A Woman's Letter Weekly Gossip From Brisbane
The Brisbane gossip column notes Show Week delays and weather dampening exhibitions. Mrs Bruce attends dances with Prime Minister Bruce, while Lord Stonehaven also visits. Debutantes struggle for partners, fashion trends favored long gowns and lace. A breach of promise case involving a gold wedding dress drew sympathy and £500 damages.
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Mr. Bruce
Mrs Bruce
Bruce
Uniwd Service
Tord Stonehaven
United Service
Popelice Tierses
Winter Fashion and Visitors Lighten Townsville Show Crowd
Townsville notes report millinery departments sprucing for winter frocks as chilly weather eases. Visitors Mer and Mira J. Geib, L. Hurteat, J. Bennett, H. Bennett, and Mrs Carlson with her son stay at the trawl Hotel. Squadron Leader Bert Kinkler and Mrs Hinkler join the show festivities.
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Townsville
Mer
Aid Mira
J. Os
Uniform gauge progress on Brisbane to Kragle railway
Brisbane reports ongoing work on the uniform gauge line to Kragle with bridge delays at Chirence river in New South Wales. About 1450 men currently work in Queensland with four miles of rails laid and four miles more in progress, bridges near completion to 49 miles, earthworks advanced to the border, and pier cylinders for Bunning Creek bridge nearing finish.
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Brisbane
Kryagle
Chirence River
New South Wales
Swine
Queensland
Bunning Creek
Lewanop
Tunnels and bridges advance on McPherson Range line
Progress updates show excavation and concreting underway on two McPherson Range tunnels with Gloucester Street South Mridane also dug. A three quarter mile tunnel at ber dee and the Keoele to berder section are under NSW government construction. Bridge work on the Charter at Grafton near completion and the Sydney through line costs about £540,000.
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McPherson Range Reef
Gloucester Street
Mridane
Berdee
New South Wales
Keoele
Iishictery Progress
Grafton
Sydney
Verses on Power and Quiet Hands for Work
Fragmentary verse piece describes a dialogue where the Master quizzes a servant about strengths and faults. It portrays cleansing of hands and redirection of effort toward the Master’s will, emphasizing humility, healing, and ordained service.
Opperman Shines In Paris Bix Day Race
Opperman impresses by finishing third after teaming with Arago when Broccardo could not resume. Sham and Boucheuron won covering 4.44 kilometres in 144 hours. Opperman, racing solo, lapped the field and drew a warm reception. Buffalo Velodrome manager Mr. Coquelle hails Opperman as a remarkable rider. He may race solo or team again after further withdrawals.
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Paris
Opperman
Arago
Broccardo
Sham
Boucheron
Coquelle
Buffalo Velodrome
Opperma
Opperman Earned Striking Tribute in Six Day Ride
London reports Opperman delivered a marvellous performance in a six day race. The Australian rider rode eighteen hours with no fellow rider, kept up with gaps from the lead platoon, and endured relentless effort amid praise from a French daily. He slept only when pressed by a kindly trick.
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London
Opperman
T’atto
Tie
New Styles in Swindling Featured in Life Magazine
The August Life magazine profile reveals evolved swindling methods replacing the gold-brick and straw-decker ruses. It highlights new schemes by modern con artists and previews several feature articles and fiction pieces by Edgar Wallace James Warner Bellah and others.
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Life
Lowell Themis
Charles Nuttall
Boppe O
the Anol Whiffs
James Warner Bellah
Edgar Wallace
J. M. Walsh
Every Lady's Journal August Issue Highlights
The August Every Lady's Journal features fashion designs free dress patterns and helpful departments. It promotes a 60 pound prize film contest open to all readers and includes serial installments and interviews such as The Real Mane Royden and Thirty Years in Stage land.
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Everylady
Ins
Elizabeth Jordan
Percy Hutchison
Mane Royden
Muriel Meek
Mary Card
Notable Mails Captured and a Dog's Courtroom Moment
The dispatch notes captured mails arrived intact and the Damascus ban appears with a grim view on British mail theft and the risks faced by the thief. In Nottingham a dog sat on a magistrate's table to judge its fierceness. Dr. James Maitland Anderson, librarian of St. Andrews University, Scotland, has died after starting life as a cowherd.
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Bagdad
Damascus
Aprar
Nottingham
James Maitland Anderson
St. Andrew's University
Scotland
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Silvia
New York
Victoria Ridge
South Wales
Cnet
All Saints
Gordon
Kinug
Saul
Dolly
Sumdlay-school
Strickland W. Gillman
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