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Newspaper
Bridgetown Advocate
Location
Bridgetown, Western Australia, Australia
Date
Jul 29, 1948
Page
12
The Chinese American Yun Gee proposes a mile wide 30 mile high aluminium lunar tunnel to send warm air from Earth and reach the moon at 1000 mph. He also aims to enable monkeys to speak like humans using similar techniques and says blueprints have been stolen thrice.
Dr. Jason J. Nassau and Dr. G. B. Van Alboda of Swasey Observatory report at a joint meeting that a wide range infrared sensitive telescope camera and new prism revealed thousands of stars unseen by earlier equipment. Among them two are rare giant M stars and one may be a distant wanderer between the Milky Way and its neighbor.
The article explains red giants as cool red stars with surface temps near 3000 C, much cooler than the sun’s 6000 C. It notes two classes giants and super-giants with giants spanning about 80 million miles in diameter while super-giants reach many billions of miles, and absurdly large enough to contain planets like Mercury within.
Astronomers note super giants may engulf the sun and seven planets up to Uranus in current orbits. Most red and super giants remain unseen in our galaxy due to infrared light. Antares and Betelgeuse are the best known suner-giants.
Acting Under-Secretary for Agriculture announces areas including Yilgarn, Erredin, Narembeen, Lake Grace and Phillips River districts east of the rabbit-proof fence where sheep dipping is compulsory. Sheep-owners must dip annually and complete within three months of shearing not later than March 31. declarations must be filed with the Chief Inspector of Stock within 14 days of dipping.
Two men drinking and playing in a Milan pub bet that the loser must swallow 65 live frogs. The winner produced the frogs and the loser complied, later reporting croaking inside. After urging him to drink more, he passed out and was hospitalized in no serious condition.
In West Carrollton Ohio hecklers disrupted a fire scene prompting Fire Captain Afuldish to leap on his hat and resign his post. The resignation follows a confrontation that drew public attention and scrutiny from local officials.
Button Mouth Albert Bates aged seven died in Alcatraz serving a life term for the 1933 kidnapping of Oklahoma oilman Charles Urschel. He never disclosed where he hid the ransom money of 100000 dollars.
A set of ten trivia questions covers capitals, commonalities among spices, geography, fairy tale origins, classical composers, the Boston Tea Party, anatomy, historical figures, literary terms, and a jail term. The garbled trailing text appears to be OCR noise unrelated to the questions.
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