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Bridgetown Advocate

Location

Bridgetown, Western Australia, Australia

Date

Nov 07, 1947

Page

9

World Famous Blind Authoress Helen Keller To Visit Australia

Aged 63 64 year old Helen Keller renowned blind and deaf author will visit Australia next year to honor a pledge to the Royal Sydney Industrial Blind Institution. Keller born in Tuscumbia Alabama in 1880 rose from illness childhood to global fame writing and lecturing across the United States and abroad. She studied with Anne Sullivan at Radcliffe College and learned to read write and speak through touch. Keller later toured internationally and supported blind charities while living in Westport Connecticut.

Mark Twain Napoleon Helen Keller Australia H. W. Thompson Royal Sydney Industrial Blind Institution She Tuscumbia Alabama Helen Gence Radcliffe College Anne Sullivan States Land Canada Scotland Jugoslavia Japan Korea Manchukuo Byer American Foundation For the Blind Miss Keller Westport Connecticut

Smallest Australian diesel motor built for models

Mr. W. J. Smith a 70 year old engineer of Forest road Hurstville NSW claims to have built Australia’s smallest diesel motor. The matchbox sized engine weighs 1.5 ounces with a cylinder under a quarter inch and a piston stroke of 1/16 inch. It can drive a model aeroplane at 70 mph. Smith has 56 years of model engineering experience and has just finished an 8 inch gauge car engine and is now crafting an inch scale C 38 railway engine weighing over 300 pounds when completed.

W. J. Smith Forestroad Hurstville Nsw Australia Smith

Nervy and Run-Down After Reaching Middle Age

A damaged advertorial promotes Dr Williams Pink Pills to ease nerves and fatigue in middle age. It claims the medicine enriches blood, improves sleep, and restores energy, promising relief from exhaustion and low spirits.

Williame Rein “Weer Sheniete Ann

Twin births and surgeries headline regional notes

In Seattle two forum twins suffered pains and had appendixes removed. Tulsa reports a pair of Jordan twins visiting hospital for birth of twins. Weymouth Massachusetts records Mrs Walsh delivering twins for the third time in under two years.

Seattle Forum Tulsa Jordan Weymouth Massachusetts John J. Walsh

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