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Newspaper
Canberra Times
Location
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Date
Dec 31, 1926
Page
8
In Nymagee drought prompts rabbit die-off and netting, while New York residents misidentify famous figures in a comic survey. A Murrumbidgee cowkeeper reports low wheat yields and rising costs, as Australia faces debt, weather damage, and a severe Abercorn hailstorm that wrecked homes and injures residents.
A historic bell hung for years at St Patrick's Church Wellington New South Wales is moved to make way for a new bell. The old bell, heard across the Macquarie River country, was cast about 60 years long ago and weighed 12 pounds.
Miss Florrie Hodges, famed bush-fire heroine, meets Mrs Jane Turnbull in Melbourne. Turnbull presents 1060 pounds raised as a testimonial for Hodges. The elder woman recalls 1804 Horsham bush tragedy when she lost siblings and protected her infant nephew.
A large 85 lb meteorite of nickel iron type was placed in the Brisbane Museum after being found at Glenor Miston station in Western Queensland last year. Its irregular shape measures about 20 by 14 by 4 inches and it offers rare testimony on materials outside our solar system, with meteorites providing clues to celestial composition beyond spectroscope data.
A Birmingham man who believes he is made of glass inspires fresh strange cases. Earlier, a Lianago resident in Monmouthshire thought himself the maker of Gruyere cheese, buying a gimiet and boring holes in his body. An elderly London woman who believed she was a motor omnibus buys a tin bonnet and runs along the Strand, ignoring traffic police.
Cochineal insects are being distributed to combat prickly pear across Central Queensland. Infested areas extend a 600 mile front from Wowan through Castle Creek with 10 000 petrol caves of infected pear spread. A campaign moves toward Taroom as many sites already show flora carrying the insects and infected leaves.
Fragmentary poem by Mary Biogriat speaks of time retreating as the speaker holds a memory bound to enduring springs. It envisions a universal temple of humanity where love and light unite all races and nations, revealing an open secret beyond books and creed.
A young suitor seeks consent to marry the widow’s daughter and asks for the privilege of care and home. The widow, overcome with emotion, embraces him and gratefully blesses the match, saying she long hoped for a model man to be her son.
A farmer served as umpire at a colliery cricket match. A batsman claimed not out to a leg before wicket appeal. The umpire urged him to observe from this end and keep his leg in place while he checked the decision.
A quirky fragment finds a city chauffeur turned student, a teacher testing youths with symbolic buttons for life liberty and happiness, and a girl with a handbag contrasting a hopeful gaze. The snippet blends humor and street dialogue in a period tone.
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