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Newspaper
Albany Despatch
Location
Albany, Western Australia, Australia
Date
Jun 11, 1923
Page
4
Fragmentary OCR from a historical page mentions amusements, events, and local naming but contains garbled phrases. It references people and places in a broad civic context with scattered terms like stores, streets, and public notices, though specifics are unreadable.
The piece previews a major studio lineup with Wheeler, Rogers, and Mary Pickford in a Western comedy blending romance with frontier myth. It notes behind the scenes tensions, star power, and a forthcoming montage of supporting acts from Vitagraph and Pathé, including Tonderfoot Luck and other attractions.
A long, fragmentary film column surveys 1920s cinema with references to Hal Barhertend in Phork Sevres, Dorothy Jitters, HeLa Pede, and Lat Mise Chitton. It highlights Gloria Swannott in The Dinkwin Blobe, Milto Davies productions Adio and Eva, and the cast list for Dawn of the East, plus a Tudor scene featuring Marion Davies as Mary and Charles Brandon.
Fragmented ad copy touts Donn’s Backache Kidney Pills as a cure for back pain and kidney ailments. Endorsements cite a Mrs. J H Powe describing relief after using six bottles, with prices listed and distribution via Fos eros Co at Murray Street Perth.
British and Egyptian engineers plan vast Nile projects including a two mile long Sennar dam near Mukwar and a White Nile reservoir at Gebel Auliq to irrigate up to three million acres for cotton. The works involve 4000 to 5000 British and Sudanese staff, with heavy financing and a potential boost to cotton production and river management in Egypt, amid wartime funding gaps.
The article examines Charles Dickens's complex stance on faith and morality, contrasting his critique of rigid dogma with a deep personal faith. It highlights his empathy for the poor, his call to live virtue over mere ceremony, and his cheerful religion as a moral corrective to pompous sermons.
A reader’s extended critique denounces sectarianism and hypocrisy while praising Charles Dickens. The author contrasts Dickens’s humane impulses with bigoted statements about religion, while lauding his humanitarianism and tolerance and reflecting on religious reform and the Bible.
Lucerne ranks first among age crops for pigs and hay proves valuable fed in open racks or ground. Rape is next, provides two feedings per sowing, but pigs need gradual acclimation. Peas, wheat, barley, maize, and millets offer green or ripe feed. pumpkins suit with maize. Roots like carrot, mangels, parsnips are labor intensive but good, while turnips and swedes risk disease.
A Kunko correspondent recalls trying to buy advice to eat more fruit. Apples were plentiful in the south, and a friend at Copel gave him two cases shipped from Albany at a cost of 8/11. To cover freight to Hopetoun, 6 was sent to the State Shipping Service. Ten days later a Hopetoun tax appeared for 10/- agency rail and attendance at Albany and Hopetoun. Two cones of free fruit thus cost 18/1, prompting him to abandon importing fruit.
A short note stresses keeping the butter churn clean to prevent tainting. It warns that a dirty churn leads to tainted product and describes how a large lid or open access aids thorough cleaning to avoid trouble.
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