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Bridgetown Advocate

Location

Bridgetown, Western Australia, Australia

Date

Mar 24, 1944

Page

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Trotting Topics Silver Emblem's Return to Form

The article reviews Silver Emblem's recent strong showings and outlines upcoming Easter Trotting Cup events with divisions and prize money. It notes past performances, horses to watch including Alamein Libyan Lady Rohda Lou Arabian Lass Broad Again Red Brick and General Mavista, and expectations for breeders' company races and other sections of the program.

Silver Emblem Broad Hilton Park Rohda Lou

Racing in New Guinea and New South Wales Compare Horses

A report from New Guinea describes Jap horses raced by diggers with times favoring brass-fed horses from New South Wales. Jagger bookmakers offered strong odds, tote wagers circulated, and riders faced light weigh requirements. Races covered four furlongs with about six starters per event.

Jack Ritchie Alf New South Wales Wee

Racecourse Logic And The Tale Of A Tight Afternoon

A horse race enthusiast says he broke even at the track, while a woman laments the near miss of a horse she backed, reflecting gambler’s nerve and caution. Maurice Hall cartoon in Punch satirizes betting folly.

EPA Post Maurice Hall

The Substitute Insults Quote from Kipling Cable

A brief note recalls a Kipling exchange with an editor who vetoed whisky in a story. He suggested a substitute title or line, and Kipling replied with a witty alternative referencing Merlin and Baby Food.

Kipling Merlin

Royal Air Force first 3,000-ton bomb load in raid

A wartime roundup notes the RAF delivering a 3,000-ton bomb load in a single German raid, as Allied forces push toward Cassino in Italy and Japanese communications in Burma feel the pressure from parachute troops. It also covers a royal Navy children’s party aboard a ship and rationing shifts in Australia with new dual books and June 3 expiry.

Royal Air Force Germany Wens Australia

Elizabeth Meyer Wins North Island Chess Title in Australasian Record

Dr Elizabeth Meyer of Auckland M L tops a North Island tournament with eight wins and three draws from eleven, finishing two points ahead of the favored male challenger. Teammates Miss A R Hollis and Mrs T G Short also played, but trailed. Meyer earns the right to compete for the ALL showbine, becoming the first woman to qualify in this history.

Elizabeth Meyer Auckland M.L North Island A. R Hollis T. G. Short Elizabeth Aie

Suitor's Bold Reply in Canoe Question Creates Moment

A suitor in a canoe with his fiancee and her mother is asked whom he would save if the craft tipped. He answers promptly that he would save the mother and die with the fiancée, a remark highlighted in Paul Poponoe's "Marriage Before and After."

Paul Poponoe

America aided Russia in historic lend-lease shipments

United States Foreign Economic Administrator T. Crowley said America shipped 438 million dollars in goods to the Soviet Union last November, the largest monthly total in lend-lease history. Since the program began, exports to Russia reach 3.89 billion dollars, dominated by weapons and vehicles. over 7,400 planes and thousands of tanks trucks jeeps and other military gear have been sent. food aid has also helped the Red Army with millions of tons delivered through November 1943 including 350 thousand tons of wheat and flour and 500 thousand tons of edible fats.

America Russia Washington Leo, T. Crowley United States Soviet Union U.S Red Army Ukraine

March Calendar of Notable Births and Events

Calendar of events for March lists deaths births and key historic moments from various years. Notable entries include de Lamartine Smetana Bell Pulaski Holmes Mazzini Roosevelt Lend-Lease Act and Austrian occupation along with several 18th and 19th century births.

Alphonse de Lamartine Luftwaffe Saar Germany Bismarck Sea Bedrich Smetana Asst Piasist Carl Schurz Alexander Graham Bell Casimir Pulaski Thomas Jefferson Sir William Beveridge Reichstag Michelan Beard Thomas ¢i Masaryk Rhineland Oliver Wendell Holmes U.S. Supreme Court Mulotov Guiseppe Mazzini Hitler Austria Roosevelt Schiller William Joseph Priestly Bert Einstein Andrew Jackson

Quote by Nietzsche on German culture and crime

A provocative line asserts that every major crime against culture for four centuries rests in the German conscience. This compact remark underscores a critical stance on German cultural responsibility and historical culpability.

Nietzsche

Classified Ads Prompt Teaches Readers to Seek What They Need

A long OCR style notice urges readers to study display advertisements in twenty regional papers to find desired items and services. It invites readers to place personal sales in the Readers Market Place, detailing how to describe items for sale and pricing. The list of newspapers appears as examples.

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