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Newspaper
Bombala Times
Location
Bombala, New South Wales, Australia
Date
May 19, 1933
Page
2
A Moruya shopkeeper writes that running a shop is a thrilling sport rivaling big game hunting. He details prosaic preliminaries such as window dressing, advertising bait, and the door greeting, noting the daily suspense of customers, arrivals by motor car, and the lively chatter of commercial travellers.
The Tambo Shire Council asked the Postal Department to build a telephone link between Gelantipy and Delegate. The department rejected the plan, estimating £1400 and heavy maintenance for a sparsely settled 50 mile circuit, with only two to three calls daily and strained national finances. Dr Hodge moved to seek Bibbenlakeshire support for a further request.
A terse newsroom snippet notes a cashier absent during business hours asking where the teller is, with responses about racing and a final effort to balance the books. The dialogue hints at financial strain and urgency without detailing names or places.
A fragmentary piece evokes a shaded bowl, golden colors, a warm fire, and hidden names. It reads like a cryptic poem with scattered phrases about spring, dawn, and a distant gathering, leaving much to interpretation.
The article extols Dr Morse's Indian Root Pills as a gentle aid that supports Nature without overriding it. By stirring the liver cleansing the stomach purifying the blood and assisting digestion and assimilation they help when over eating and drinking burdens Nature.
Dry weather across East Gippsland causes grave anxiety for farmers and graziers as stock suffer from lack of fodder and water. Dams and creeks run dry, butter factories report cream down 50 percent, and many dairymen switch to maize grain. Thousands of cattle and sheep move to feed-rich regions, stock prices slump, and scarce water requires two to three inches of rainfall to replenish. Aggregate rainfall this year totals 431 points versus 753 last year.
Air Ministry experts witnessed Senor Cievra's autogyro perform a near vertical descent and hover at 100 feet after a short takeoff, then rise again with engine power increased. The craft with a tri blade rotor landed softly, then hopped hurdles showing vertical takeoff and precision hovering.
In a Boombee banana plantation a 12ft carpet snake fought a scrub wallaby, killed the wallaby, then swallowed it whole. Onlookers captured the reptile and displayed it in Coff's Harbour window until two days later it bled to death from a neck wound. Merimbula gardener found an ancient gold ring in his garden valued at £13. Li Ching Yun, Chinese Methuselah, dies at purported 256 years, claiming longevity from inner calm.
Mr W Wynne Melbourne Herald Works Manager recounts a New York Manhattan Island scene where hundreds lived in eight foot by two foot six inch boxes with a hanging bag and a wireless aerial. He notes Australia is best off after visits to Germany France United States Canada and the United Kingdom.
A collage of oddities reports brass teeth in Borneo, cheese thefts in London, Paris rat control plans, a bandit in disguise, jury exemptions in Corby, nudist bans in Germany, a Gibraltar donkey, jelly with knitting needles contest, a Winchester chicken caper, pension cuts for old soldiers, a California divorce over cinema trips, a bandit’s loot mishap, a self-kill confession, schoolchildren ignorant of basic landmarks, alimony with room and board, colored timber from dyed trees, and a Moldavian elopement.
In Briel the article touches on beauty advice and crude praise of goats as a curious modern tonic. It laments lack of agreement among readers and mentions an income tax collector remark about business men paying taxes without complaint.
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