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Newspaper
Canberra Times
Location
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Date
Aug 12, 1927
Page
4
The piece surveys early radio communications and navigation developments for aviation. It notes wartime and civil uses, antennas, weather transmission, and the push for armored radio cables in aircraft to improve guidance and safety. The report references airports, stations, and interchanges in the United States and Australia.
Report notes a proposal to install radio receivers in New South Wales prisons. The Auburn prison in New York is referenced as an example of a connected system with mixed opinions. Observers mention Irish and other inmates with varied backgrounds and one Chinese prisoner among the group.
A jumble of letters and complaints discuss broadcasting church services on radio stations 2H and others. Residents protest Sunday transmissions while some support keeping homes connected to worship.
A ware spomient reports twins Ke Feemingly and Bamn Weckithly showing identical fingerprints. Experts claim no two individuals share exact print patterns, yet researchers note subtle differences suggesting separate identities.
Fragmentary text hints at a discussion of crime patterns and how criminal behavior might be traced or understood. It references images, prints, and the idea of preserving knowledge about criminals, though details are garbled and unclear.
The article discusses brain size differences between men and women and among individuals. It claims some men have larger brains than typical, with a largest woman's brain recorded at 1,712 units, and notes small brains do not imply lesser worth, asserting quality counts over size.
A Westinghouse Lamp Company factory in New Jersey installed an automatic radio tube tester that can inspect up to 20,000 tubes per day, far more than a human can test. The device uses a revolving wheel to align tubes and ejects defective units automatically, while ensuring accuracy and reducing human error.
An old classified style ad lists raffia requisites in various brands and colors, including Glyverine dyed raffia from Zox and Australan dyed options, plus natural raffia and walker's raffia work books. It promotes reduced prices on Troy bases and notes post and free samples on application. The advertiser is GEO. L. GELLATLY known as The Raffia King located on George Street.
A fragmented picaresque of show titles and venues including Madame Ponpa Interlot Road to Teun Foyal The King Volf Sincouis Ladder Crim Opera Mouw Nat Tonteht Varin Limplee The Student line His Migesie Clese Mirle Theatre Toynt Tip Tres Cradh Snatchers Princens Bunny Palace The Sheik Athenicuim Onitwind Bound.
Alan Cobham stars in a government produced feature called The Flight Commander. The film centers on a rescue of a hero and heroine from a Chinese village with the High commander directing action and planes taking part in the auction. Estelle Diredy John Stewart Hamberston Wright appear in supporting roles.
List of weekly broadcasting items for Sydney stations including FC Farmers 2 Meter Friday August 12 to August 21. Programs feature comedians singers choirs and church services with dates and times for St Andrew's Cathedral Pitt Street Monger National and many others.
Readable fragments describe an elementary school in London with misread fees per pupil and infant department, plus a term from Worwegan interpreted as seeing in the objective. Mention of no drunkenness in Kasex town Harlow over five years, and a Putney church porch library with Law volumes where borrowers borrow books.
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