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Newspaper
Bridgetown Advocate
Location
Bridgetown, Western Australia, Australia
Date
Sep 09, 1948
Page
9
In 1941 Victoria moved to organize pump units for rural fire brigades. A Melbourne firm is assembling durable portable bushfire fighting units on an assembly line. Production runs at 40 units per month with 200 hoped for by the new fire season.
Police arrested George Ash Gaines after pulling him from a disturbance in Provincetown. Officers recovered sunglasses pills stage money scissors vitamin items and more than two hundred additional odds and ends from the two suits he wore.
The Tottenham Pudding sterilised pig food, made from kitchen waste saved by households and services, supports about half a million pigs about a third of Britain's total. Britain had 1,631,000 pigs, up roughly 500,000 from last year, with government purchases supplying bacon factories and private pig owners largely excluded.
A collage of film industry notes includes David Niven dismissing riches amid a London flat offer, divorce rumors surrounding Franchot Tone and Jean Wallace, Wanda Hendrix set to wed Audie Murphy, and Lucille Bremer’s Catalina Island marriage. Reports on Robert Preston’s singing debut in Whispering Smith, mature female leads praised by director Lewis Allen, customs pearl seizures in Sydney, and notes on pork production and German orchestra records for music students.
Bright Forest, a Sydney greyhound nearly five years old, reportedly sleeps about 22 hours daily and has won nearly 60 races with over £1300 in prize money. Trainer Jack Brannagan notes her long career is aided by rest and that she must be awakened for walks.
In Tokio police arrested a pickpocket after the victim Hisaichi Morita recovered his wallet from the thief who had just picked Morita’s pocket. The unusual reversal ended with the thief in custody.
Arthur Brach complained that a robot he was repairing in Milwaukee struck him on the head, leaving him injured and filing a grievance about the malfunctioning device.
Eric Troward of North Cheriton Somerset grows tobacco at home and makes about 200 cigarettes weekly from 40 plants. He notes England’s climate can produce usable leaves with three to ten weeks’ curing, challenging myths of impossible English tobacco.
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