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Fragmentary OCR notes mention Poly, Vermont with vague references to a street or local feature. No clear event, date, or names emerge to verify specifics in this unreadable snippet.
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Newspaper
Canberra Times
Location
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Date
Apr 22, 1936
Page
3
Fragmentary OCR notes mention Poly, Vermont with vague references to a street or local feature. No clear event, date, or names emerge to verify specifics in this unreadable snippet.
George Zalaky 45 a patient at Parramatta Asylum drowned after diving from a bridge in the asylum grounds as fellow patient tried to rescue him. A second man James Graves attempted to intervene but both died before rescue crews recovered Zakary. The incident followed a dispute in the water with another patient in the river.
In Wimbledon a reclusive man named Charles I of Wimbledon died at 75 after police forcibly entered his home during a kinship search. A hidden pot contained money and a note suggesting terms of a will or dispute. The brother faced questions and a sister sought to reach relatives in the North, but efforts to trace her have failed.
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The VATE reports prize money rises for the Caulfield Cup to be run October 17 with £8000 to the winner, £1000 to second, £300 to third, and the 2000 guineas Caulfield Guineas prize raised to 2000 guineas. The Debiltant Blaker penalty classes are removed allowing two year olds with prior Sydney or Melbourne wins to enter.
The Rosebery meeting features multiple racing divisions and handicaps including Welter Handicap and Ar-Robbrery Handicap. Key horses listed include Firas Omsion Nurbe Hustler Topies Jutland Norman Penrose Conquest Capimir Silver Foam King, with entries such as Captain Prince Peter Cado Gleawtteh and many others in first and second divisions.
The Wyong race card lists multiple events including Maiden Handicap, April Nursery Handicap, Farm Novice Handicap, Denham Court Handicap, Warwick April Handicap and Adeneor Park Handicap with numerous horses and weights. The Sydney inquiry into the Wyong meeting is noted with adjournment to Friday after a discussion about the Encourage Handicap division.
Racing entries list several horses with handicaps across divisions including Duvenne Blackbird Plvok Hromen, Norman Conquest, Royal Fleet and others. Notable placings show Prince Pombal Roubery Enamour Palady Worwood Kentucky and domestic entries like Balloon Berry Gemnyvilla and Foxhunter with various results and divisions.
The Operatic Society committee opts to mount Havana a full three mer musical comedy by George Grahamith and Graham HAN with Adrian Ross lyrics in Canberra. A reading and vocal audition meeting is at Ainslie Hall tonight at 8 o'clock sharp to recruit new talent from members and prospective members.
Preparations are complete for the Juvenile Convent Ball at Albert Hall this evening with prizes for boys and girls in various dress categories. The event opens at 8 PM with judging soon after and a foot rally until 10 PM. Buses will call en route and admission is 1 shilling for children and 2 shillings for adults.
A distressed recipe claims to stretch scarce remedies by mixing two shillings worth of concentrated HEERRO with water to produce eight bottles of cough and chest illness remedy. The instructions promise a supply equal to about A’s worth of store bought cough cures, featuring nonstandard terms and unclear proportions for uses against coughs colds and related complaints.
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