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Newspaper
Bridgetown Advocate
Location
Bridgetown, Western Australia, Australia
Date
Jun 17, 1948
Page
9
A Houston grand jury found that 200000 pounds of horse meat were sold weekly as beefsteaks in Texas. The racket sourced meat from Louisiana and abroad, with sellers profiting by high markups. A Houston restaurant owner complained of paying for filet mignon that came from a stallion.
The Vancouver Daily Province reports British Columbia administers Canada's strictest driving test. In early 1967, about 6000 new applicants visited the chief examiner's Vancouver office. over 1000 failed. The test lasts up to two hours with written, oral, eyesight, reaction, and hearing components. Chief Officer Hamilton says women drivers rate with men, and nervous drivers may be more reliable than overconfident ones.
Borges Machon, 55, of Salins Jura, kept 200000 francs in a hollow leg used as a portable bank. He woke to find his spare limb still by the bed while the wooden leg bank was broken and missing the money.
James Mason may join Metro projects including a Robinson Crusoe film with David Rose claiming Mason is contracted to Hollywood. A Jolson Story sequel is prepped while Al Jolson, turning 60, calls the project an epitaph. Phil Baker accepts arrest after drunken driving, celebrating 35 years in show business. Gene Tierney's replacement and Oscar Preminger’s London talent hunt for The Fan surface. Errol Flynn feted. Tack Earl's yacht Zaca docked in Kingston for Panama voyage. Vera Gordon dies after long illness at Beverly Hills home. Metro’s Lion Lee and circus escape scare Pennsylvania mountains before capture.
A fragmented notice outlines a cough remedy claiming quick relief for adults and children. It mentions Gaetan 406 and a remedial plan with suggested dosages and benefits, though details are garbled.
20 year old Andre Demaurizi of Nice France says his ugliness drove him to murder his former sweetheart Paulette Neri. He followed her to a cafe where he pressed grenades to her chest triggering an explosion that killed Paulette and another person and cost him his left arm. He then stabbed himself and later attempted suicide in prison twice.
In Brighton England 7600keeper Peter Gibbs banged his head on a metal post and fell into a monkey cage waking to find a monkey seated on his chest and twisting its red moustache in triumph.
Britain begins a vast peanut cultivation project in Tanganyika and beyond to feed fat-starved Britain. The plan relies on a new railhead link from Konya to Dar es Salaam and extensive orders for Bedford trucks and Fordson tractors to clear roads and move crops 300 miles to the railhead. The scheme uses war surplus machinery from Europe Egypt Kenya and Australia as a mechanised push to produce peanut oil for cooking fat and salad oil.
Fragmentary OCR from a regional page features a jumble of names and places including publishers editors and towns. The readable bits hint at a newswire style notice or briefs with no clear event or outcome.
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