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Newspaper
Bowral Free Press
Location
Bowral, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Jan 09, 1904
Page
1
An evocative travel sketch describes the Merdo glace on Mount Blanc as a vast ice river beneath snow filled peaks. It captures the ascent via Montanvert, the Alpine scenery, ice crevasses, avalanches, and the perilous blue depths, ending with a reflective note on viewing the icy landscape and its hazards.
A garbled OCR passage describes Ayers Sarsaparilla and an official clerical figure in Great Yarmouth presiding over numerous weddings. It notes about 11,000 weddings attended, 1200 brides, ages 16 to 20, with at least one ceremony solemized eight years after bans were published and a clergyman who read bans for 68 couples.
The report cites Mr Deakin and colleagues criticizing federal immigration policy in Australia as harmful to development. It notes a recent crowd incident at a pantomime where about 1200 people risked danger and many suffocated or burned. contrasting school safety practices on nearby island where 950 children were orderly evacuated as music played.
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