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Newspaper
Carcoar Chronicle
Location
Carcoar, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Jul 12, 1935
Page
4
A private asked for a two week leave claiming his wife needed help at home. The colonel cites a wife letter saying the man is a nuisance, denying the furlough. Patrick then asks permission to speak and blurts out a risqué confession about being two single mén and not married.
A backward engaging safety spur at the rear of a roller skate engages the surface to prevent falls and also acts as a brake. It is height adjustable via a set screw and designed to be springy to avoid marring floors and to stop the skater smoothly.
The piece warns bathers about the seventh wave being powerful and often followed by two more. It advises inflating lungs, diving low, swimming hard, and staying calm. If cramps or danger occur, swim shoreward or roll onto the back and pull the affected limb. Avoid panicking or improper movements.
A column argues that good health and digestion determine vitality more than wealth. It advises resting ten minutes before meals when tired, avoiding eating when not hungry, limiting meals to three per day, and eating in a well ventilated room to aid digestion.
A humorous excerpt shows a man pressing his tailor about a ten pound debt kept for a year. He demands a yearly account statement under cover of the penny post to protect his honor, while the tailor offers stamps and acknowledges the five postcards.
A writer urges readers to spot potential Edison-like breakthroughs in daily work and local trades. He argues inventions come from attentive observation, cross‑discipline insights, and exploiting inexhaustible raw materials such as weeds and sea water, urging readers to nurture small ideas into future innovations.
A mother praises Tommy as best boy in class while a father urges him to confront Charlie Binks after reports of pinning his sister’s peg leg. Tommy defends his inaction, claiming he was bobbing the dog at the time, revealing his perceived ethical stance in a neighborhood dispute.
An ad style notice markets attar of roses from the Orient at 99 pounds per ounce, noting its guarded preparation and tiny quantities. It warns that violet scents are closely imitated and highlights a new chemical process that makes fake violet extract indistinguishable to experts. Lavender is advertised as home grown.
The sea's saltiness and currents spread tropical heat to cooler regions. Currents arise mainly from differences in specific gravity between seawater and fresh rainwater. When rain falls, denser salt water seeks equilibrium, creating a current.
A novel carnival costume worn at an American harvest festival imitates medieval knight armor. Thousands of maize kernels cover a heavy cloth to resemble a coat of mail. The helmet shield boots leggings and belt follow the same maize pattern with a corn stalk lance.
In Solovetok within Archangel Governorate a fortress monastery rises with granite walls nearly a mile in circumference. Six churches house statues and gems while round and square towers of thirty feet guard its stronghold. Guns line the walls once aimed at the British White Sea Squadron during the Crimean War. Ten thousand pilgrims visit yearly by steamship run by monks to view relics.
A 6000 year old physician served at a Fifth Dynasty Pharaoh’s court. The ruler ordered stone slabs for the physician’s tomb, while the wife’s name was erased. Nubian splints matched modern practice with reef knots and perpendicular folds, palm fibre replacing cotton wool, and fine linen substituting game.
A remote 2000 acre island near Oxford is owned by the university and home to a sparse community of shepherds and their families. Winter mud and a dangerous ferry keep residents largely cut off with no motorcars. The island’s two landmarks are a small school and church. Signal ferrymen by opening a hut door or by a lit candle at night.
A practical father counsels his ten year old to count to one hundred and then repeat, hoping sleep will come. A vole whispers a question about trillions as the boy steadies his mind. The piece links hope to character and the changing nature of human affairs.
In El Cobre Cuba a long-abandoned copper mine yielded an iron pick and crow bars turned into copper by dissolution. Water and sulfuric acid dissolved iron and redeposited copper, leaving impurities and a preserved wooden handle on the axe.
Buffon hosted savants who found a glass globe warmed on the sunny side. A heated debate followed about physics laws while a gardener offered a simple truth. The globe stayed warm toward the sun, the gardener quipped, fearing it might crack from the heat.
The text discusses royal prerogatives and the King's broad powers in crisis times. It notes that legally the King could disband the Army sell Navy vessels dismiss civil servants declare war or make peace by fiat. It adds that inmates could be released and pardoned by signature and that the King could elevate anyone to peerage and govern dominions, with the ultimate prerogative that the King can do no wrong.
A colonel advertised for a capable manservant in a local weekly. Irish applicant Murphy enters and asks about soil quality, joking that if the soil is good he might make bricks in his spare time. The colonel explains duties include cooking, driving, horse care, boot and window cleaning, poultry, milking, and minor painting and paper hanging.
The defendant’s attorney claims the plaintiff promised to burn every letter received from him after reading them. The judge questions why she would respond. The plaintiff says she kept the letters unread to avoid breaking her word, suggesting their possible usefulness later.
The article describes how in Japan fans serve as a signaling language in wrestling and fencing. It notes a servant girl uses a flat rough paper fan as a dust-pan or to blow coal, a farmer uses a fan to winnow grain, and a waterproof paper fan provides cooling by evaporation.
A grocer hired a boy and began a long morning lecture on cleanliness. The boy listened, but when the grocer paused to swat a fly, the boy interrupted, noting the man discarded a fly on the sugar. The boy used the moment to escape while the grocer recovered.
A Scottish landlord greets a tenant on the road with polite concern. John replies in broad Scots, noting rheumatism in his knee while joking about aging. The landlord remarks that age comes for all, prompting further humorous banter about aging and mobility.
A sedate Quaker mixes green and red outfits unaware of colour blindness. Reports explain fulgurites formed by lightning striking sand, glass tubes found in Little Ararat, and gun cotton production from cotton waste treated with acids. Also details a cheap home barometer using camphor and nitrates and warns of wind indicators in the liquid.
An Englishwoman patented a clever hairpin design after testing a lever action on a window. By bending and turning the pin’s points she created a secure, unreleasable pin. At her death she earned between £500 and £1,000 yearly from royalties and related patents.
In a tense family scene seven year old Billy, noted for timidity, faces a dentist appointment to have a tooth cut. His mother urges courage while his father and brother push him to endure the prick of the needle, framing it as a test of pluck.
A woman hurries along the street and chats with a friend about rushing to see Professor Ast-Omer. The talk centers on astronomy and sun spots, with plans to attend his lecture and learn a recipe for freckles.
At breakfast the mother recalls overhearing a kiss near the drawing-room door and scolds her eighteen year old daughter for being kissed before marriage while the daughter pleads she wishes to be kissed someday.
In Havana factories a dedicated factory reader is employed by cigarmakers who fund his reading. He reads aloud as workers toil and the cigarmakers favor literature over trash, preferring Don Quixote or Shakespeare, with occasional Spanish romances.
A short piece describes four year old Harry with many ideas and an inquisitive aunt questioning him. When asked what he wants to be when grown, he answers a man who isn’t always asking silly questions.
The scene centers on a golf mishap where a ball struck a lady's hat, provoking anger from the lady and embarrassment for the golfer. A bystander asks why he did not warn, the golfer claims he did yell Fore, and a witty reply questions the value of shouting Fore at a lady. The piece ends with a moral note on avarice as a tomb of passions.
A collage of jokes and brief anecdotes from Harper's and Washington Star style pieces features light humor about romance, travel, and public life. It playfuly notes misunderstandings, witty exchanges, and curious misfires across social scenes and familiar settings.
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