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Newspaper
Albany Despatch
Location
Albany, Western Australia, Australia
Date
May 26, 1919
Page
4
On a sunlit island a dying Shane recalls his youth and a devotion with Estelle and Madame. He entrusts Finiti and others, urging Estelle to keep the legacy while contemplating England and a distant future. Estelle endures grief, loneliness, and the lure of home as fate tightens its grip.
In New Guinea Estelle mourns Angus Shane's death and awaits Captain Tucker who arrives bearing gifts. He suggests finding a white overseer for Estelle’s plantations and contemplates her loneliness, while she admits she may need to leave the island, after the dying confession that she may have England-bound kin.
A narrator describes a young woman scarred by harsh judgment from her own people. Her pride, burning vision, and theatrical temper drive her to vow she will stay, persist, and prove them wrong by achieving success and later writing to them.
Prominent Sydney commerce signs include vast coal bunkering works for major shipping firms on the headland’s western side. Over two years foundations walls and tunnels reach depths, with 12 000 perches of masonry and 60 000 cubic yards of excavation. Two movable 100 ft bridges unload coal from Newcastle colliers at about 200 tons per hour, feeding a storage pile 36 ft high.
Postal timings show mail from Perth Fremantle goldfields and Eastern Great Southern Railways offices sent Monday to Thursday at 2 90 pm Friday 5 18 pm Saturday 10 pm for Sunday train departure. Incoming mails from these places arrive Tuesday Wednesday Friday 10 15 am Thursday Saturday Sunday 7 39 am. Denmark line mails close Sundays and Thursdays 6 pm and alternate Saturdays noon. Robinson Estate mails dispatched Wednesday 8 am. Gnowingeryp mail closes Albany Saturday 10 pm Tuesday Thursday na Page.
The notice urges readers to submit district news on land stock and general interest topics written clearly on one side of the paper with name for publication. It emphasizes advertising as vital for business and asserts the paper’s stance on publishing public matters while censoring private content.
A survey of familiar terms shows roots in Hebrew, Sanskrit, Latin and old English for words like father and mother. It traces modern slang such as swank absolutely and spank to earlier uses, notes shifts in flapper and topping, and explains Yankee from early colonial usage and later British references.
A study of how terms like quhew quh and influenza evolved, noting shifts in usage from the 14th to 20th centuries. It traces changes in words such as pretty nice wedlock bambooale and demobbed, and discusses spelling pronunciation and origins of phrases like beanfeast and good bye.
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