13 Feb 1919
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Newspaper
Albany Despatch
Location
Albany, Western Australia, Australia
Date
Feb 13, 1919
Page
1
The article discusses dress care and fashion trends, urging hanging garments to avoid wrinkles and praising new industry work in England teaching soldiers embroidery and passementerie. It highlights velvet ribbons, checks in stockings and kerchiefs, hot baths with sea salt for tired workers, and satin hats with various trims including ostrich plumes and tassels.
A lecturer in an Eastern States suburb urges minding one’s own business and condemns scandal mongering. He says before speaking of another’s character, talk directly to them, give a chance to defend themselves, and avoid injuring a woman’s reputation with idle insinuations.
A fragmentary home guidance item outlines making pineapple and marrow jam with long cooling times, sugar ratios, and lemon notes. It also details a cabbage pickle method using brown malt vinegar, ginger, peppercorns, celery seed, and sugar, with repeated vinegar infusions and a fortnight maturation.
The essay guides rural buyers on selecting workhorses. It covers breeding, avoiding faulty sires, dam constitution, and hereditary flaws. It then advises on purchasing criteria including type for the task, conformation, sound feet, and color signals of vigor. It warns against legs and backs prone to strain and stresses practical traits for different kinds of horses.
Practical guide for buying horses and managing feeding in Australia. It covers detecting unsoundness through eyes, legs, wind, and movement. testing for lameness, coughing, or roaring. It warns against rushing sellers, emphasizes wind, digestion, and proper water timing before feeding, and outlines suitable feeds for draught and carriage horses.
The article critiques the League of Nations as democracy weakened by idealism. It argues force may be needed to compel powerful members and questions arbitration’s effectiveness. It notes Britain’s imperial stance and ends with a local meeting resignations and a call to appoint a new secretary.
A public meeting at the Agricultural Mall Forest Hill on Saturday February 1 formed a Yorust Hall committee to raise funds in conjunction with the Mount Barker Armch committee. Manure J B Drage chaired. G A Binning was secretary. others elected were Walter Green Jos Boneham R Muir M Bartlett Chas Drage. Private Hitchine has returned to the Base Hospital after visiting his home district. Fire and ruin across the district. fires left much of the country burnt.
A prewar Paris convention debated whether landowners own the air above their property. The Crown would govern air over all of Britain and extend territorial waters to three miles. Recommendations urged quick action on airworthiness certificates pilots identification passports landing stages and aerial postal services. Eastern Districts Agricultural Society discussed milk herd testing for butter value. North Fremantle Council invites voluntary workers to stocks for influenza outbreak response with roles in food delivery nursing ambulance and patrol duties.
A reflective piece traces the tradition of white horses as favored mounts of great generals and conquerors. It cites Constantinople era heroes, Kent regiments, Castor and Pollux, Napoleon, Petain at Verdun, Marengo, Colonel the horse of Lord Roberts, and Wellington, among others, arguing the white steed symbolizes triumph and legend in military history.
The author argues Albany needs permanent residents and new industries to overcome wartime setbacks. They cite colonial growth since 1826, rail and land policy, and the zone system, urging factories, wool and timber ventures, and cooperative models to attract workers and revitalise the town.
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