SECTION 8: Popular press, clippings
AUSTRALASIAN SKETCHER 1875
Oh could I taste again of those delicious luscious things
I could pardon him of robbery of other people's rings
I exaggerated principle, my duty I mistook
When I handed over to the law my peerless Chinese cook.
What would I give now for one of his superb ragouts,
His entremets, his entrees, his incomparable stews;
Oh, not a taste and piquancy my happy board forsook,
When I came the JP over my lamented Chinee cook.
The rush to Canoona
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NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS OF 'COOYAL' (G.C. Johnson)
Appear to be from the Western Post Newspaper.
Clippings are pasted into an Anderson's seed catalogue and refer to Mr Johnson's memory of his life in Gulgong and other mining towns between 1870-74.
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On Gulgong during its heydays
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NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS OF 'COOYAL' (G.C. Johnson)
Appear to be from the Western Post Newspaper.
Clippings are pasted into an Anderson's seed catalogue and refer to Mr Johnson's memory of his life in Gulgong and other mining towns between 1870-74.
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NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS OF 'COOYAL' (G.C. Johnson)
Appear to be from the Western Post Newspaper.
Clippings are pasted into an Anderson's seed catalogue and refer to Mr Johnson's memory of his life in Gulgong and other mining towns between 1870-74.
Whenever the lads passed John Stormer's house in Gulgong they'd start the old chantey song 'Stormalong John', the refrain of which ran this wise:
Stormalong
He was an old man with a very long nose;
Eh, storm-along, John!
Who shuffled along on his heels and his toes
Eh, storm-along, John!
Get along, come along, come along � Old Stormy.
One song I remember, was about a continuing squabble between two Irishmen, one Catholic and one Protestant and known as Lodder's Banks, in which occurred something like this:
Come here, you beef-steak eating sinner
And see a papist eat his mullet dinner.
LONE HAND MAGAZINE
Issues 1912/1914
Interested to note an advertisement for Rex's Pork & Beans "For your Xmas camp�creamy white meltingly delicious baked beans with generous quantities of prime dairy-reared pork, and the whole savoured by fruity piquant tomato sauce �what choicer meal could any epicure ask for?
Another frequent advertiser, senior's Pharmacy, 250 George St, Sydney, offered Dugong Oil 'for consumption, colds, coughs and general debility and all physical weaknesses � the best flesh forming medicine known to science.
Mosquitoes
1907 LONE HAND
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