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Newspaper
Bombala Times
Location
Bombala, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Jun 14, 1912
Page
4
A fragmented poem by Mrs. Frank ACE interweaves ocean imagery with personal longing for the sea in a reflective monologue. The speaker vows the sea’s call remains within and hints at ancestral ties and a desire for belonging beyond land.
A tale unfolds of Franklyn Hyde pressuring Dick England over Lettie Cardonald. Threats, forged notes, and a fatal night culminate as a phonograph proves England’s alibi while Hyde confronts ruin, crime, and exposure in a tense courtroom drama.
A compendium of practical home remedies and housekeeping advice. Includes methods using vinegar for tender roasting and copper brightening with borax, skin care cleansing with sugar, keeping flowers fresh in raw potatoes, lamp maintenance with paraffin and vinegar, purifying air with brimstone, maintaining gas mantles, lard and blacklead polishing for stoves, lemon to polish bars, turpentine for cleaning paint and moth prevention in drawers and wardrobes.
The passage argues friendships hinge on aligned life views and sincerity. It contrasts the truthful and ambitious with insincere flattery, noting intimate friends must broadly share values. It emphasizes choosing close friends for loyalty in misfortune, even if they differ in other traits.
A period piece advises women to practice deep breathing for a fit figure and better health. It outlines a routine of ten minutes each morning and a slower, controlled inhale hold and exhale. Delicate women should start small and increase as strength grows, promising noticeable results in weeks.
Instructions describe greasing a dish for individual servings and lining with bread rounds. Oysters are opened, liquor drained, then seasoned with black pepper, salt, cayenne, and a squeeze of lemon or similar citrus.
Phyllis Wenwar an orphan becomes the center of a web involving Dr Goofy Hatherley Jack's friend, Sir Marcus aiftersons and the Marshlan owner Lady Jefferson. Marietta Hermai principled and Mrs Agatha Torens figure among the cast with Cass Grisighans a cousin of Lady Jefferson. An unscrupulous agent acts against Phyllis.
A serialized tale follows Phyllis Wentworth in life with Lady Jefferson of Marshlands Essex, as morphia addiction, rivalries, and schemes test loyalties. Dave Grimshaw manipulates Phyllis and Jack, with Geoffrey Hatherley and Marietta contributing, as peril deepens then resolves in a hopeful ending.
A jumbled page blends oyster recipes such as Oysters a la Lucullus with technical, wartime torpedo details. The culinary items list various ingredients and methods while the latter sections describe torpedo components like the air chamber buoyancy and gyroscope. The fragmentary text shifts from kitchen chemistry to naval engineering, and ends mid discussion of weapon firing mechanisms.
The piece explains torpedo types from 18 inch and 21 inch diameters, used by older guards and newer submarines, torpedo boats, destroyers, and battleships. It describes sizes from 1 to 18 feet, warhead weight over 200 pounds of tin cotton, and a new weapon with a speed of 40 knots, highlighting immense underwater damage potential.
The Panama Canal will get a novel acetylene lamp system for its lighthouses. A lamplighter will operate devices 300 million tiles away, with copper cylinders expanding in morning light to release gas and ignite burners by small pilot jets.
A garbled miscellany reports on embedded glass alarm wires in a cafe window, a life-battery setup, and a magnetic switch that rings an alarm if broken. It also notes the 46th surgeon introducing a rapid sewing machine for operations and mentions a reading event with many readers and a concise, precise device.
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