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  2. Towns Without Taxes!

    In these days of expensive living, when everything costs double what it used to, and four times more than you can afford to pay, what a boon ...

    Article : 312 words
  3. Prahran and Malvern Tramways Trust.

    At Monday's Prahran Council meeting Cr Naylor, the council's representative on the Prahran and Malvern Tramway Trust, was ...

    Article : 172 words
  4. WORLD-WIDE NOTES.

    Ship-cargoes are often responsible for the introduction of quite new species of insects in different lands. [?] bunches often hide poisonous ...

    Article : 147 words
  5. WORLD-WIDE NOTES.

    Among its many other peculiarities South Africa includes the sneese-wood tree, which takes its name from the fact that one cannot cut it with ...

    Article : 115 words
  6. [?] WONDERFUL PALACE.

    The of Russia's Winter Palace is at Petrograd, and it is probably the most wonderful [?] residence in the world. Some of Its rooms, of ...

    Article : 88 words
  7. THE FIRST MATCHES.

    To the ordinary man matches are quite inconsiderable, since he thinks of them by the box, so often obtained for nothing—o next to it. But ...

    Article : 153 words
  8. GETTING WARM IN A COLD BED.

    Many people have to sleep in cold rooms in winter, and some, not being able to warm up readily after entering the bed, lie awake a long ...

    Article : 148 words
  9. CR PICKFORD'S COMPLAINT.

    Cr Pickford stated that on a recent occasion he entered a Malvern road tram at Kooyong road, and paid a 2d fare with the intention of ...

    Article : 107 words
  10. [?] in Khaki.

    "Give a dog a bad name and hang him," says the old proverb ; but this does not apply to our dogs of war. Some of our Tommies are most ...

    Article : 300 words
  11. ARMED PLANTS.

    Many plants protect themselves from their enemies by the use of spikes or prickles, and venom, just as certain animals do. Of those ...

    Article : 139 words
  12. TONGUES THAT KILL.

    The tongues of some animals. are very dangerous weapons. A lion could speedily kill a man by merely licking him with his tongue. The ...

    Article : 122 words
  13. SUNDAY CABLE TRAMS.

    Cr Woodfull stated that on Sunday afternoons the cable trams started from St. Kilda at 25 past 1, but from the opposite direction ...

    Article : 61 words
  14. CLEAN LINEN FOR STEAMSHIPS.

    Immaculate napkins and sheets are such a matter of course on the big trans-Atlantic passenger steamships that little thought is given as to ...

    Article : 137 words
  15. Punt Road Footbridge.

    The Melbourne, Prahran and Richmond councils recently jointly paid the cost of repairing the Punt road footbridge. The Prahran ...

    Article : 156 words
  16. LANGUAGE OF WINDMILLS.

    In Holland births, marriages, and deaths, instead of being recorded in newspapers, are indicated by wind-mills. When a miller gets married, ...

    Article : 127 words
  17. THE OLDEST TREATY.

    When he was entertained by the Governor of Madeira on his way to South Africa the late Mr. Chamberlain made the interesting statement ...

    Article : 362 words
  18. BIBLES ON WATCH-CHAINS.

    The devout in all lands have their own particular way of giving outward demonstration to their piety. In Russia it frequently takes the form ...

    Article : 117 words
  19. Typist to Prima Donna.

    One of the most successful singers in America, Mme. Alma Gluck started life as a stenographer in a New York office, and rose to her present ...

    Article : 339 words
  20. Proposed New Railway.

    Speaking at the Prahran council on the proposed railway from Healsville to Narbethong, Cr Naylor said objection had been ...

    Article : 106 words
  21. RANK AND HIGH HEELS.

    Boot-heels are of Persian origin, and were originally attached to sandals in order that the wearer might keep his feet above the bruning sands. ...

    Article : 62 words
  22. RUSSIA'S ROADS.

    Russia is almost a roadless land. It is inconceivable to the foreign visitor who has ever left the beaten track of the railways in Russia how ...

    Article : 159 words
  23. Rechabite Demonstration.

    The annual demonstration of the Junior branches of the I.O.R., Southern Group, No. 2 Division, will be held in the Prahran City ...

    Article : 87 words
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