Eat Less Bread
EAT LESS BREAD “London is so full of soldiers,” says Mrs. Holman, who returned yesterday from her trip to Europe, “that one wonders if any...
Author: pjg
Hobart Town 1869
HOBART TOWN, FROM MOUNT WELLINGTON As personal impressions with regard to a place afford the best materials for describing it, this writer’s own impressions, derived...
A Flurry of Plurry Slurry
My old man didn’t swear much and the only cussing I ever really heard from him when I was a youngster was the adjective /adverb ‘Plurry’....
Wowser
John Norton, the editor of the Sydney newspaper Truth from 1891–1916 claimed to have coined the term “wowser”, saying: I first gave it public utterance...
Not aglow? Try Vitadatio!!
VITADATIO HOW IT WAS DISCOVERED ……A certain gentleman in Launceston, Tasmania, found himself one day under an obligation to a gentleman of that town, and...
Newsy Tattle
from the ‘Frankston and Somerville Standard’, 1912-36 Old hands tell me the roads were very bad on the Peninsula in the days when our grand...
To eat or not to eat: that is, ingestion?
THE ODD SPOT GEORGE Bernard Shaw, a vegetarian to the last, gave some thought many years ago to his funeral. He is quoted as once...
Smug Thug Drug Chug
Nazi Leader Once Dangerous Drug Addict I am able to reveal writes the Stockholm correspondent of the London ‘Daily Herald’ that Captain Goering the ruthless...
The Range of Ben Strange
Like many other cartoonists, I first noticed Ben Strange’s work while trawling through old Australian newspapers online for snippets of family history. Ben Strange was...
Cartoons
A few cartoons from old Australian newspapers (1920-1960) – click on any image to start up the slide show. Ben Bowyang – 1936-1979 Originally drawn by...