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Newspaper
Blackwood Times
Location
Blackwood, Western Australia, Australia
Date
Jun 11, 1909
Page
4
Step by step directions to splice wire rope with six strands and hemp core. Describes tools, setup around pulleys, marking center, unlaying strands, interlocking, adding hammer clamps, cutting hemp core, tightening, and extending splices if rope slackens. Includes precautions for maintaining rope diameter and alignment.
The mangel, now valued by Stock-owner, originated in North Germany around 1760 and reached Britain about 25 years later. Its name, German for root of starvation, arose from famine forcing people to seek any vegetable food. The piece contrasts its early discovery with a classroom pun about labour and capital, ending with a joke about Woods’ Great Peppermint Corn.
G don Eastman and E W Unms along with Canon Darl E S er and Dr S Hart receive appointments from the local board. Hon See, and Hon S HART are listed among the nominees and may serve in advisory roles.
The article discusses regenerative capabilities in worms, noting head and tail regeneration under various conditions and occasional deformities. It shifts to poultry, arguing success depends on common sense, breeding, care, and marketing, urging poultrymen to use brains to profit.
Defence Department funds a musketry prize as Light Horse troops gather in Buntury next Saturday and Sunday. On Sunday afternoon a rifle match will determine the best shooting troop amid local military interest.
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