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Newspaper
Bridgetown Advocate
Location
Bridgetown, Western Australia, Australia
Date
Dec 24, 1947
Page
7
Junior Dantel Watson, escaped prisoner, returns to Raleigh North Carolina after a year away explains he joined the Army and believes prison was the better option.
Alex Best of Burra South Australia drove along the Spalding Booboorowle road last week when a hare darted from the grass. The hare ran beside the car for ten miles at 25 mph before it began to stagger and then fell dead, leaving Best astonished by the unlikely chase.
Hundreds of volunteers, including honeymoon couples, will be isolated in pairs at Harvard Hospital on Salisbury Plain for ten days to aid a long running study of the common cold. Inoculations, code named by researchers, are given on day four with meals and visits carefully controlled. Volunteers receive pay and travel expenses, while findings show the virus is extremely small and that only about a quarter of inoculations succeed.
Forest Id., Hurst ville, NSW poultry breeder Mr. E Merryfull fits his fowls with metal spectacles imported from the United States. The eyeglasses clip to beaks, softening aggression and bringing calm to the fowlyard as the Australorp named ankle behaves quietly after wearing them. American farms widely use similar chook spectacles.
Atomic energy toys captivate American shoppers with an elaborate kit featuring uranium ore samples a radioactive screen and a splat hariscope promising a novelty science gift for many children this Christmas season.
The article notes stores offering gift packaging and mailing to Santa Claus Indiana so items arrive with a festive Santa postmark. It mentions chemicals and a book on atomic energy describing cyclotrons and the atom bomb, highlighting future atomic energy.
A Sydney mother with limited funds plans a January gift for her seven year old daughter. On Christmas Day the girl will receive a large doll, a wish her street would envy, though she remains unaware of her mother’s long delayed effort.
In Hunan province, China, 6000 skulls lie skull-to-skull on a hillside as a stark memorial. Four years earlier Japanese forces killed the bearers of the bones, with the Chinese government stacking the remains to teach later generations the cost of war.
Since January a mother has paid weekly toyman Alf Gilbert of Liverpool Street. The doll costs £2 2s, with a 3d discount offered. Alf plans to play Father Xmas, promising a large stocking of toys when the final instalment is paid in December.
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