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RESOURCEFUL MOTHER
Rockhampton
Gladys Hinchcliffe, aged three, drank a quantity of strychnine. Her life was saved by the resourcefulness of her mother who administered a simple salt and water emetic and later gave the child some charcoal followed by a drink of milk.
Northern Territory Times
Edna Higgins opened her eyes slowly, burrowing back into the cushions of the chaise lounge. She could hear Rowland and Clyde discussing colour palettes somewhere nearby. It was past noon; the morning sun no longer cast its shaft through the glass panels of the French doors. Rowland had carried her down that morning so that she would not have to spend another day confined to her bed. It had been five days since she had come out of sedation to find the men she lived with gathered about her hospita
