Mysterious shooting at racecourse ends with arrest
Walter Joseph was charged with maliciously shooting George Williams at Konemgton racecourse while Williams purchased four pony meeting tickets. Witnesses reported a sudden gunfire and Williams collapsing. Joseph was detained and remanded after the incident.
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Sydney
Wedneming
Williams
Watterloo
Konemgton
Witelan
Cord
Heart Attork
Romith
St. Wier
Uae
Ennipee
Courant
Walker
Owen
Lee
Walter Joseph
George Williams
New Automotive Features Transform Driving Roles
A fragmented account outlines advances in closed bodies, balloon tyres, and gear changing devices, noting how these innovations expanded driving accessibility for women and improved comfort and control. The piece highlights chromium parts and wheel drive concepts being tested by leading firms in America and Western Europe, signaling a shift in design priorities.
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M and
Americ
Union Leaders Evidence in Trial
Fragmentary OCR yields a political trial note with mentions of union leaders and conspiracy. Names like Wimcoe Justices Sopher Tully and Kos Tuner appear amid a discussion of workmen, permission, and possible adjournment with violence avoided.
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Sydney
Alany
Elrike Wimcoe
Sopher Tully
Sydney shooting shock as billet crashes through shop
A brief report from Sydney notes a shooting incident near a store. A projectile struck the premises shortly after noon today, injuring or narrowly missing occupants. Police investigations are underway with no immediate suspect details released.
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Sydney
Nin
Ihe
Canberra Musical Society's Fourth Concert Delighted Audience
The Canberra Musical Society presented a varied program at Albert Hall last night featuring Hazel Wil HT, a popular baritone, whose performance received enthusiastic applause. The orchestra showed uneven balance but excelled in Sibelius and the finale, while Schubert’s symphony drew mixed reactions for wind-missings.
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Canberra
Hazel Wil
Albert Hall
Ells Heath
Willy
Davies
Wile Viamis
Senea
Industrial Exhibition Struggles Show Growth Despite Hurdles
The report details progress at a major industries fair with new construction and steel works. It notes 900 workers, 44 engineers, and ongoing stone and concrete tasks, including reinforced sections and a ceremonial hub opening by local figures.
Fire in Auburn South School Sends Pupils Out
A fire broke out in a classroom at Auburn South School today. About 150 students exited in order as fire brigades arrived and fought the blaze. A boy, Charles Gibbs, reentered to save a ruler, then collapsed after escape.
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Bydley
Auburn South
Ullic School
Charles Gibbs
Power of snake venom in cold blooded animals debated
A fragmentary science note asserts venom may affect cold blooded creatures while some toads lizard and fish survive puff adder or cobra bites. The text describes frogs dying quickly and mentions wartime venom tests with certain snakes, but the report is garbled and unclear on reliable conclusions.
Prevention of Rust in Machinery Storeage
Studies at the National Washed Laboratory examined inhibitors for preserving steel machinery. Findings favor certain corrosion inhibitors over pastes, with ongoing life tests at engineering panels to assess long term safety and cost.
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Lin Borhines
Caroga
Sohwthon
Paper milk bottles may soon replace glass on dairies
A North London dairy farm unveils a new machine that forms milk into paper bottles, coats them in boiling wax, fills with milk, seals, then sends to delivery. The process, printed with the company name, yields hygienic single use containers that dissolve after use and prevent germ growth.
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vMtomer
London
Extraordinary Proposal At The Institution Of Civil Engineers
At a meeting of the Institution of Civil Engineers an extraordinary proposal for generating power was discussed. J da Hodgson suggested a scheme to divert sea water from the Mediterranean, lowering its level and allowing a surge from the Atlantic to power turbines. He claimed a potential gain of about a thousand million horsepower, enough to alter global power capacity, if a ten mile wide sea barrier could be built and water forced through the straits into the Mediterranean.
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Institution of ‘Civil Engineers
Cie
J. da. Hodgson
Mediterranean
Mr. Hodgson
Heigeon
Gwwr
Mediterramoran
Deadly toxin discussed at sanitation conference
Professor Leonard Mil of the National Institute for Medical Research warned at the Sanitary Inspectors Association conference about a new deadly toxin from an undisclosed highly potent organism. He noted it could be inhaled or contact the eye and speculated on the waste of war spending versus funding disease prevention.
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Sanitary Inspectors’ Association
Leonard Mil
National Institute For Medical Research
Hydrogen Not An Element Claims Breakthrough At Minne SOL Meeting
The American Chemical Society session at the University of Minnesota featured Prof K J Bonhoeffer showing hydrogen as a mixture rather than a true element. Lt Hugh Taylor cited the demonstration as the year’s greatest chemical achievement amid debates on wave mechanics and molecular behavior.
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American Chemical Society
University of Minne-Sol
Dennison
K. J. Bonhoeffer
Germany
Hugh 4. Taylor
Royal Boviety
Irving Longemuir
Professor Bonhoeffern Denmonstration
Morylinder
Days for Holiday Makers Across the World
England has six official public holidays and ranks among the nations with fewer holidays. Canada offers eleven, Queensland eighteen including royal commemorations, while New York lists ten. Germany France and Italy follow with twelve fourteen and an unclear note. Switzerland sixteen and Yugoslavia reportedly fewer than forty.
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England
Canada
Anuinet
Queensland
New York
Germany
France
Italy
Switzerland
Jugoslavia
Record Weight Bride Marries Living Skeleton in Edmonton
A 36 stone 11 pound bride known as America’s Musical Fat Girl named Jolly Hertha Cilley wed Gerald Lindsof billed as the World’s Beat Living Skeleton weighing Gat bib at Edmonton Registry Office Alberta. There was no tailval in Edmonton.
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Jolly Hertha” Cilley
Gerald Lindsof
Edmonton
Alberta
Link Traces Briand Ancestry to Irish Roots
Irish interests spotlight M Briand the tenth French prime minister born in Nantes. Briand’s great grandfather Cornel Briand was an Irish immigrant who settled at Finisterre then moved to Nantes. Bretons claim Briand inherits Brian Boru lineage through Cowell alleged descent.
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Ireland
M. Aristide Briand
France
Nantes
M. Briand
Conell Briand
Finisterre
Cowell
Iereat
Brian Boru
Registrar Chooses Grand Gesture For Wedding Return
The registrar, with a car door oversized for the bride, drives the newlyweds back to the fair ground, turning a simple ceremony into a memorable moment of courtesy and theater.
Out of date blackboards replaced by lit rear projection
The old type blackboard is hard to illuminate so all the room can see it. The ground is illuminated from the rear, making chalked writings visible from all parts of the room.
Piccadilly Hotel Hosts Banquet for Theatre Delegation
A party of theatre figures dined at the Piccadilly Hotel and toured the hotel as part of a formal arranged trip. Attendees included Sir Set ton Brackner Mir Godfrey Paine and Mr Cochran from the Pavilion Theatre, with directors and hospitality staff present.
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Piccadilly
Paria
Bona
Setton Brackner
Mir Godfrey Paine
Cochran
Pavilion Theatre
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