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Newspaper
Bridgetown Advocate
Location
Bridgetown, Western Australia, Australia
Date
Dec 05, 1947
Page
8
A high speed photo graphic device captured an Australian star performing a somersault in two phases scheduled at 1/10000 of a second. The images show her legs passing through a loop while midair.
Australian honey will supply about half the ingredients for a revived English drink. A mill in Gulval, Penzance, renamed The Mead House, plans big scale production of mead aimed at profits and empire prestige with up to 60,000 bottles yearly once fermentation and aging stages complete.
The article outlines a chain letter that starts with £1 and a £1 return as participants pass 10 shillings down a line. Purchasers copy the letter, add themselves at the bottom, and sell two copies for 10 shillings each to recoup the outlay. Readers report early success with many sending 10 shillings.
In Marksville Louisiana hundreds of small fish reportedly fell from the sky during a poultryless Thursday. Local witnesses describe a strange, unseasonal meteorological occurrence as the market area swarms with damp air and curious onlookers.
An advertisement touts ManZan antiseptic balm to relieve pain and distress from hemorrhoids. It claims the medicated applicator delivers soothing medicine directly to the affected area and urges readers to ask their chemist for a tube today.
A new pestle like heater called a heating stirrer uses a cartridge end to emit fumeless heat. Immersed in liquid it can boil a cup of water. Price for six charges is three dollars.
Betty Anthony, sought for 20 months, was located by police in Cleveland and arrested after her ex-husband, missing from the scene, was traced. Authorities say she was personally hauled in by officers.
Sir Alexander Hay Seton tenth baronet and heritable armor bearer to the Royal body stood a mile from Westminster Abbey as an Official Receiver acted in Careyst West London. He owed between ten and twenty thousand pounds with nil assets and vowed to pay in full. He had once served at the coronation and lost a post worth over a pound a year by 1939. He had not proven his hereditary title due to cost of one thousand pounds, and his father’s spending on proving a peerage left little for heirs.
The U S Forestry Service reports a bear broke into a cabin near Missoula Montana and stole a hunting knife an axe and a box of cartridges. No injuries reported. Local authorities warn residents to secure food and garbage to deter wildlife.
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