Formula For Power He Reveals a Drug Hypothesis in Lab
In a staged scientific scene at a gleaming laboratory, Professor Halliwell Deane and his son Saxon watch as Deane explains a controversial drug based hypnosis concept from Webling. The plan aims to subdue insanity via a drugged, obedient subconscious mind, with risks of memory gaps and ethical peril hinted. The moment hints at looming tragedy as Webling’s experiments intensify and a mysterious intruder appears.
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Great Shrine of Research
Halliwell Deane
Saxon
Deane
Minu- Mer
Woosh-Basin
Sparda Webling
Webling
Deane Little
Hoimery
Beane
Shadowed Lab Coats and Silent Fear at Dinner
The Deane family hosts Professor Webling at dinner while Saxon grows uneasy, sensing threat in Webling’s calm confidence. Leon Batt’s dialogue hints at tension between old friendship and creeping mistrust as Saxon’s skepticism sharpens during the evening. Tomorrow continues the unsettling story.
Crocodile Attack in African River Story Told
In a tale from The Children's Corner, an African woman washing by a river reserve fights to save her crawling baby as a crocodile attacks. A policeman arrives, a gun is fetched, and the crocodile drops its prey. the mother is seen nursing the infant afterward. Also wishes for Jean Brennan and Titania on their birthdays.
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Buhoresia
Arocodile
Jean Brennan
Coorparoo
Freachdoc
Titania
Wynnum
Queer Questions And Puzzling Riddles From The Past
A fragment presents a string of quirky questions and playful riddles about teeth tongues whey puss toe and mistletoe with answers implied or hinted. The piece mirrors a light column style of wordplay common in old newspapers.
Challenge to button coat before twenty count
A playful challenge to a mate to button his coat within twenty seconds. The likely result is he starts at the top and buttons down rather than up, ensuring you win the bet.
Money Competition on Fractions in The Courier Mail
The Courier Mail invites entries by June 15 for a money and fractions puzzle. Find a fraction of a pound plus the same fraction of a shilling and the same fraction of a penny that totals one pound. Prizes of 5 for the first correct answer and 2/6 for the next. Send to Sally Harner at The Courier Mail Office, Brisbane, with Money Competition on the envelope.
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Sally Harner
Courier-Mail
Brisbane
Knotty Puzzle Teases Assistants With String Trick
A reader story describes a party game where participants try to tie a knot in the center of a string longer than a yard without letting go of the ends. After multiple attempts fail, a sleight of hand shows an easy method: place the string along the table edge, cross arms, then lift the ends to reveal a knot in the center.
Riddle Reveals A Bed With Two Heads And Four Legs
A playful riddle asks what has two heads one foot and four legs. The answer is a bed as a witty misdirection. The poem-style cueplay invites readers to guess aloud.
Riddle on marriage and the paradox of the widow's niece
The passage quips that a man cannot marry his widow's niece, since a man who is married to a widow would already be deceased. The speaker teases by shifting to relationships and then exposes the contradiction to provoke laughter at someone’s expense.
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Cerean
Jennings
Tapas
Dream City in Turkey Reimagines Angora as Modern Metropolis
An admirer of modern architecture will see his dream realized not in America or Europe but in Asia Minor. Angora, now Ankara, rises on ruins with wide boulevards, imposing buildings, parks and newly allowed sculpture, offering all modern city amenities. An illustrated description appears in The Sunday Mail next issue.
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Europe
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Sunday Mail
Filmland Garden Of Allah and Hollywood Reflections
Robert Donat recalls home-sickness during filming The Count of Monte Cristo in Hollywood He writes about reality fear of studio carpenters dismantling scenery and recalls old star Harry Garey plus Do W Griffith’s stance on Mary Pickford’s name in film credits The Courier Mail reports.
