Browsing old newspapers is a bit like rummaging through a jumble of second hand shops in the lead-up to Christmas. You go looking for a small surprise to tuck into a stocking and instead find all manner of oddities.
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This Saturday, 6 December, Daylesford will once again come alive with the music, colour and community spirit of the 74th Daylesford Highland Gathering, a traditional community event that dates back to 1952.
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Phrenology took Australia by storm in the 19th century but a presentation on the topic in Albert Hall, Daylesford, in 1882 did not draw large crowds.
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The United Nations International Mountain Day is celebrated each year on 11 December. The Great Dividing Trail Association is Celebrating the Day by leading six walks to peaks in Victoria’s Central Highlands.
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John Goodwin Howe was a wealthy Daylesford merchant who gave Howe Street its name. Documents from his estate provide an insight into the cost of living in the 1880s.
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The assault this week on a Council officer is intolerable in any civil society. Frustration and disagreement with Council decisions are no excuse for vilification, abuse, physical confrontations or violence. If we want a safer and more constructive public sphere, we need to confront the environment that allowed this to happen.
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Horse racing has long been a part of life in Daylesford and district. In the 19th century, local...
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Recent media coverage of “red carpet” events and “fashions in the field” shows how much attention is still paid to what women wear. But while fashion is often portrayed as a product of women’s vanity or self-indulgence, the forces driving female fashion have long involved male influence.
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Daylesford Primary School is marking its 150th anniversary this year, and the Daylesford Museum is calling on locals to help celebrate by contributing photographs, memorabilia and memories for a special exhibition.
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Each year on November 11, Australians pause to remember those who served and died in wars, conflicts, and peacekeeping operations. The Daylesford Advocate reported the first Remembrance Day in the township in 1919.
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In the late 19th century, Daylesford residents often looked beyond the local hospital to treat their medical complaints and the Daylesford Advocate was full of advertisements with generous promises of good health.
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Although often called ducks, these elegant birds are actually more closely related to geese. The group appears to be a mixed brood, with one pair of adults fostering ducklings from another family, a common behaviour among wood ducks.
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