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Newspaper
Bridgetown Advocate
Location
Bridgetown, Western Australia, Australia
Date
Mar 31, 1949
Page
9
The Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co introduces a rear engine Model G tractor with front mounted implements designed for narrow row crops. Goodyear tyres provide maximum traction and wheel treads adjust for spacing, with five minute tool changes to meet commercial vegetable, floriculture, and nursery demands.
The text describes Balmain and Roger Model designs with white kid gloves and green piping, Dior and Rochas floral accents, followed by details of a large factory at Bury St. Edmunds serving Eastern Counties farmers. It processed 2900 farmers crops totaling 75 000 lorry loads and 5000 railway trucks, on 44 000 acres with sugar content 17.39. The plant, costing about £300 thousand, will be extended over three years, employing 700 workers during peak season and a weekly wage bill over £5 000, producing by products like dried cattle feed.
JUST GOES SYDNEY McCubbin a 53 year old Melbourne inventor has devised a method to propel a ship by wave motion without sails or engines He built two model ships with twin diverging submerged arms and hinged horizontal paddles that ride swell driven by hull contouring The idea came from studying natural propulsion in insects birds and animals
Gordon Schwitzer of Brantford Ontario testified in his wife’s bigamy trial saying he thought her first husband was merely a boyfriend who did not want him around.
In Detroit a divorce was granted to Ernest Evans after he testified that his first wife sat on him during ceremonies marking a US production milestone since 1896 for motor vehicles. The event occurred amid a pro-ceremony context in Cardiff Wales.
Film news reports a booming production slate with 33 pictures in progress across studios, while stars report changes in London and Hollywood. Yvonne de Carlo seeks relief for a neck strain tied to her height, and Patricia Neal and Ronald Reagan team for The New Heart before returning to New York.
English Tories circulate an appeal to young canvassers to avoid wearing smart clothes during by elections. A copy appeared on a meeting hall notice board used by young Conservatives and the Labor League of Youth. A Labor party member quipped that lacking policy one could borrow fashion.
A Sydney reporter asked hotel bar drinkers about mixing raw eggs with beer. American poultry farmers push hotels to offer egg beer claiming health and cost benefits. Some patrons would try it, many would not, with mixed reactions and concern over taste and safety.
Bill Odom's Honolulu to New York nonstop flight demonstrated that petrol expands with heat and contracts with cold. By filling with chilled petrol, he gained 12 extra gallons, landing with near equal quantity. Experts propose selling gas by weight at a fixed temperature to ensure constant value.
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