rev. Isidore Myers, B.A., who has resigned the position of minister of ;the East Melbourne Hebrow Congregation, will leave Melbourne for Europe on Friday next ...
Article : 280 wordsA respectable looking young woman, named Mary Gilbert was placed in the dock at the Richmond court this morning charged with obtaining money and goods by false ...
Article : 307 wordsThe general order issued by the General commanding the Military Forces of Victoria affords another proof that he is essentially a soldier of the practical school, ...
Article : 1,019 wordsProminent electricians throughout the United State have recently replied to circulars to them by the "Electric Age," of New York, containing a series ...
Article : 120 wordsA cool and evidently well-formed plan of ;burglary was put into execution last night on the premises of the Leviathan Clothing Company in Rourke street. At ...
Article : 271 wordsThe arrangements in connection with the Annual Commencement, which takes place on Saturday, 26th inst. Will be [?] similar to last year. The various societies in association ...
Article : 109 wordsThe question, Would the existing danger be entirely overcome by placing the wires underground? elicited an almost unanimous "No 1" Only two experts were found to ...
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The Herald (Melbourne, Vic. : 1861 - 1954), Sat 19 Apr 1890, Page 2
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