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Newspaper
Bridgetown Advocate
Location
Bridgetown, Western Australia, Australia
Date
Feb 20, 1948
Page
6
Industry eyes commercial atoms for cheaper processes and longer lasting machinery. Prices cited include carbon at 50 dollars per 28,000ths of an ounce and iodine at one dollar ten cents per tenth of a teaspoon. Over 200 firms placed about 1000 orders in six months with no losses.
Broughton parish council warned Sunday opening at the Whyte Meville Arms would disrupt village peace and church times. Innkeeper Arthur Ackerman won a 7 day licence after proving the pub would open after services because he serves as church organist and must finish duties.
Discussion on pickle supplies and production pressures from a 1930s Business Week issue notes pickle packers having packed more than before but warns the current season may exhaust stock before growers can harvest and process.
Frank Fayren, noted for his role in The Lost Week-End, is cast as a gangland trigger man in Paramount's Hazard. Paulette Goddard and Macdonald Carey star, while Rita Hayworth rumors are denied by Victor Mature. Rory Flynn, six months, quarantined with chicken pox during his parents’ Jamaica vacation.
Amendments to the Stock Act in Tasmania make branding of sheep optional across the state. Prohibitions cover tar pitch and paint, and brands must be metal not exceeding 4 by 3 inches in size and at most three sixteenths of an inch in diameter. The move follows campaigns by the Australian Wool Board and other bodies to reduce branding hazards amid protests from wool goods makers in Australia Britain and France.
A collection of trivia prompts asks about Roman numerals MLXVI and the number six. WWI archer and WW2 flak. the rations of bull meat. the guillotine figures Danton Robespierre or Madame Roland. alpha and omega. Arthurian sword names. port versus bow aboard. river continents. a jumbled famous line. Ides and Nones origin among ancient peoples.
An OCR fragment lists multiple regional newspapers across the Wheat Belt and surrounding towns including Coolgardie Miner Avon Argus North Eastero Coarter Preston Mall Dowertn Guardian Goomalling Gazette Harvey Waroona Mail Bactero Recordert Dampier Derslad Manjimup Mail Midlands Advocate Mullens Mall WSorseman-Eaperance News York Chronicle Pemberton Post South Western Advertiser Southern Crome News Toodyay Herald Wongan Ballido Badge wheat belt Trumne Deonore News Northam Nowa and notes ISSUE OF FEB 20.
While Henry Wallace served as US Secretary of Commerce he and associates visited Lincoln Memorial Park to practice boomerang throwing. An elderly man offered a finely crafted boomerang made of polished ukhogany, asking for Wallace to test it.
A mounted wall boomerang shattered after being hurled toward the Lincoln Memorial. An elderly man gathered the fragments and fled. The next day the FBI searched for the rare Australian artifact missing from the Smithsonian Institution.
Steam locomotives are praised as the most efficient power units, cheapest to build and maintain, with diesel and electric contrasts noted. The LNER in England set a one mile speed record at 126 mph, while the Pennsylvania Railroad reportedly pulled 1000 tons of passenger cars for 72 consecutive miles at 102 mph.
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