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Newspaper

Canberra Times

Location

Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia

Date

Jan 19, 1931

Page

4

Snow's Trump-Sale Prices on Fancy Worsted Trousers

A promotional list shows Snow's Trump prices on a range of garments and fabrics. Entries include Fancy Worsted Sports Trousers, Cellular Athletic Singlets, Fuji Silk Golf Shirts, De Lux Golf Shirts, silk and cotton H oses, sheeting bolts, coloured towels, floral voiles, fancy crepes, silk hose, ladder-proof hose, Christy's fancy soaps, and shopping bags with marked old prices and lower Trump prices for each item. The ad emphasizes substantial discounts and regular prices contrasted with Trump prices.

Sydney Snow

Bargains in the Show Room Shop Listing

A showroom sale advertises crepe bloomers and bras in missing sizes with wholesale prices. Cotton vests linen hats and rayon bloomers are offered in assorted colors at reduced prices. Several hats and bloomers are listed with fraction pricing and per item details.

Blackmail Letters Shake Magdeburg Germany

German police crack a blackmail ring after arresting a locksmith and two farmers in Ehendorf, release many suspects, and identify writers who threatened to release Colorado beetles and cause explosions. A £60 reward and a pressure-filled manhunt led to a confession after handwriting analysis and a found typewriter.

Magdeburg Germany Ehendorf Blackmall

Food Tests On Infant Mice Reveal Weaning Shift

Dr. MacDowell and C G MacDowell at Cold Spring Harbor report that infant mice grow slowly in the first two weeks due to too many brothers and sisters. Extra mother's milk speeds growth to near prebirth rates, doubling weight by day fourteen, then slows until solid food begins. Home mice with good mothers nurse longer and delay solid food, with milk still effective after two weeks. Further work seeks the primary factor behind weaning and what triggers it.

Pr. EF. CO MacDowell

Glass Stoppers: New Bottle Stoppering Method

A description of a bottle making process introduces glass stoppers. The lip is finished after the bottle, then the bottle is topped by a machine. Aerated water pushes stoppers into a cork ring within a groove, fixing them in place as the bottle exits the machine.

Panama Canal Flourishing Prompts Congress Request

Congress at Washington is asked to appropriate funds to extend canal Zone housing and services due to population growth from the canal artery traffic. More than 6,000 yards of gas passage and 29,000,000 in charges were handled as Zone population rose from 22.85 percent in 1920 to 39,487 in 1930, urging better schools housing post officers and equipment. The Governor stresses maintaining past credit standards as the United States aims to fund needed expansion.

Congress Washington Panama Canal Zone Art Java Trafic Congresa United Hkmalex

How Dog Saved a Family

A Brooklyn apartment fire endangered a family of four. Two dogs alerted minister Harry Schultz as flames engulfed the front dining room. Schultz leaped from a window, injured, then guided his wife and children to safety with help from neighbors before a police officer rescued the barking dogs. Fire blamed on a defective electric wire.

Brooklyn Harry Schultz Schultz

Pocket Radio A Wireless Receiver For Police Use Invented

A former wireless operator from Slough Buckinghamshire has created a pocket radio receiver small enough to fit in a coat, capable of receiving messages up to 60 miles distant. It weighs about 1 1 2 pounds and 1 8 1/8 inches deep. Plans include a private broadcasting station at a police station and distributing experimental models to officers on patrol.

Slough Buckinghamshire

Weight of the human brain by race and gender

The article states brain weight varies by race and gender with men slightly heavier than women. It notes median brain weight peaks in early life and stabilizes around age 60, then slowly changes every decade. It also mentions rare individuals with brains lighter or heavier than typical, cites Hea th as heaviest and Requimaix as lightest in the fragment.

Moorfield Kogarah Stakes Six Furlongs First Division

Moorfield card lists six furlongs races with Bowery, Wedding Feast, and Anchor contenders. Multiple divisions show winners, margins, and times across First and Second divisions, including Juvenile Handicap and Moorfield Mile with Lord Romeo and Legis lator among notable runners.

Foreman E G Stubington to Manage Canberra Workshops

From about Monday the 25th instant our Queanbeyan Foreman E G Stubington will reside at the Canberra Garage and oversee all workshop operations there. The firm guarantees any work carried out by him or under his supervision.

Queanbeyan E.G Stubington Canberra

Caulfield Race Day Partly Reported Results

Multiple races detailed with horse names, jockeys, and times. Notable winners include Nauru in a five furlongs and a half event, Millette in another sprint, Mira Donna in the Anniversary Handicap, Prince Dayton in a longer race, and King Pos with a close finish. Proceedings list betting odds and runner lineups.

Mira Donna A. Heed Prince Dayton Inc Duncan Tas Taras R. Hones Clarius Lampra Prince Don Stowe Taran Coromandel Patto Gay /Malute Impartial Kendale Pantont

Newman Wins Elimination Round in London Billiards

In London the elimination round of the billiards contest concluded with Newsman defeating Davis. Newman advances to face Lindrum in the final for the gold cup on February 3. Final scores show Newman at 20 003 with breaks listed, Lindrum at 23 801 with breaks, and McConachy defeated 1) 8 with two breaks.

London Newsman Davia Newman Lindrum Devin McConachy

Barbers Protest Census Heading Domestic and Personal Service

American barbers complain they were listed under domestic and personal service in the census. They say the work requires study of bacteriology anatomy of the upper body histology of hair and skin and skilled head and facial muscle manipulation.

Wolfe's Very Gallant Friend Admiral Saunders Honored

The Canadian Prime Minister laid a wreath at Admiral Sir Charles Saunders's grave in Westminster Abbey. Saunders shared with General Wolfe the task at Quebec in 1759 and, despite warnings, led the British fleet up the St Lawrence River, pivotal to Wolfe's victory.

Canada Wesminster Abbey Charles Saunders Wolfe Aiken Queber Admiral Saunders St Lawrence Perllons Abraham

Tooronga Handicap Six Furlongs Atina Triumphs

In the Tooronga Handicap six furlongs Aina led from Wise Force and Hathalie with a photo finish by a head. Wise Force finished second with Golden Arrow and Uriah Heap among the others in the field as the race time recorded near 1 minute. In the second division Byron upset Mystic Peak with David Garrick and Royal Raven close behind as the winner came by a length and a half.

Tooronga AINA W. Duncan Wise Force J. Daniels Hathalie H. Morris Gutleun Hirowoc Antonello Binna Rose Golden Arrow Uriah Heap Dinalang Ona Mark Rotting Hinza Attonelio Btroges Val Rone Byron T. Lewle T. Yamnehe David Garrick Myntle Peak Xhif Eesex Ermine Rometia Belling Myron King Revel Hiosetta Great Thought Mystic Peak

To 10 Reveals BANKS Ri State Conspiracy Paper

There is a report noting a BANKS Ri State conspiracy rumor tied to Lyons involving a paper and alleged appearance. The text references Lyons and a deliberation among authors or editors.

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