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Dly Mercury (Mackay, Qld) 22 June 22/4: A certain police sergeant down south makes the capture of ‘jockeys’ his hobby, and is on the job night and day. He walks along by the side of a goods train dressed like a tramp rattling a billy-can. At every, likely looking waggon he sings out, ‘Any room in there, mate?’ The stowaway venturing a reply lives to regret it. Dly Mercury (Mackay, Qld) 9 Dec. 8/3: At one time we used to be an abo-liar, but of latter years the painful necessity to graft has knocked all the aboriginalities out of us, but in going over a ‘Bully’ recently we struck several on mean men . Dly Mercury (Mackay, Qld) 28 Apr. 6/1: Many Australian swagman carry the
drum only in the summer months,
which they spend camped on tfie river
fishing and shooting. Dly Mercury (Mackay, Qld) 3 Nov. 4/1: [headline] Railwaymen Come Good [...] 90,000 railway men had enlisted up to the present. Dly Mercury (Mackay, Qld) 17 July 2/3: The editor of the ‘Mercury’ was rather annoyed about calling the paper a sausage wrapper. Dly Mercury (Mackay, Qld) 15 July 9/1: [ex Dly Mail, London] For the word money itself, in Mid-Victorian England, actually more than 40 slang terms were in common use. Few are the survivors. Chink, tin, and dibbs survive merely in schools those strongholds of conservatism. Dly Mercury (Mackay, Qld) 13 May 3/4: There is no basic wage for them, and it is only by yackering from jackass to jackass and taking no heed of the hours that ends can be made to meet. Dly Mercury (Mackay, Qld) 13 May 3/4: There is no basic wage for them, and it is only by yackering from jackass to jackass and taking no heed of the hours that ends can be made to meet. Dly Mercury (Mackay, Qld) 1 Mar. 3: [advert] 1 Lady’s Waist, : 5oz. " 8/6 " . 6/6 doz. / Lady’s Waist, 8oz. " 10/- " " 7/9 doz. / Lady’s Waist, l0oz. " 11/- " 8/6 doz. Dly Mercury (Mackay, Qld) 22 June 11/4: Train jumping to-day is common, and the old sundowner, with his quart, two-quart, and four-quart billies, is scarcely ever worried by the ‘jam-tin brigade’. Dly Mercury (Mackay, Qld) 22 June 11/4: Blow in to any swaggies’ camp in a railway town, ask the campers how the rattler is for a jump, and if they trust you, you will learn all about the movements of train. Dly Mercury (Mackay, Qld) 22 June 11/4: Liberty, with an empty tucker-bag, loses its charms, and hence the reason why those who jump trains worry little over arrests. Dly Mercury (Mackay, Qld) 22 June 11/4: To his more law-abiding brothers in poverty who preferred Shanks’ mare, he was looked, upon as a hobo apart, a disgrace to the profession. Dly Mercury (Mackay, Qld) 22 June 11/4: Blow in to any swaggies’ camp in a railway town, ask the campers how the rattler is for a jump, and if they trust you, you will learn all about the movements of trains. Dly Mercury (Mackay, Qld) 29 May 16/1: Thev had a silly argument on Wednesday night, and a fight afterwards. If anyone said it was over a ‘chop-up’ of money he would say it was a lie. Dly Mercury (Mackay, Qld) 19 Nov. 15/4: It is one thing to grant a license, but it will be another thing to convince the young [...] to take advantage of the hew poison shop. Dly Mercury (Mackay, Qld) 31 Aug. 6/4: Districts where ‘poddy dodging’ (stealing a calf from
the cow) was carried on. Dly Mercury (Mackay, Qld) 9 July 1/8: THE ‘JILLAROO’. The employment of women in the grazing industry has resulted in the coining of a new word to describe female employees on stations. [...] Mr. J. F. Meynink said women employed on New South Wales properties were known as "jillaroos.". Dly Mercury (Mackay, Qld) 10 Sept. 3/2: He seemed to run the Czech veteran back and forth across the baseline at will and was sudden death on anything short. Dly Mercury (Mackay, Qld) 15 Jan. 2/2: NEW THATCH FOR ‘EGGSHELL BLOND’ [...] A ferry fire man who was bald for 10 years now has a thick head of hair. Dly Mercury (Mackay, Qld) 28 Aug. 3/4: The popular beer measure, the seven ounce glass, remains unaltered at nine pence as a result of a decision reached at a meeting of the Toowoomba branch of the Licensed Victuallers.