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Newspaper
Bombala Times
Location
Bombala, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Jun 29, 1923
Page
3
A shopper bursts into a barber shop and announces he is stocked with every toilet item. He lists pomade shaving cream moustache dye and other products but rebuffs any sales pitches, insisting the barber not try to sell anything. The exchange ends with the man demanding a simple shave without offers to buy.
An article describes how ostriches are corralled and sent into a small enclosure where six workers pluck 150 birds in a day using head bags and plucking boxes. In a separate vignette Dorothy is judged by her fastidious eating and questions whether she will eat the beak of an egg.
A magistrate frets over a case mislabelled bigotry as trigonometry in a satirical scene while a private coal merchant judge muses on law. The text then shifts to Diamond cutting origins in Amsterdam, noting early home workshops, the first steam-powered factory in London 1824, Amsterdam 1840, and Asscher’s massive polishing plant with Amsterdam’s annual diamond trade valued around £4,250,000 and US demand at about £7,000,000 polished.
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