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Newspaper
Bridgetown Advocate
Location
Bridgetown, Western Australia, Australia
Date
Aug 04, 1949
Page
11
Editorial lauds His Majesty's sloop Amethyst for navigating the Yangtse and rescuing British prestige in Asia. It argues the daring voyage boosts courage over dollars and restores respect for Britain's character amid global views on power and economics.
Radio based crop drying in Britain shows a prototype that dries about 3 pounds of material per hour from 36 pounds of wet grass. The unit claims higher efficiency and carotene content than traditional methods.
Violet Brindle protested in Blackpool England that her husband tried to force her quitting work as a tram conductor by blocking her trolley line with a crowd, burning the skirt of her uniform, and burning the supper hot penny.
A London doctor challenges eye photos of murder victims as proof of a culprit and debunks myths from exaggerated exercise after 40 to hair growth and left heart bias. It cites Dr Thomen on exercise, hair and baldness myths, blood pressure norms, and myths about last thoughts at death and facial features.
Fifteen farm tractors were moved by air from an unidentified location in Northern Rhodesia using a Bristol freighter. The flight covered 611 air miles, with two tractors in the forward hold and four passengers in the rear cabin.
An exchange hints at plans involving Henry arriving around nine, with a playful correction about the exact time being ten to nine. The informal dialogue emphasizes punctuality and curiosity about the late meeting.
An unsigned item notes a small box labeled P4000 at the Enfield Laboratory. The text compares P4000 to saccharin and a 1920 discovery, describing sweetness levels and potential use in cakes, jams, and medicines, while hinting at ethical and practical concerns in food use.
Mr Fred Hoyland a 51 year old Yorkshire dairy farmer and his wife watched Ministry of Fuel men at work on boring operations. Three years ago half of the 20 acre Town Farm at Bretton near Wakefield was torn up for open cast coal mining. Afterwards the levelled land was re sown for grazing.
A new coal seam lies 75 feet beneath Hoyland’s fields prompting bulldozers and scoops to tear up the farm as the project advances and land is prepared for extraction.
John J. Everhard of Oneida requests the return of his wheelbarrow after his wife loaded her belongings into it and left him for the eleventh time, asking the Press Gazette to publish the plea.
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