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Bridgetown Advocate in Bridgetown, Western Australia

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Bridgetown Advocate

Location

Bridgetown, Western Australia, Australia

Date

Oct 13, 1949

Page

12

Child asks meaning of sorry in tense mother chat

A youngster questions his mother's use of the word sorry in a tense exchange. The fragment hints at emotional distance and a family moment.

Laughs and Larks in a String of Odd Encounters

A miscellany of humorous vignettes opens with a millionaire altering a special train by adding engines to avoid traveling backward. Pauline the nurse halts a driverless car by grabbing the brake, while a suburb resident watches workmen and a boastful foreman claims leadership. Will Rogers attends a Park-Avenir event in cowboy clothes, and a boy asks his father the meaning of identity after a schoolyard ribbing. Others include William Wrigley’s airline quip, Calabash on a call to Johnson and Johnson lawyers, and a tightrope walker teased about fear versus corns.

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