Goulburn Hosts Thiranne Picnic Races And Local Festivities
Goulburn welcomed fashion visitors for the Thiranne Picnic Race week with sunny Thursday and Friday. Harry Osborne won the Brown Furme Cup amid dancing and social gatherings. Teams set for Bong Bong festivities later, while swimming lessons educated about 3 girls and 70 boys at Goulburn baths. The Goulburn Liedertafel rehearses a stage comedy set for February. Salvation Army leadership changes at the Goulburn Corps. A renovated Tirrann church opened after window memorials. Motor racing thrilled crowds with the Australian Grand Prix and four main winners. Fronty-Ford crash barely injuring the driver. Record LOB degrees observed Saturday. Lost River diamond mine yields gems and gold as a local syndicate advances mining. South Australian Sheffield Shield team defeated NSW with Culhane, Webstar, Hog, Kelesel shining for Goulburn. North cote Bleggle Club claims miser amateur status. five Goulburn cyclists travel to Melbourne. Beiffert and Cray win race meets. Track strength praised as among the Commonwealth's best.
Kindling and Ashes Review by The Bookman
The Bookman assesses George Barr McCutcheon’s Kindling and Ashes as a thrilling yet daring novel about two feuding families in Kentucky and Indiana, whose clash ends in love between Barbara Wayne and Bennie Jaggard. The critic notes McCutcheon’s long success, cites publishers Dodd Mead New York, and mentions a Sydney copy from Dymocks Book Arcade. The piece also briefly references a separate title Summer Bachelors by Warner Fat an.
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George
McCutcheon
Kentucky
Indiana
Barbara Wayne
Bennie Jaggard
Sampea
George Barr McCutcheon
George Barr McCutcheun
Dodd, Mead and Company
New York
Sydney
Warner Fatan
Stanley Paul and Co
London
Dymocks Wook Arcade
Bernard Shaw declines Nobel Prize money for 1934
In a letter to the Swedish Academy Shaw refuses the £4500 Nobel Prize for literature, saying his readers suffice. He suggests using the funds to foster Anglo Swedish literary and artistic exchange and criticizes empty Swedish export paper as a symbol of Britain’s literary neglect.
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Swedish Academy
Hernard Shaw
London
Sweden
Britain
Kipling Schoolboy Lyrics fetches 470 pounds at New York sale
A first edition of Rudyard Kipling's Schoolboy Lyrics sold in New York for 470 pounds. The piece, written while Kipling was at school in England, illustrates how hidden treasures can lie ignored in homes. The article muses that uncovering valuables across Britain could help reduce national debt.
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Rudyard Kipling
England
New York
Great Britain
The Tenderfoots, Puritan Boy in Gold Rush West
Walter Puritan Philip Trusk, a New England Puritan, travels west to find work and his vanished father. He and a naive partner mine gold, fall into bad company, and face ruin before redemption through friendship and Jean Dabney. The novel follows moral struggle amid 1870s gold rush romance and hardship.
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Franca Lyndo Wn
Philip "Trusk
New England
West
Philip Im
Sucess Philp
Harry Hiomly
Jean Dabney
Tenderfoots
Francia Lynde
Charles Beribner's
Bona, New iWork
Dymocks’ Book Arcade
Sydney
Fancy Dress and Other Verses by Dorothea Mackellar
A brief notice extols Dorothea Mackellar’s Fancy Dress and Other Verses, praising her descriptive lyricism and simple language. It highlights poems like The Wings of a Dove and describes Australian landscapes, noting the volume’s origins in various newspapers and publication by Angus and Robertson of Sydney.
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Dorothea Mackellar
M Mackellar
Miss Mackellar
Western Romance Ag District Turns Chalk in From Cheese
A Guy Morton romance set in a timber belt valley details farmers fight against timber king harassment to protect their pines and livelihoods. The novel mixes human sacrifice and dramatic clashes, culminating in the death of the mad hatter and a strong appeal beyond ordinary fear. Ward of the Azure Hills is published by Hodder and Stoughton in London with Australian distribution via Angus and Robertson.
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Agare Hille
Guy Morton
Ward of the Azure Hills
Hodder and Stoughton, Ltd
London
Angus and Robertson, Ltd
Sydney
Harmer Bachelor Friends and the Sex Question in Fiction
A critical piece discusses the novel Harmer Bachelor Friends by Warner Fabian and its treatment of sex and revolution. It argues the book may unsettle morals, spark depressive reactions, and challenge accepted theories, questioning its suitability for general readership.
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Ben J
Warner Fabian
Harmer Bachelora
My Daily Message selection from Millicent Preston Stanley
A brief note on the aphoristic book My Daily Message from Millicent Preston Stanley, drawn from The Daily Telegraph Sydney. The reviewer cites familiar philosophers, practical home philosophy, and wisdom on social and commercial life, praising common sense and clarity while noting some echoes of Elbert Hubbard.
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Millicent Preston Stanley
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Daily Telegraph
Sydney
Elbert Hibbard
The Hut 20 Rides Again by Clarence Mulford
Clarence F Mulford writes another Western tale featuring Johnny Nelson Hopalong Cassidy Tex Willson and Bucketers in The Hut 20 Rides Again. The crew comes out of retirement to trail cattle thieves. The book entertains but lacks the imagination of Mulford’s best work.
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Clarence F. Mulford
Johnny Nelson
Hopolong Cassidy
Tex Ewa't Ete Willson
Mod Connora
Bknny Thompson
Bucketers
Mulford
Hodder and Broughton, Publishers
London
Gur
Bydney
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Legion
Australia
GEO. A. Bond & CO. Ltd
Goulburn
Harry Osborne
Education Department
Clausen
Goulburn Baths
Charles Morse
Metropolitan Theatrical
Indy Ofiera
Alice Daley
H. Strange
Goulburn Corps
Salvation Army
Andrew Faithful Gibson
Dudley William C Gibson
Tirrann
New Zealand
4. Holmes
G. Meredith
S. Stratton
Hope Bartlett
Jack O'Rourke
Ford
Lost River
New South Wales
Town Hall
W. Richardson
McKay
Grimmett
Culhane
H. Webstar
Hog
Kelesel
McMillan
Northcote
Ave Goulburn Cycle Stars
Melbourne
J. Beiffert
D. Cray
J. C. Gunn
Eastlake
Shan
Porrow
the Bookman
Bernard Shaw
Kipling
Walter
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