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Newspaper
Bridgetown Advocate
Location
Bridgetown, Western Australia, Australia
Date
Sep 15, 1938
Page
5
The piece promotes Dr Williams Pink Pills as a cure for fatigue headaches and nervousness claiming to restore health. It asserts poor blood causes illness and that pills banish headaches and revive vitality, available at chemists and stores.
Derek Campbell pursues the criminal Burton with help from Pierre and Kenneth. A chase unfolds through misty countryside to a village near Kent and Sweex where Campbell reports the peril to a local officer. The convoy splits, Burton escapes, and Campbell urges urgent broadcast alerts as the search expands.
A poetic tribute describes a man who saved a town by labor and unselfish service. It evokes a forested homeland, enduring streets beside the North Sea, and returning citizens who carry memories of brave, hardworking mentors. The piece laments losing such “great-hearted sons” yet imagines their return on wings of time.
Pierre and Derek erupt with rage over an unfolding threat as a mysterious man in a morning coat enters a scene at a telegraph office. The Chief Constable is urged to alert Scotland Yard and to delay no detour as Turton’s agents await a personal signal to thwart looming catastrophes. The note ends with a promise of continuation.
A discussion on the large rise in federal defence spending and funding options. It argues for developing northern territories like Papua and New Guinea due to mineral wealth and strategic position, improving transport and cross-river links, and using taxation, borrowing, and public works to finance defence while aligning peacetime and wartime industrial needs.
Odds favor the Methodrine Cu and a lifetime of tard work lead to a major payout. Dominant on the draw, a fortune of £15,008 goes to the winner, with £5,000 and £140 secondary prizes. Twenty-eight hundred cash winners are noted, with tickets priced at 10 shillings or one shilling per pound for all.
A long list of grocery items and prices appears from John Wills & Co. Ltd, detailing brands, weights, and various equivalents. The catalog covers cereals, canned goods, dairy, biscuits, teas, coffees, sugars, spices, preserved fruits, jams, oils, condiments, cleaning products, and hardware-like items, all with unit costs and bulk offerings. Numerous named brands and product lines appear, including Willsgood, Nestle, Paterson, Robur, Seppelt, and more, reflecting a wide provisioned inventory and price points for a general grocery and provender supplier.
A compact price list shows washboards and woollen items priced per unit, yolkine pits listed with dos and tins, bottles, yeast compressed oz, and teestos in terse shopper notes. The entries mix odd amounts and shorthand, reflecting a historical catalog of household goods and prices.
A frayed catalog itemizes bulk and wholesale prices for fruits, canned goods, snacks, electric globes, fish, fruit preserves, and household staples. It lists items like apricots, plums, pears, peaches, canned fruit, and many branded products with varied price tokens and unit measures.
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