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Newspaper
Canberra Times
Location
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Date
Jun 10, 1927
Page
8
A garbled OCR snippet shows names and places linked to a Yass area hairdressing listing. The fragment mentions Westel and Horton's Hairdressing in Salam and Moore Hyon with unclear context or dates.
Mrs. Drew of 29 Briggs Street Camperdown Sydney reports severe kidney and edema symptoms followed by complete cure after using Donn’s Backache Kidney Pills. She notes seven bottles cured her and five years later no recurrence. Mr. Drew confirms no return of the prior illness in over five years since treatment.
A long mixed fragment discusses stellar distances via triangulation and brightness differences, then shifts to a Brisbane meeting launching a new Choral society, social opinions on jazz, a psychology anecdote about childhood phobias, and a remarkable freemasonry lodge claim, concluding with a detonator accident in Tagalpa and a New York hotel fire context.
The article describes a new X ray apparatus enabling instantaneous photographs in a thousandth of a second, reducing exposure times from minutes to seconds for sharper medical images. It also details Leicester City Fire Brigade plans for a large jet firefighting engine with integrated water tower pump and searchlight. The piece mentions the Guildhall Museum’s exhibits across historical periods, clockmaking at St Paula Cathedral, and a Times discussion on the first silk hat worn in London in 1797.
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