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Newspaper
Bunbury Herald
Location
Bunbury, Western Australia, Australia
Date
Dec 22, 1917
Page
7
Osborne I. Yelliott of the American Automobile Association argues that traffic laws should promote care without rigid limits. He calls for rational enforcement, avoiding blanket speeds, and tailoring penalties to offense severity. A helmet and armor tests illustrate shifting safety perspectives.
The article urges motorists to regularly inspect tyres for cuts and wear. It promotes Dunlop re parer as a self vulcanizing compound that seals small gashes and improves mileage, noting weekly checks prevent costly neglect and enhance road safety.
The article explains helmet testing by an American company involved in helmet production. A helmet tested at 40 yards with an American service rifle was perforated, and five trials yielded similar results, revealing the helmet’s failure to stop bullets.
In High Street a car driven by a woman struck Jones and a friend. The friend was taken to hospital but soon moved to the police station. the driver insisted Jones was careless. Jones, replying, claimed he had thirty four years of walking without incident.
At a local railway station a boy whispered to the ticket collector that two men in first class were traveling without tickets. The search found none until the boy revealed the two men were on the engine, letting the locomotive's attendant escape detection.
A failing amateur singer faces the manager's ire during a trial at a local hall. After failings, two boys steal bags from a cemetery and plan to divide the loot at the gate, prompting a frightened escape by a passing Black man and his white friend who overhear the scene. The timing and details suggest a lurid, melodramatic vignette with social tension.
A veterinary and farming description outlines long held egg preservation methods. It covers clay sealing used in China, modern cool storage at 31 to 32 degrees, and best practices to avoid flavor loss, thawing before consumption, freshness checks, and using water glass silicate solutions for long term preservation. It also notes goose and gander identification by call and a method used by Irish to deter geese.
Advice on toe punching as a lifelong identification method for poultry. Recommends recording toe-punch diagrams in a register to track bloodlines, ensuring customers receive line-bred stock and highlighting its role in proving individual hen records via a tested system.
Darkness and damp favour vermin while dry, well-ventilated, half open fronted houses keep poultry healthier. With proper feeding, liver disease and respiratory issues are reduced over generations. Cold harms only poorly fed birds, coddling in warm stables causes most diseases, and better winter care pays off next summer.
A half of a waggon bed hoist is shown with matching second half. When a wagon passes between the halves the top rails engage the bed edges and lift it from the running gear with little effort. The device is held by catches. Inventor Frank Janak of Woodland, California holds U.S. patent 1,201,969. A separate note describes a plant transplanting dibble worn on a shoe to mark holes for planting.
The article describes a Berni device attached to a shoe for tying vines to posts and wires, forcing a spike into a post and binding vines. It mentions inventor Anthony M. Nicosia of Perinton New York and U S patents 1 202 568 and 1 204 reflecting similar agricultural aids. It also notes a corn husking tool, with a bar to open husk and a hooked tear riveted to a component designed for corn ears.
The metal plate worn on the hand and a weed cutter sprayer attach to cultivators. A surface blade carries three spray attachments delivering liquid beneath soil to kill objectionable plants and larvae. Inventors include Robert Harding McFarland of Republic Kansas and Thomas Hornecker of La Fayette California.
A diary recounts a week of tank service amid heavy combat on the Western Front. Monday describes initial disorientation and brutal trench fighting, including shellfire and machine guns, with grim humor amid losses. Tuesday to Saturday chronicle continued battles, prisoner rounds, and tank-induced awe, ending with renewed action and ambushes as the crew battles through villages and trenches.
A mixed recipe page presents spinach boiled with butter and egg battered fried bananas with seasoning, then chocolate dipped coconut rounds and a green pea salad with rice and mint. It includes a mutton roast with stuffing and gravy, poached eggs in parsley sauce, and assorted kitchen tips alongside wartime field descriptions.
Mike Flaherty, new on guard, faced questions from officers about his duties at a station guarding a powder magazine. When asked what he would do if the magazine blew up, he replied he would go up with the report to the orderly officer.
The excerpt outlines preparing coated chestnuts as a breakfast or supper dish. Boil chestnuts, peel, then whisk icing sugar with lemon juice and water to make a glaze. Dip chestnuts on skewers into the sugar glaze, coat thoroughly, dry, and store in bondor safes.
The article argues that story telling enhances early learning by linking home school and community life. It notes children think in concrete terms, gains in verbal expression, and vocabulary when families and teachers co tell stories. It warns teachers to avoid explicit moralizing and let lessons emerge through narrative.
A Journal of Agriculture of South Australia summary explains a paralysis disease affecting horses, mostly blacks browns and greys aged two to seven. It notes causes are not well studied but involve worm poisoning digestibility changes moulds and harvest fatigue. Symptoms include hindquarter weakness and constipation while urination remains frequent. Treatment advises bowel cleansing arsenic Fowler's solution quinine and spine liniments with early veterinary help.
An elderly speaker laments modern girls while debating her grandson’s future. A judge and Mrs G discuss the appeal of the legal profession, noting lawyers’ talkativeness and the tension between desire and expectation in choosing a career.
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