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Newspaper
Bridgetown Advocate
Location
Bridgetown, Western Australia, Australia
Date
Jan 30, 1948
Page
8
A playful Q&A prompts memory of sports terms and histories. It asks about deuce scores in tennis, guard and parry in fencing, the picador role in bullfighting, the origin name of badminton, Louis Schmeling fight outcome, lacrosse origin, boxing weights, racehorse age calculation, and card suit symbolism, with a jumble of extra garbled text surrounding.
In the last three months the Australian Wool Board sent 112 films to organisations across all States and some overseas destinations. Demand exceeds also the sheep diseases and husbandry films with fashion and fabric films. With state agriculture help, screenings in wool growing centres have reached about 300 venues, drawing around 20 000 viewers, while the Film Unit travelled about 30 000 miles.
A London event hosted a cocktail contest titled Wheel Em In with entrants from multiple nations. Chicago contributed Cosmic Bomb while another entrant presented Philip and Elizabeth. Notable participants include Friegas Bowen Bob Boucher from Tel Aviv and Aberdeen’s 16 year old George Walker.
The article notes American pride in inventing cocktails and lists the Old Fashioned, Martini, Manhattan, and White Lady as enduring favorites. It mentions about 10,000 recipes in Bartenders' Guild registers and states these three remain essential to memorize for any skilled barman.
Mrs. Ethel E. Watermeyer of Harrisburg Pennsylvania seeks divorce claiming her husband and his relatives ran up expenses on three horses by purchasing fancy bridles while forcing her and the children to wear underwear sewn from muslin feed bags.
Readers are advised on using classified sections to describe needs and assets. The piece lists how buyers and sellers connect through ads and mentions several regional papers where such notices appear, emphasizing practical details and mutual benefit.
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