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Newspaper
Bridgetown Advocate
Location
Bridgetown, Western Australia, Australia
Date
Aug 29, 1941
Page
4
A political column criticizes equal pay for equal work arguing for unit basis wages and a National Family Fund to support dependents. It links wage policy to living standards, tariff protection, and warns against party-driven democracy evolving toward fascist-like tactics.
Fragmentary wartime note describes Tobruk siege mindset with droll defiance about surrender and white rag signaling. Mentions Tet and a British megaphone voice, plus casual scorn for threats and hunger. Contains garbled quotes and incomplete recollections.
A Perth reader claims a gifted second sight and clairvoyance reveal the afterlife. In a letter to the editor a spirit-clergyman explains rebirth, the soul’s journey after death, and a man named Jones observing a library of life records and moral accounting.
A group in Australia discusses forming a League of Free Peoples to promote the Golden Rule and brotherhood across creeds and colors. The plan favors informal monthly meetings over formal organization and seeks to discuss postwar peace without party politics while embracing universal human fraternity.
Sydney girls learn basic combat and marksmanship using seized enemy weapons. The Water Board training group, unofficially based at the Small Arms Club, praises the female members for skill equal to or surpassing men. Vera Johnson assists Air Force men in practice, noted for handling a heavy revolver. The club operates under strict permit rules, with ranges on the Sewerage Board building site and revolvers retained from enemy seizures.
Doctors support war effort amid charges against medical staff. The piece notes medical involvement in wartime efforts, detailing charges and defense, with names and affiliations obscured by OCR errors.
A fragmented account recalls a BBC broadcast incident involving P G Wodehouse and figures like Cassandra. The piece discusses war, censorship, and public reaction as fears of a broader conflict rise amid critical remarks about British figures and media.
A wandering narrator guides James and companions through a stark landscape marked by clouds and ruins. The journey tests selfish impulses as the group encounters desolation, moral judgment, and a call to unity with a final plea for repentance and earthly duty.
A fragment from a Roberson circle transcript quotes Grimaldi and Zara discussing ether as a substance akin to earth. They claim ancient Egyptian priests tapped spirit power, that all beings share one Spirit, and that matter and ether blend across worlds.
Eyewitnesses recount a deadly disaster at Lives Suh Ave where a building collapsed under falling masonry. Dozens lie dead or dying amid twisted concrete as responders work through wreckage. a witness recalls a ghastly cage of hain and the horrifying scene.
The committee met to fix a price framework for 1942 tobacco involving growers and manufacturers. Officials indicate a plan to purchase all surplus leaf, with estimates of rising costs and supply expectations for the coming season.
Nancy Daly, a fearless 11 year old diver from Sydney, has been diving since age four as a hobby. She swims in heavy gear including helmet and thick boots, facing sharks with calm, reporting she has dived five times with recent Ballina encounters.
In Sydney a woman sparked a four and a half day manhunt by sixty tax office employees who searched through fifty thousand returns for a missing five pound note. The incident ends with a daughter’s apologetic letter and the mother benignly overlooked.
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