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Newspaper
Bathurst Daily Argus
Location
Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Jun 19, 1909
Page
4
Lee battles fear to rescue Cecil Arbuthnot after a fall in the Blue Rock march. Ancha and Tim watch as Lee’s resolve grows and Arbuthnot bleeds, while Dilek and others confront pride, danger, and an awkward confession of love.
Fragments discuss Victory Hugo, funding figures, and family ties with unclear totals. Mentions include James Paterson at the Royal Institution, Empress visits, and reactions to younger artists, alongside telegrams from Lloyd George and references to church figures and patrons. The text is garbled but preserves names like Empress, Mr. Patterson, and Mr. Lloyd George.
A damaged text fragment shows Amid Mogera and an unnamed woman in a tense exchange. He insists he is not going home yet and responds with a hopeful, teasing line as she speeds up. The scene emphasizes emotion over action.
An advert claims Copren's Heaps Mothers Flosaine for the Hair is perfectly harmless and prevents daudrudt while keeping the scalp healthy. It allegedly destroys pests and parasites, promising a lice free head for school children. Sold by chemists and stockists including Sydney agent and Luthwood Street chemist.
A French centivel in Algeria mistook a passerby for a camel during a quiet inspection. The sentry challenged him and the man apologized, claiming he thought the marcher was a camel, prompting a terse exchange.
Medicines that aid nature are most successful. Chamberlain's Cover Remedy acts on this plan. It allays the cough aids expectoration relieves the lungs opens secretions thereby aiding nature in throwing off a cold and restoring the system to health. For sale by L Edgley and Co Bathurst.
A Melbourne hearing examined the need for stricter motor vehicle licensing as a 13 year old was cited for unsafe driving near a railway. Evidence suggested many inexperienced drivers, while the defense claimed underage workers were misrepresented. Magistrate comments noted confusing testimony and administrative delays in case transmission.
Fragmentary OCR describes a child in a church scene during prayer as he sits on a cushion and mishears a whispered question. The narration centers on Johnny’s confusion and the unintended gossip among attendees as a woman behind him prays.
Fragmentary OCR text shows a courtroom reference with a charge and a remark by a speaker claiming innocence. Names, dates, and clear context are unreadable, leaving the core event only as a courtroom proceeding note with limited details.
A digest of skyline scale facts describing a modern New York skyscraper. It lists bricks, copper, steel, piping, electricity, elevators, and steam, with distances and measures illustrating the building’s vast scope and the supply lines required for construction and operation.
A garbled excerpt reveals a question about an ancient calendar system. It discusses month lengths with odd and even months, February with 25 days in common years and 10 in leap years, and attributes month names to Julius Caesar and Augustus. The text resembles a puzzle on calendar history and Roman-era naming conventions.
A fragmented text discusses months and day counts, proposing changes to August September November December and related adjustments. It mentions rearranging the calendar to address vanity in the naming and length of months.
An airship of the British Army appeared on Farnborough Common near Aldershot. The craft resembles a whale with four long slung gondolas and a 100 foot length. It carries 45 000 cubic feet of lifting gas and features a car under the balloon with two crew, forward planes, and a shock absorbing descent device as Colonel Capper and his engineer test balance amid a gale.
Fragmented OCR text mentions East Arion and New York regarding a hunting expedition. References to President Roosevelt, interventions, congratulations, and remarks about a law called a glorious Yorpet appear in garbled form with no clear dates or context.
A London office promotes a salvage venture by a company with capital around 200,000 and retired British admirals on its board. The goal is to raise seventeen galleons of treasure from a 1702 shipwreck near Vigo, using a hydroscope and Cavaliere Guisoppio’s device, with Spain granting a concession for 2 percent of recovered treasure since 1946.
At the half yearly meeting of the governors of University College Aberystwyth in Wales, Hon Lewis Thomins announced a gift to the college. He presented 2100 Western Australian Thread Hall per cent Debentures to fund the Gialea scholarship for elementary school boys from the district of Talybont near Aberystwyth, led by Mr Thomas a native of Talybont.
Fragmented OCR text shows jokes and quotes about familiar proverbs. It mentions a boy speaking to a miss about back rent and references a children's event and Woods peppermint cure. The readable items mix dialogue and nonsensical captions from an old page.
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