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Newspaper
Bridgetown Advocate
Location
Bridgetown, Western Australia, Australia
Date
Jul 21, 1944
Page
2
Goer clients urged to obtain charity tickets from CHAS. WATSON & CO at 7 Barrack Street Perth. The firm claims to have sold the most prizes in Western Australia in recent sweeps and contests.
The New Zealand champion Kindergarten, set to be seven next month, again carries top weight in both Caulfield and Melbourne Cup races. Dark Felt follows with strong form from last year, while Lawrence, Counsel, Claudette, and Derby winner Precept also figure prominently among contenders. Weight trends and past performances shape early odds as horses like Amana Saint Warden Flight and Simmering vie for double Cup glory.
A historical American propaganda notice mocks modern complaints by tracing a long arc of absent luxuries from sugar to electricity across centuries. It argues people endured far more hardship in earlier eras and questions present grievances.
The tourney ledger lists Duggan with 11 wins leading ahead of F. Moore also on 11. Tulloh and Mullen have six wins each, followed by Brown Myers Morley Cox and Walkerdensy with six to eight victories. Seahy Corry Ingram Wood also claim multiple wins, while Thatcher Lawler Wright tally single wins.
Kersley leads with 17 wins including a dead heat and 9 seconds in a detailed trotting record. Other top performers include C. J. Clarke with 9 wins and 10 seconds, PF Smith with 0 wins, A J Hough with 7 wins, 6 seconds and 15 thirds, and many additional placements across multiple drivers and horses. The tabulated results show numerous entries such as Thoms, Kerse ley, Williams, and Kelly among others with varying win counts and placings.
Interest on accounts at Commonwealth Savings Bank was aided on June. Regulations require pass-books be presented at least once a year for visit and lodgment. depositors whose books have not been presented since June 8 are urged to lodge them at the first opportunity. Receipts will be issued for pass books lodged at points other than the ledger brand.
A wartime Australian column discusses Red Army advances toward Prussia, American actions near Stipan, and German and Japanese preparations. It also covers Western Australia’s grant for experimental charcoal iron production, potential policy shifts in butter rations, and hopes for a new local heavy industry. The piece touches Australian book demand, wartime publishing prospects, and Vilna's contested postwar fate between Poland, Lithuania, and Russia.
A visual gauge by the Sheffield Corporation of Dayton Ohio can measure a human hair split into 2000 parts. It gauges diameters less than 1,500,000 of an inch and shows how much metal expands with a touch of heat.
Dr. LA Vysochina of Moscow reports use of food imitation cocoa spaghetti porridge and crackers made from live animal blood at Tagan Hospital. Early experiments with cows showed improved milk production and weight gain.
A Harvard Medical School pediatrist Professor James L Gamble says glucose can partly substitute for water to prevent death from thirst among castaways aviators and sailors at sea. The finding highlights sugar as an emergency fluid source in survival situations.
A revolving windshield called clear view screen is now used on Allied cargo and naval ships. A round glass segment spins in the captain’s window via motor to spray sea spray snow and ice away by centrifugal force.
Jets free. Apply Christadelphiany 49 Stadest, Bayswater.
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