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Newspaper
Canberra Times
Location
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Date
Sep 28, 1929
Page
6
A jumble of handwritten youth letters and poems from Benior Division, including Dimity Hell a Maid of Athens and Erle Gage entries. Notes on schoolwork, pets, kittens, a white pony, a parrot, a swallow’s nest, and daily life share hopes, worries, and thanks to comrades and mentors.
A garbled OCR page features letters from Dimity Dell White Mont Cordas Atalanta Avon and friends. The notes discuss exams, pets like a pony, spring gardens, Canberra and Canberra’s river view, family greetings, birthday wishes, and school activities. Several girls describe home life and town scenes, with cordial updates on enrolment cards and weather.
A note lists wishes for Lucy Latey aged 11 celebrating her birthday on September 29 and Danl Calthorpe aged 11 slated to have a birthday the following day September 29, highlighting their ages and the September birthday context.
A fragmented dawn tale follows a thrush and a fairy herald as the newborn day struggles to emerge from a rosy shell. The thrush contemplates saving the day’s birth for his mate’s nest, while the herald orders the fragile shell dropped and the day fully breaks.
An OCR fragment blends a mythic dawn scene with a long, unclear birthday notice and list of names. The text mixes bird imagery and a ceremonial event at Kingston with partial names and a quirky verse, ending in a jagged roster of attendees and speakers.
Fragmentary OCR text lists racing or meet items with unclear names and numbers, including mentions of a person Moe age and a date Maye, plus cryptic references to weights, lanes, and a single number 6.4045 and a girl count. The readable entities are insufficient for a coherent event summary.
A playful rules item describes merit cards: blue cards worth three pink cards, pink worth four white cards, and when three blue cards are earned their equivalent in other colors is sent to Disney Call for a prize. The language shows misspellings and quirked phrasing typical of old reader prompts.
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