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Newspaper
Albany Despatch
Location
Albany, Western Australia, Australia
Date
Apr 30, 1925
Page
4
A vintage guide lists eighteen donts for players and eighteen for barrackers and umpires. It emphasizes staying focused on the game, obeying captains, avoiding fouls and argument, maintaining pace, and playing steadily from training ground to match.
Land notices announce open allotments in Plantagenet District north-west of Warrenup and near Albany and Denmark. Locations list multiple tracts with sizes from about 10 to 8200 acres, prices per acre, and survey and sizing conditions under Part V, VI, VII and VIII with various cancelled leases and notes on survey costs.
The Albany Roads Board discussed road maintenance and funding including a proposed crossing at Kwakolup contingent on £2 10s payment, road drainage and repairs at Marbellup, and feeder road grants. They approved plans for weed control, insurance reminders for passenger safety, and set a future meeting date while noting tender reviews for Kronkup road works.
A review discusses James Barrie and his unpublished novel A Child of Nature. It argues the work, though promising, risks misplacement in the market and is likely to be discarded by the wrong hands, reflecting on the perils of early works and publication luck.
A historical survey traces early timekeeping across civilizations. Water clocks in Athens and China, and early Korean gauges, measured day progress and rainfall linked to crops. The piece notes hour divisions, seasonal changes, and ornate bronze water-clock artifacts from ancient Korea.
Fragmentary OCR notes mention the Aberdeen liner Saphoclas arriving with 64 new sisters including 12 somnopa and 14 jemi fr. No clear event, place, or date can be determined from the legible text.
Local station master J P Scanlon provides the winter timetable for Albany to Perth and the Denmark line. Perth to Albany trains run daily at 4 00 PM except Saturday, 6 28 PM Sunday excluded. Albany to Perth departures and arrivals listed with days and times.
The timetable shows departures from Albany at 7:00 a.m. and 8:30 a.m. with arrivals in Denmark around 11:56 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. Return trips depart Denmark at 1:00 p.m. and arrive Albany about 4:45 p.m. The text also notes Friday timing and a Dawah 11.54 reference.
The notice lists weekly coach services for the Main Line and a route between Albany and Denmark. It shows departure times from Albany and Denmark, with intermediate stops and varied daily and midweek timings. The timetable includes Tuesday and Wednesday departures with arrivals at established times and days.
Dr Helin Gookin of Boston announces a Vienna discovered treatment for eye disorders using pure milk injections into the lumbar area. The doctor says it can cure birth eye issues and certain infections within days, though not complete blindness, and expects wider use as the method gains attention.
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