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Newspaper
Bridgetown Advocate
Location
Bridgetown, Western Australia, Australia
Date
Jun 30, 1949
Page
13
A historical tale recounts a fire demon causing a church miscue with a drenched priest saved by a choirboy. It follows the London imp lighting a businessman's spats and a Melbourne rubber plant fire sparked by a golf‑dressed worker whose anti static shoes failed to ground charges.
Victorian Country Fire Authority chief rural officer Mr. A Daw cautions that heavy rainfall followed by lush growth raises fire hazards unseen before. A Melbourne conference of regional officers will boost fire prevention with new machinery and expanded instruction schools before summer.
Ventriloquist James Johnson faced trial for deserting his wife. The judge allegedly told him to choose between his wife and the puppet. He reportedly chose the dummy, a moment that drew attention during the proceedings.
A lady and her four year old child seek accommodation in country guest house or farm at the end of August. Written notice from Country Newspapers, 17 James Street, Perth.
At the American Museum of Natural History a frozen meat exhibit displays a musk ox carcase a mammoth head and foreleg and other ancient animal parts exhumed from Alaska. The samples are dated 15 000 years minimum possibly up to 400 000 years and were transported on dry ice to New York drawing crowds and jokes from visitors.
In Northern Rhodesia a lion named Leo chased a native into a Draken Hill bush scene. The native slept on a tree perch and woke to find Leo under the same tree, but the lion did not attack and fled. In California, Mrs Vincent Stewart reported six stolen shoes were returned the next day, polished.
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