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Newspaper
Bridgetown Advocate
Location
Bridgetown, Western Australia, Australia
Date
Apr 07, 1949
Page
9
Institutes at London University launch Operation Superman a cradle to manhood study. Researchers will follow babies from birth to adulthood assessing behavior with family peers and schooling to advise on parenting and nurture.
Enforcement officers opened three crates marked Rabbits in Belfast and found rabbits’ ears protruding but the contents consisted mostly of turkeys with a few rabbits.
Emma Banks, 82, of Clerkenwell London, ordered by the County Court to quit her rooms after neighbours complained of her talking to herself and keeping other tenants awake.
A new booking office window at Marylebone Station London uses two mica sheets with edge holes as baffle plates to block infected breath. Bacteriological tests are occasionally conducted on the sheets to check for germs and clerks say voices are clearer through the window.
Ivan REMLIN reports a Hollywood style Oscars for agricultural workers with undistinguished labor records receiving bronze busts of themselves to be erected at their birthplaces, a tribute reflecting prize culture extended to farming.
A Durham County restaurant owner was fined £3 plus costs after evading proper Food Ministry record keeping by dropping a pea into a jam jar with every meal served.
In London at Highbury telephones were out of order after thieves lifted manholes and stole lead from the cables. In Indianapolis two men were arrested and charged with stealing a red hot stove.
In Cremorne New South Wales inventor Thomas Lane and his wife reveal a fowl plucking device that strips six birds per minute. The machine uses a duralumin drum and tray with 112 rubber fingers powered by a small motor, with Lane calling his work Lane Industrial Research. He markets himself as an engineer with simple workshops and a converted jig-saw as his main tool.
A Fordson Major tractor built by Ford Motor Co England was tested at Werribee State Research Farm Victoria. Designed for Australian agricultural work the 6 cylinder Perkins diesel engine powers a machine with a 4 horse team capacity. It completed horsepower and drawbar tests under Nebraska code by the Aeronautical Division Department of Supply and Development.
A tawny owl near Mr W Tribe's cottage at Pottall Pool Cannock Chase Staffordshire terrorized residents over a pie purchase. It clawed a workman, struck a forester's hat, and attacked Tribe's 26 year old son before being shot.
Agricultural mechanics student Albert Isfeld developed a vacuum picker for farms to gather seeds that fall and rot. Trials show success with sugar beet, nut, and cranberry seeds but adapting the device to small seeds remains challenging.
Somerset Maugham Yes in one of Charles Chaure first films Sweden 1942 Elsa Lanchester Charles Skouras Penny Singleton and Arthur Lake Trigger They are married.
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