Rail motor service expands in Queensland towns and suburbs
Queensland announces rail motor service extended to Townsville and Rockhampton and will double routes between Ipswich and Dugendan and Caboolture and Kilcoy. The minister expects rapid expansion, citing suburban use to ease road traffic and rail competition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Queensland
Trans Ork
Met Amd
Townsville
Rockhampton
Ipswich
Dugendan
Wiveen Caboolture
Kilcoy
Board of Trade and Arbitration Court
Curious Sealing Practices and Historic Bank Signs
A mushy miscellany notes how seals are lured by whistling to be harpooned, then surveys old bank signs like the grasshopper crest of Sir Thomas Gresham and the Bank of Liverpool. It mentions sign amalgamations at Barclay's and Bank of London and a ship passing a shark-filled Tasman Sea voyage near Sydney.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dsan
Sydney
Shire-lane
Templetor
Tomtom
House of Hanover
Hous of
Stourt
Godfrey Koeller
Lefoe
Christopher Cult
Bank of England
Bank of Liverpool and
Martin's
Grasshopper
Thomas Gresham
Royal ‘Exchange
Lioyd's
Coutt's
Glyn. Mills and Co
Barclay’s Bank
England's oldest Admiral recalls sea life and Jutland views
Sir Edmund Fremantle, aged ninety one, reflects on his Royal Navy career begun at 13, contrasts past seawork with modern comforts, recalls grog and tobacco, and defends his stance on Jellicoe and the Battle of Jutland amid calls for no controversy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
Edmund Fremantle
Jutland
Jerlicoo
Jellicoe
Sir Edmund Fret
Royal Navy
Jolm
Navy
Plymouth
Mediterranean
Sir William Parker
Nelson
Trafalgar
Spectre Sighted in Birnsbure Church Service
Worshippers at St. Pierre de Jeune in Birnsbure witnessed a sunlit spectre near the altar. The red aureole was a refraction effect from a stained glass window, amplified by a tree branch movement outside, causing the figure to appear and vanish with shifting sunlight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Pierre de Jeune
Birnsbure
Death Through Admiration In Venice
A Russian woman, born in Siberia, traveled to Venice to write music and compose an opera. She feared the constant attention of onlookers on the canals and, disturbed by the admiration, resolved to kill herself rather than continue her work. She confessed this at the police station.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tweed Hell
Atton
Fred Archer
Newmarket
Hamilton Stud
Hamilton Blud Road
Bury St Edmunds
Suffolk
Doris Atking
Venice
Ahe
Siberia
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Canberra
Joe
Canhorra
Thorpes
Thorpes Ltd
Sussex Street
Trl
Lysaght's
Australia
Agends
Ht Brothers di Co., Limited
Bolitt Svu
Mydosia
Darriumoiin River
Mra
H. Sturgeon
Sonny Tina
Saya
Sturegeen
Foster-McClelan Co
Si Dney Doan
Rail Motors
Wille
Snaks
Brittol
Cardiffi
Uerby
Stein
The
Kit-Kat Club
Johannesburg
Africa
Kilpatrick
Capetown
Pikée
Warsaw
Fnally
Junis
Ito Wellington
N.Z
Bydney Heads
G. J. Quey
Imperial Airways
London
Ostend
Oley
Owtend
Britain
Dodd’s Hotel
Cooma
Mia
M. Ryen
Cooma II
Wedien
Chapman
Lifa
ASPRO
Arthur Deyleays
Maite
Bad
Tooka
Neualgia Lumbagu Collus
Austral Box & Timber Coy. Ltd
Abattoir Road
Pyrmont
W. Telephone
Specionek Jnr
New Zealand
Eae
Tost & Rohu
Parkinson
Parkinson, (Ark) Ltd
Noyes Bros
Sydney), Ltd
Clarence Street
Universal Distributing Company, Limited
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