Printers Quarters Defeat Simmie's Eleven In Return Cricket Match
Printers Quarters overcame Simmie’s Eleven in a return match after batting first. Culbert and Strahan forged a record partnership, with Horan again among the scorers for Printers Quarters. Guest and Stansfield took key wickets as Simmie’s fell short despite notable efforts from Horan and O’Halloran.
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Printers Quarters
Simmie
Printers
Ate
Culbert
Strahan
Horan
Simmie’s
Morrie Guest
Eastlake Football Club
Rye
XL Horan
Mt Dorman
Howard
Hennah
O'Halloran
Donaldson
Stansfield
Tawis
Rickman
Stansfield ~ Lander
Lalor
O Gellatly
Traynor
Lynch
Amazing Machines Marvels of Electricity at Schoolboys' Exhibition
At the New Horticultural Hall in London Major Raymond Phillips demonstrates electric marvels. A “will power” pendulum, vitality gauges, and a humanoid device measure electricity in the body. Children register more energy than adults, and boys supposedly have more vitality than girls.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Horticultural Hall
West Maineter
London
Raymond Phillips
Phillips
Happer
Fireproof Rubber Promises Safer Electrical Insulation
Chattier researchers announce a new wax based fireproof rubber material that when mixed with rubber forms a flame resisting insulation for electrical wires. The wax also serves to impregnate wood and treat fabrics to resist fire, insects, and weather, offering a tougher coating for cables and boards.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fabrice
Ing
Emperor's Voice in Budapest Speech Reported
A fragmented clipping notes an emperor figure speaking via gramophone in Budapest amid parliamentary contexts. It mentions Francia Jeomph and suggests a ceremonial or propaganda setting, with uncertain transcription of key phrases. An unclear reference to an emperor’s voice echoes through the page.
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Gramophone
Francia
Monks of Mount Athos Face Possible Closure by Greece
Reports from Athens say Greece contemplates shutting down Mount Athos monasteries after a thousand years of independence. Financial strain from Soviet actions and tourism decline push the regime to end the autonomous republic of monks, who devote themselves to farming, beekeeping, and winemaking in austere, genderless seclusion.
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Athens
Mount Athos
Russia
Pantaleimun
Nave
Aegean
St. Laura
Leo VI
Byzantium
Protos
The
Athos
Monasteries on Sacred Mountain Face Diminishing Pilgrim Life
The Sacred Mountain cloisters, once rich with Greek and Balkan pilgrims, faced decline after 1918 due to Greek military setbacks and Bolshevik rule. Penitents and donations dwindled as monastic life shrank, threatening to erase a historic religious republic and Europe’s last relic of antiquity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greece
Stamboul
Stephen Nemanja
Saint Save
Berbia
Mecca
Blav
Asia Minnor
Asia
Les
Aise
Europe
Make the Best Cough Remedy and Save Money
An unusual ad claims wine folk save money making their own cough and influenza remedy with HEENZO. It promises a bottle costs two abillings and is superior to ordinary remedies for coughs colds croup bronchitis influenza and whooping cough. It cites over one million annual sales and urges ordering from a chemist or store now.
Debating Cooma Defeats Canberra ANA in Debate
In Cooma last Friday the Canberra ANA and Cooma Literary and Debating Society clashed over whether political salvation lies in government by dictatorship. Cooma won 244 to 241, with judges awarding victory to the Cooma team led by H. Jacobs D. Seeton and A. Bennett.
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Cooma
Canberra A.N.A
Messrs. H. Jacobs
D. Seeton
A. Bennett
Canberra
Carmody
Knott
Italy
Mussolini
Goa
Mr. McFadyen
NEW COTTAGES Help Housing Programme Progress
Canbarra housing drive continues with six brick residences contracted at Reid section 4. C Banks of Mugga won. A Mabbot of Braddon secured a meter house at Black Mountain. Minister Paterson noted Gov cottages kept up with more work. external painting awarded to P G and H Kelly at Yarralamis and to A H Foster for mine houses at Yarralam.
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Canbarra
Reid
C. Banks
Mugga
A. Mabbot
Braddon
Black Mountain
T. Paterson
Interior
Messrs
P. G
4. H. Kelly
Yarralamis
A. H. Foster
Yarralam
March of Science Centenaries Recall Robe rt Hooke and Contemporaries
A 1935 column surveys centenaries in science, highlighting Robert Hooke born 1685 and died 1708, his roles at the Royal Society and Gresham College, and noting contemporaries Johann Becher and Christoph Sturm who advanced early modern science and education in Germany.
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Royal Society
EF. C. Smith
Nature
Robert Hooke
Westminster
Christ Church, Oxford
Society
Gresham College
Gresham
London
Hooke
St. Helen's Church
Wishopgate
Johann Becher
Christoph Sturm
Becher
England
Bturm
Eer
Altdort
Germany
Talking Book for Blind Readers Expands Access
A talking book project aims to help 120,000 visually impaired individuals by providing 30 minute recordings. Central library plans to supply about ten records per user with gospel, psalms, Ancient Mariner, Shakespeare, and modern novels. Expected 2500 units soon.
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Simmie's
Wharton
Lalor Culbert
Horan Strahan
Ford
Lator
Extrez
Dorman
Bas
Guest
Gough
Amazing Machines
Monks OF
ST. Athos
Republic OF Recluses
Epsilin
Christ
ANA
March OF Science
Grace Bros. Ltd
Sydney
HOTEL
Wellington
Cengiltela
Grace Bros. Express
Car
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