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Newspaper
Bridgetown Advocate
Location
Bridgetown, Western Australia, Australia
Date
Dec 12, 1941
Page
4
A fragmented uncleared excerpt reflects a farmer’s view of farming as a gamble and critiques urban life in New York. The writer contrasts rural hardships with crowded city conditions, noting subway chaos and overbuilt centers, while suggesting industry move toward affordable living and rural opportunity.
Young stock show ringworm especially after winter with white sloughs on the shins. Clean afflicted areas with soap and warm water, apply ointments and dressings, repeat daily for several days, and disinfect housing. Separate and whitewash sheds, burn bedding, and avoid widespread mercurial use on large areas.
A temperance reformer accuses a man of continual intoxication and predicts delirium tremens as he learns a girl has accepted his marriage proposal. The hopeless suitor responds that the woman he will wed is a snake charmer.
J egotr Goodman born in Feretown reflects on his two faces as performer. He reveals a Jekyll and Hyde split between concert aims and cinema crowd appeal. Critics praise his artistry while he seeks a bread and butter life in music away from commercial demands.
A heated meeting at Bungaree Hall over market control erupted with rowdy speeches by potato growers and miners. Police intervened after threats and heckling, the chairman bowing out as officers warned the crowd and orderly conduct returned.
Waverley Allen Glenn, carrier and dealer, faced theft charges in the Perth Criminal Court for taking six of Walter Liddielow’s sheep. Glenn claimed the six were to be replaced with his own, but Liddielow identified his branded sheep in a stranger paddock. Justice Wolff heard the jury convict Glenn despite a mercy recommendation for lax business methods. Glenn awaits sentence while his wife, described as a tall blonde woman, remained in court.
An ALF corporal in the Middle East, eight months in the desert with seven in action, writes to his mother about fear and courage. He denies fearless men and says true bravery comes from willpower to overcome fear. He notes fear grows with safety and distance from the front.
A Narooma resident reports a green painted seagull that has attracted local curiosity and mockery. The tame birds cluster near the coast as passengers share humorous tales of the painted gull and its striking green coat and red feet.
Witnesses for the Society for the Protection of Cruelty to Animals described six deer at Midland Junction abattoirs as starved before slaughter while the butcher claimed they were fed. The case raised whether two days of starvation before death is justifiable and contrasted human and animal treatment in the Perth City Court.
A fragment shows a visitor night remark on a hotel advertisement claiming excellence. The line parodies local promotion by noting the badge of being the “best hotel in town” and implies skepticism about advertising claims. The incomplete text suggests a longer anecdote about truth in ads.
Police halted a fatal incident at the Two-Up Schoolroom above Milligan Car Sales Ltd when Keith Johnson a dentist attempted a vigilante exit after a night in the famed venue. Officers led by Constable Slater confronted a crowd as they fled, with suspects scrambling to escape through a manhole and the glass front of the rear storey.
A young dentist Keith Johnson fell thirty feet through a rear fanlight after escaping a collapsing roof scene. He landed on a car and died three days later in Perth Hospital. Police investigations concluded the injuries came from the fall through the glass fanlight.
A fragmentary reminiscence from Urville Weight recounts a rebuke for silence and a quip about a talking parrot, reflecting jagged dialogue and a clash over assertiveness. The garbled text hints at a Professor Langley attribution and a jab about being taciturn.
An agricultural guide describes fattening surplus cockerels for sale, stressing housing, feeding, and timing. It covers best age for sale at four to five months, use of night ark and free range systems, and a two to three meal daily plan with fattening mash to achieve good weight and market value.
The Ayrshire cow shipped from Scotland decades ago to Australia produced record milk yields. At eighteen she gave 15 595 pounds of milk and 474.38 pounds fat to become Sydney Royal Show champion two years after purchase. Her daughter Victoria’s calf and other descendants held Australian milk records while Victoria’s son Glengowan Victor carried on the lineage.
A motion in the House of Commons, tabled by A. P. Herbert, urges applying Defence Regulation 18AA to group leader Frank Avchman. The regulation empowers the government to dissolve organisations tied to sympathisers with powers Britain is at war with.
Reports describe Libyan desert winds burying Tobruk graves under sand. Volunteers built a barrier using disused petrol tins to halt erosion and reveal toppled memorials. After the war crews plan cement and tile markers atop the graves.
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