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Newspaper
Bridgetown Advocate
Location
Bridgetown, Western Australia, Australia
Date
May 23, 1940
Page
2
A garbled OCR page of light wit and quips from Town Topics and other columns. Jumbled jokes touch on travel plans, accidents, fashion, math, and a pennyless Scot, with brief exchanges and wordplay across various items.
Fremantle Trotting Club stages a Saturday night meeting at Richmond Park with well balanced fields led by Black Yamma Owyhee Sheik Fay Winwood and Mise Silver. Notable rivals include Jack Vaunier Overhee Sheik Pleasant Boy Don Sebastian Gald Vale Liafarce and Wrecker as the program features the Federal Handicap and Charity and Patriot Handicaps across a mile and furlongs plus two longer events on the card.
A medical officer's report from a battalion on the Western Front notes Private X- Fserptinn incapacitated while in reserve. The entry, marked from Paris, references a period of twig days and confirms service status.
An old printed notice markets vitality pills and tonics for men. It touts a full course and energy restoration products like Juvogen. Prices are shown in shillings and pence, with various offerings and suppliers listed.
Belmont Park Race Club issues an attractive programme for a Saturday meeting. The feature hurdle race runs one mile and five furlongs with strong entries in other events. The card includes races named for high purses and notable entrants such as MURUCE ACE and Charming Wave among others. Officials emphasize promising entrants and a well balanced programme across the day.
Article outlines France's total war effort stressing sacrifice across population and economy. It cites heavy levies on profits, rising taxation, longer work hours, and shifts to female labor to boost production for national defense. It notes the National Solidarity Fund rewards dependents of mobilized workers and surveys unemployment as part of wartime planning.
A special statement by the Minister of Food Lord Woolton declares Britain has ample food for emergencies with large weekly contracts from Canada and agreements with Eire and Northern Ireland. Australia and New Zealand supplies rise for butter cheese and bacon while France mobilises workers, extending the forty hour week and increasing female labour participation to support national production.
The Minister for Aw Dr J V Fairbairn reports a revised intake schedule for air crews. By year end about 200 pilots and 18000 air observers and wireless air qunners will be called up for training. The plan aims to absorb reserve personnel and aligns with partner schools to expand training for navigation focused subjects. Three elementary aging training schools are scheduled to open before the end of August.
A fragmentary dialogue notes distress in the Gabble-Gabble household with Mrs Gabble-Gabble in trouble and her husband losing his hearing. The overheard exchange carries news of a domestic mishap and public concern amid strained voices and irate reactions.
A public questions session at the Presbyterian Assembly featured Major-General Burra urging nations to internalize just laws and join a global community. He favored world courts and a form of world force to enforce compliance, while warning against disarmament or exclusive diplomacy.
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