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Newspaper
Canberra Times
Location
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Date
Apr 18, 1929
Page
8
In a playful exchange the Beetle and a tailor discuss fashion and fit. The Beetle complains about garments not matching its image while the tailor dismissively insists no one can tailor for him. Minette suggests she will help but the scene ends with a casual walk toward a doorway.
A French editor MM five Marguerite Combes and assistants showed ants form a fire brigade by spraying formic acid to extinguish flames. When a lighted cigarette was placed on an ant hill the alarm spread and ants dragged injured nestmates to safety as a candle and taper were extinguished.
A Plymouth native and former WWI patient recalls Florence Nightingale, "The Lady with the Lamp," describing how Nightingale soothed his pain at St Thomas' Hospital Surrey and how her comforting voice and lace cap left a maternal impression.
A playful acrostic links letters to classes and traits in a school setting. The piece assigns subjects to letters from algebra to writing, poetry, and needlework, ending with hints at class identity and future achievement. It mixes playful mispronunciations and unclear phrases.
Betty hosts a birthday tea at four with her friends. Kitty wears a bow from a ribbon and eagerly joins but claws and sneezes reveal her allergy to the powder, ending the playful scene with a sneeze despite good intentions.
A garbled list of crossword prompts covering geography history zoology and literature with partial phrases and misspellings. The fragment includes requests about a fortified Moroccan port a king of beasts a Persian fury and other scattered clues plus references to French angel and Uncle Tom characters and a wartime town in France.
A jumble of trivia prompts and wordplay items covering geography literature law and mythology. The list asks for names initials translations festivals rivers and notable titles ranging from Croatians to English drama figures with several garbled phrases and unclear correspondences.
The page shares holiday letters from members of the Cheer Circle in Kingston. Girls describe trips to Kingston and North Richmond, mushroom picking, a cricket match in Canberra, Easter events, photos, and poetry. Members recount birthdays, sibling details, and pen names while exchanging well wishes and asking about readers' holidays.
Fragmentary note records two names Bilver Fern of Duntreon and Dahlia of Forest with unclear ages. No additional context or actions provided.
A playful verse recalling imagined futures for a child, contrasting potential lives from a farmer’s son to a dad, and ending with the speaker affirming pride in who they are despite different paths. The whimsy emphasizes family affection and self-acceptance through hypothetical roles.
Fragmentary poem lines describe a scene of fairies dancing at summer dusk. Imagery includes owls and moonlit revelry, with elusive, dreamlike language and invented names. The text reads as a playful, rhythmic mood piece rather than a clear narrative.
A healer gardener tends a battered bed where fragile blooms struggle. A devoted caretaker mends broken stems with improvised crutches from midges and grit, tending the sick flowers with care. Her garden stands apart from others, warmed by her nurturing touch.
A puzzling note asks if you can solve a math word game. It hints at subtracting letters from phrases to yield a final word score. The playful text uses broken phrasing and feels like a handwritten cipher or riddle.
A playful riddle poem presents a well known figure and hints at identity through letter tricks. The speaker claims unchanged nature despite removing letters and asserts consistency across clues. The verse suggests a timeless presence that cannot be destroyed or altered.
A fragmentary speech-like verse describes the sea and sky with hazy humor. The speaker references a white cloud, heat, and a longing mood as the sea speaks in odd imagery.
A party game centers on a photographer who secretly mimics a target player’s attitude. An assistant watches and, when prompted, identifies the chosen player. The reveal hinges on the photographer’s pose and facial nuance, prompting the audience to guess the subject.
Community column notes a motto for residents to consider as the week begins. It mentions local services and small actions to support neighbors and pets amid varied daily routines.
The piece evokes a market scene with a muezzin, fruit seller, and jasmine stands. A refrain of bells and whispers threads through children’s laughter and women’s cries, painting a haunting urban chorus beneath the sun.
Strawberries grown in a forcing frame in London sold at the start of the year for half a crown each. A cellar grown lot wired with electricity produced fruit at £1 per berry, taking about forty days to mature, with excellent form and flavour. The effort used two 12,000 watt mains lines.
A reader puzzle asks how many diamonds exist in the large drawing on the left of the figure. The note mentions a smaller figure and a larger viewer, with answers promised in the next Saturday edition of the paper.
A poetic fragment describes figures at a bonfire in a garden as a bright dancing group. Witches in cloaks rise with eerie gleams while goblins and cybern figures chase pals, and shadows drift behind a distant golden star beyond a hill.
A garbled set of trivia style lines asks about Elven help birds fog sense of direction and a land of missing buns. It mentions Dee and a shoppe hint and ends with a fragment about Corshra Japan.
A playful note describes secretly encoding a letter by removing spaces to reveal a hidden message. It discusses inviting a friend to a party and suggests a method to make the message legible by aligning letters. The text reads as a puzzle about deciphering spaced words.
The text contains garbled guidance about writing names ages and dates on a document and marking originals or copies. It appears to instruct including birth year or date and to label own work as original or copied. The fragment is incomplete and lacks a coherent event or subject.
Nora and Gerald Maloney flee home amid harsh discipline at their aunt Mima Maloney’s. They reach a Cove Point farm and are offered breakfast by a kind landlady who learns they are running away to find freedom. A friendly governess-to-be agrees to take them in briefly.
A playful recount of a picnic by The Picnic 6 crew. They feast on buns and coke, feed ducks, spot wasps, climb trees, and chase a cow raid while gathering apples and ending tucked in bed after a joyful day.
A fragmented verse recalls a dream about shrubs treated with coloured inky shades to make ties. The grown plants prove evergreen, leaving the speaker in grief at the result.
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