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Some Everyday Folk and Dawn

It is 1904 and women's suffrage has hit the small town of Noonoon. Though the election campaigners preen themselves for the women's vote, the fight isn't entirely won, for the male residents are bristling at this threat to their supremacy. And down at Clay's there are other problems too: Dawn is now a young woman and in these days of slender chances Grandma Clay must keep an eye on the marriage market. But Dawn, lively and outspoken wants a career on the stage. - Summary by Trove - National Library of Australia (9 hr 16 min)

Chapters

Dedication and Glossary

Clay's

At Clay's

Becoming acquainted with Grandma Clay

Dawn's ambition

Miss Flipp's uncle

Grandma Clay's love story

The little town of Noonoon

Grandma turns nurse

The knight has a stolen view of the lady

Provincial politics and semi-suburban dentists

Andrew disgraces his rarin'

Some sideplay

Various events

The passing of the trains

Alas! Miss Flip!

Advance Australia!

Mrs Bray and Carry come to issues

The foundation of the poultry industry

An opportunely inopportune douche

Alas! How easily things go wrong!

Things go more wrong

O Spirit, and the nine angels who watch us...

Universal adult sufferage

Little odds and ends of life

Love's young dream

Off with the old

One might think better of marriage if one's married friends...

Let there be love

The savage sells or exchanges his daughter, but in...

For further particulars consult 'The Noonoon Advertiser' of that date.