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Newspaper
Bridgetown Advocate
Location
Bridgetown, Western Australia, Australia
Date
Oct 13, 1949
Page
9
Ernard Silver, proprietor of the Silver Burglary Prevention and Security Service in London, was jailed for fifteen months after being found to have received stolen goods. The case highlights enforcement against fencing and complicity in theft.
The Royal Air Force and Air Ministry teamed with the Weather Office to induce rainfall over the Tees Valley using Drikold solid carbon dioxide. Over nine days the Wellington aircraft dropped CO2, weather conditions fluctuated, and observers reported showers and a rainbow. Further experiments were signaled as possible.
Sir James Scott Watson of the Ministry of Agriculture spoke at an international veterinary congress in London. He recalled a time when whisky was considered a universal remedy for milk fever in cattle, noting it did not prevent death in a particular cow.
FL MENS IOLA ALBRIGHT signs a Columbia Pictures term contract to play the romantic lead opposite Jack Carson in The Good Humor Man directed by Lloyd Bacon with S. Sylvan Simon producing. Jean Wallace borrowed from Twentieth Century to play the other lead as production continues.
Answers include Sir Stafford Cripps Federation of British Industries Abyssinian war wood nymph and phrases in full dress and hypocrite.
The prompt lists six quirky trivia prompts about British ministers wartime figures and language puns. It blends history, mis-spellings, and slang, asking which minister or concept fits each clue. It reads like a light classroom or newspaper quiz column.
A New Zealand cattle buyer arranged to import seven pure Hereford heifers from the Royal Show champion in Britain. Alexander of Wangal secured the cattle by telegraph and plans to ship them this month to establish a NZ herd, mating them with top French and British stock before departure.
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