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Newspaper
Bridgetown Advocate
Location
Bridgetown, Western Australia, Australia
Date
Oct 06, 1949
Page
9
A garbled list of quiz prompts covers topics from Fauvism to kanji etymology including painting music and poetry questions about lyddite minks umbrellas Dickens Gamp and a rickshaw geographic puzzle.
Description proclaims New Riverina Express as Australia’s most modern with air conditioning fluorescent lighting public address system and buffet dining car. It notes seating capacity power for cooking and lighting and six saloon cars with luggage racks and turnover seating for 212 passengers.
U S scientists report the sweet potato yam offers a potential inexpensive source of cortisone. Dr Russell Marker found a yam plant contains botogenin that converts to cortisone, with the tropical dioscorea species proving best for abundance and proximity. Cortisone battles arthritis and may aid rheumatic fever gout and mental illness, though long term effects remain unknown.
In Houston Texas Irish passions rose after a vandal dyed the Shamrock Hotel pool water orange. The act cost millionaire Glen McCarthy about 70 from a rush job that filled roughly 100000 gallons.
In Rochester Minnesota a man wearing a surgeon gown visited a hospital room he told a patient to roll over and stole 374 dollars from the patient’s wallet while claiming the back "looks OK to me" after the act.
A quote depicts a secretary asked to draft a confidential letter for an unseen recipient. The exchange highlights a tense moment over secrecy and protocol in an office setting.
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