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Courier-Mall
Harry Garey
DO. W. Griffith
Mary Pickford
Kingshome fete to open by governor on June 18
A Kingshome fete marks the opening of the home for old soldiers by the governor Sir Lesila Wilson on June 18. The indies committee and women's auxiliaries organize the event with free admission and a full day of activities so Brisbane residents can view the interior before inmates move in.
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Lesila Wilson
The
Indies’ Committee
Brisbane
Letters to the Editor on Women and Society
A reader endorses Mr Cameron’s view that a woman’s place is in the home and argues women’s labor undercuts men, urging a return to traditional roles. Comment follows condemning beauty contests on Southport beaches as promoting vanity, and another letter questions pensions inquiries faced by elderly Queenslanders. A final note complains about monopolies and taxes on labor, urging greater value in goods and fair taxation.
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M.hlr
West End
R. Waters
The Suburban Store and Proposals for Fair Enforcement
The letter argues grocers support pennies and that only small operators are prosecuted for minor sales. It urges even application of laws to wealthy hotel trade, resisting selective enforcement. The writer backs a week wage for branch managers at small stores and stresses after hours sales do not curb employment.
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Shajss Assistants Union
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Plum Grower Warns Against Banning Small Plums
A Plum Grower from Granite Belt argues small plums sell better and at lower prices, noting brisk ple sales at 24 for 6d in George Street and nearby areas. He says large plums fail at end of January, and cheap fruit keeps many customers tasting fruit, criticizing large stores for restricting small plums.
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Valley
Woolloongabba
Stone's Corner
Frobeck
Tax Benefits to Loan Investors in Commonwealth Finance
Canberra reports the Federal Treasurer Mr Casey announcing substantial taxation privileges for investors in a £10,250,000 loan. He cited a net income of £600 and outlined Queensland, Commonwealth, and State tax on non consolidated stock income versus interest from consolidated stock, noting a saving of £4 14s 10d.
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Commonwealth
Casey
Queensland
Fifty Years Ago May 30 1888 Courier Notes
Fifty years ago items include plates for steel sleepers for Normanton railway, a Sydney racing figure charged with cruelty in horse racing case dismissed, Australians 179 and English 235 for one wicket in a match, Grace 50 in final half hour, a Queensland governor letter protesting Chinese exclusion in tropical Australia, Mrs Willmore's organ recital in Brisbane, a rat plague in Winton, rats damaging wooden stairs and galvanised iron safes, Chinese stores in Greydon and Etheridge affected, Croydon note on Hodgkinson order to the warden.
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Sydney
England
Grace
Pallamt
Queensland
the Times
Australia
W. G. Willmore
Wickham Terraceesbyterian
Willmore
Brisbane
Winton
Herald
Greydon
Etheridge
Gare Deners
Croydon
Mt Gravatt Show Scheduled for July 30
The Mt Gravatt show will be held on Saturday July 30. Schedules are available from secretary Mr W H Clacke at Stone's Corner or Mt Gravatt by telephone J6892.
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MT. Gravatt
W. H. Clacke
Stone's Corner
Examinations critiqued by Brisbane principal at teachers meeting
A Brisbane Boys' College principal Mr G M Hamilton criticized the examination system at the Teachers Conference Hall in The Courier-Mail. He argued abolition would harm equal opportunity and urged reforms, while co-educational supporters offered no concrete alternative.
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Courier-Mail
G. M. Hamilton
Brisbane Boys' College
Brisbane
Industry and Taxation in Dividend Context
Mr. V. Miers argues that dividend paying companies are unhurt by taxation and may even enable dividends, but such industries do not benefit the country. He contends that taxes support unprofitable firms, while profitable industries rise from increases in wages and interest, with rent from monopolies forming the third factor.
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Miers
Fragmented Australia News Snippets in Classified Style
A jumble of notes and Q&A style tidbits from Brisbane and Melbourne columns cover photography permissions union guidance film production offices and shipwreck lore. Mentions Queensland Cement and Lime Company photographers Brisbane unions and boxer Jack Jannock with brief location hints and scattered instructions.
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