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Newspaper
Brisbane Courier Mail
Location
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Date
Oct 18, 1933
Page
1
Merchandise and sales manager lists three clean up price reductions on La Mode undergarments including Corselette and Swami brassiére styles. Sizes 20 to 44 range with sale prices from 1 1/4d to 17/11 and base prices noted. Emily marketed through Gregory Court listings across nearby shops with emphasis on popular but reduced stock and fashionably styled pieces.
A fragmented notice advertises missing friends and matrimonial search. It requests readers to send full details to Cirgen Ring with contact through United A Buren in Brisbane.
McDonnell and East Ltd offer a final selling of their insolvent menswear stock at far below ordinary prices. The ad lists shirts pyjamas underwear bathing costumes trousers hats suits and more with womens bathers bloomers vests and ne t items in various colours and sizes plus special offers from George Street Brisbane.
A damaged OCR fragment lists various magazine and story prompts such as True Story True Experience Love and Romance Dream World True Detective Master Detective and mirror style headlines. The text appears incomplete with stray punctuation and inconsistent capitalization.
Miss Esther James continues her free cutting out service in the dress fabric section from 1 to 2 PM. To have a new frock cut out, purchase the material and Home Budget pattern at the Emporium. Madame Loubser, overseas rep of Anna Zelita, shares beauty secrets along with a fashion session. Admission includes lunch. Cafe special oysters offered.
Silk Drive continues with a Brisbane sale featuring ladies beige court and bar shoes by Clark's English maker at 17/ Mu, Roman sandals, velvet Grecian slippers, and infants shoes all offered at sale prices. Also listed are white morocco bags, makeup and medical requisites, and a range of beauty and health items from local firms.
An advertisement for men's tourist shirts in stripe Fuji Sik and stripe Art ilk with reinforced necks double soft cuffs and proper collars in sizes 14 to 17k. Special prices listed 8/11 and 7/11 with varied bust bites and usual prices. Also announces gala afternoon teas Thursday and Friday at Social Theatre with Madame Loubser and Anna Elita beauty preparations and a fashion session.
A dense OCR list of beauty salons and hairdressers with offerings like perm waves, manicuring, electro treatments, and various styling services. Includes multiple business names, addresses on Queen Street and Wickham Street, prices and methods such as Eugene perm, croquignole, and grand head treatments.
The Beirne department store advertises affordable spring selections for girls and children. Items include linen pinafore frocks with inverted pleats, light ground fancy cambric frocks, and children's haircord frocks with bloomers and bonnets. Sizes and sale prices are listed.
Readable lines describe perm styling offerings with curly ends and wave perms. Mentions Adelaide Street location near Woolworth building, and various salons including Marie Meek and Richard Salon. References to attendance and services like trims and curls.
An urban ad lists modern furnished furniture and sewing machines for sale in Brisbane. It promotes fully furnished three room homes with weekly payments, contains many product lines from beds to dining suites, and claims low prices and delivery services. Numerous brand names and contact recollections appear as part of an expansive classified-style offer.
An old newspaper snippet advertises photography services with 1¢ for two words and 4d per tine. It mentions Phil Victorsen and Corr Bowes Cafe, along with portrait work and sending photos to a front location at Six MV, George St.
Fragmented OCR notes list optometrists and eye care services in Brisbane Canberra and Town Halls. Entries mention W for ft words testing lens repairs broken lenses and free airight testing at various branches including Queen Street and Albert Street locations with references to telephones and head offices.
An old advertisement lists dressmaking and millinery offerings with examples of items and services. It mentions Paris patterns, button covering, smocks, pintucking, and children’s wear, plus new machines and various sewing tasks.
Vague ad text promises British trim mings and hand blocked goods for sale at a store. Mentions cleaning by Alexanders and a claim the item will last longer after cleansing. References Brisbane and degraded OCR fragments.
The Brisbane City Council declares sewered premises within 300 feet of laid sewers from Nov 1 1933. The description covers Annerley Road Catherine Street Merton Road Hawthorne Street and surrounding streets with survey lines and boundaries. Lord Mayor W Greene and Town Clerk EF Travill sign the notice dated 7 September 1933.
An advertisement for valve console radios and a Moray valve superhet highlights price points from £7 to £16 10s with terms including deposits and weekly payments. It urges immediate orders from Carnegies at Queen Street and from The Music Masters at Toowong, noting displays in Tatterlalls Arcade and Edward Street and promising a twelve month service guarantee.
A fragmented late 1930s style dispatch notes high officials, protests, and political tensions. It references the High Commissioner in London, radium stock shipments to England, recaptured escapes in Australia, pensions growth, religious delegations in Fremantle, and opposition to a peace expedition against Caledon Bay natives. It also covers trade worries in New South Wales, Labour disputes in Queensland, and disarmament talks with Germany, Italy, and Britain. It mentions Goebbels comments, a Calcutta delay, a Ballingar attack on United Ireland members, Roosevelt’s recovery program costs, and a London exhibition highlight.
A fragmented row from a newspaper page lists sections such as features, Pap, serials, and broadcasting. It references items like ship operations and cable listings, but the legible portions offer only scattered labels and page indicators with no cohesive story.
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