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The Sydney Gazette. Thursday 4 March 1
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A man that procured his livelihood by bird catching, named (we believe) Edward Maidman, for the last fortnight or three weeks gave himself up to intense drinking. One day last week he was in a Pitt-street public-house, apparently well in health, when suddenly he leaped towards the ceiling, fell [...]
When you want to put the clock out and
you try to wind the cat;
When the pavement comes to meet you and
the lamp post lifts its hat;
When you can’t jusht findsher key hole
landing home at 1 half past three
You may take the wife’s word for it that
you’re drunk as you can be.
When a purple snake [...]
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The Sydney Gazette and… Saturday 18 March 1826, page 3.
Hannah Moss, free, whose squalid and repulsive appearance might have set her above the imputation of being of that loose description of character, which she afterwards was proved to be, was sentenced as a notorious prostitute to the muse of correction, (the Factory; for [...]
DRIVER FOUND DRUNK.
The Argus Saturday 12 September 1925, page 35.
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A charge of having been drunk while in charge of a horse and vehicle in Gertrude Street on September 10 was preferred against Albert Williams, aged 40 years, at the Fitzroy Court on Friday. Mr. F. J. Bennell, J.P, was on the bench. Constable McFarlane said:-On [...]
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The Canberra Times Saturday 9 April 1949, page 1.
DRUNK RODE HORSE
ORANGE, Friday. Charged with riding a horse while under the influence of liquor, George Edward Hawtin, 19, drover, was fined £5 in the court to-day. Police said Hawtin had, hls arms around the horse’s neck to keep from falling off.
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Wine gives a man nothing… [...]
