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Advertising : 1,824 wordsThe official wheat statistics for the season of 1878-9 are now in print, and make their appearance about three weeks earlier than last year. The yield of the late harvest, from these returns, appear to ...
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Article : 822 wordsNew Morning Star G. M. Company.—A special meeting of the shareholders in the abovenamed Company was held on Thursday evening at the office of Mr. R. H. Price, manager; Mr. W. Hart in the ...
Article : 196 wordsIt is not often that the British Architect is the vehicle for drollery, but the following account it quotes as having been sent in by an artist in Belgium for repairing an old church, is, to my mind ...
Article : 325 wordsBefore Mr. Tarleton, Police Magistrate, and Mr. Downing, J.P. OBSCENE LANGUAGE.—Henry Jackson, charged with using obsoene language, was fined 10s. 6d., with the ...
Article : 708 wordsSIR, —The publichouse is regarded by perhaps all members of society, except the publican and his landlord, as the source of a huge misery. The quiet family regards it as the enemy of its peace, the clergyman as ...
Article : 1,427 wordsDon't think when you have won a wife that you have got also a slave. Don't think that your wife has less feeling than your sweetheart. Her relationship to you is simply ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Sat 5 Apr 1879, Page 3
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