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Newspaper
Bridgetown Advocate
Location
Bridgetown, Western Australia, Australia
Date
Sep 08, 1949
Page
9
MISS JULIA BRADY an inmate of the Sacred Heart Hospice in Darlinghurst is believed to be about 110. She takes pride in her appearance and asked to be well presented before her interview this week.
Fragmentary OCR describes a Fort Worth police reaction to a routine letter from Twin Falls Idaho. The text is garbled with invented phrases and unclear details about a person, a sale of water, a Chicago man, and a confession, making the core event hard to identify.
NSW dairy farmer Mr S G Guinery milks 25 cows to music for six years saying milk output rises with radio tunes. He notes a theft of his first radio stopped milking as cows refused to enter. After replacing the radio the cows returned quickly to milking.
Police recovered a chaotic assortment from a suspect including an automatic pistol, 4 handfuls of bullets, 9 pocket screwdrivers, 2 tobacco tins, a hunting knife, 2 pipes, 3 watches, 80 keys on 4 key rings, 3 pairs of scissors, a gun holster, 29 old coins, a pencil sharpener, a knife sheath, 43 rubber bands, empty tobacco sacks, 4 cough drops, 20 handkerchiefs, 2 wooden paddles, a nail file, a hair curler and pencil, 2 pairs of pliers, leather gloves, a packet of cigarettes, adhesive tape, 2 plugs of chewing tobacco, 2 wallets, 2 purses, 10 spooled thread, 19 safety pins, 33 needles, pins, 2 padlocks, a cigarette lighter, 10 boxes of matches, 4 rings, 15 match folders, a pair of glasses, and 35 pieces of assorted junk including nuts bolts screws and wash. One wallet contained £7 and the purse about £3.
ALM MENS Miss Betty Callaghan, publicity director for Gainsborough Studios, visits Australia on her first international trip. She describes working on Miranda as the highlight of her career and notes Glynis Johns handled tricky underwater scenes with humor.
NINETEEN-YEAR-OLD Ruth Ehlers of North Bergen plans a wedding to 23 year old mechanic Villani in a diving bell at the ocean floor. She writes to AL Janie City asking to arrange the equipment and admits the plan may sound sensational or crazy.
A noisy list of multiple choice style questions on language origins and terms such as arson peccable savannah telescope Scottish church primus dancer dyson dynasty shagroon aut da fe lyddite and voodoo. The text includes garbled foreign characters and stray symbols, resembling a page fragment from a linguistic trivia section.
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