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Newspaper
Charleville Times
Location
Charleville, Queensland, Australia
Date
Feb 09, 1934
Page
6
A new boot repairing shop opens opposite Commonwealth Bank with emphasis on business courtesy and moderate charges. The proprietor invites customers to diary the progress of the venture and attend to services with strict attention to customer needs.
A local Three Towns notice lists mixed farm goods and prices including potatoes onions pumpkins cracked corn whole corn bran pollard and barley feed. Ager village payments referenced Charleville and Charleville area delivery may apply. Contact details show phone number 343 and box 141 Toowoomba.
A period sale list offers Worcestershire Sauce Big Ben Sauces China Cups and Saucers Rice Tomato Sauce and various tins. Enamel and Tin Face Dishes Grooms and jam, currants apricot marmalade and berries, Morrows Christman Cakes Chocolates pads and envelopes. Free delivery between 4 pm and 5 pm Saturday noon to 7 pm.
The article chronicles Ferdinand de Lesseps birth in Versailles and career as a diplomat, his Egypt service, and his lifelong dream of a canal linking the Mediterranean and Red Sea. It covers his struggle with England and Palmerston, support from Said Pasha, early funding, and the canal’s eventual completion in 1869, with honors from France and Britain.
An official statement extols the dam project as the greatest engineering feat, detailing a reservoir holding two years of flow, power capable of supporting 10 million people, and the tallest concrete dam with massive excavations. It covers construction start June 6, tunnel works, and massive plant equipment, with unprecedented safety and health provisions for workers in extreme canyon temperatures.
The Goodyear all weather tread, developed since 1908, celebrates its 36th anniversary this year. Service manager Mr. H L F Tyler notes the design aims to resist skidding from any direction and maintain traction through mud, with self changing grooves between the diamonds.
Mr Tyler cites Goodyear all weather tread seen on cars motor cycles trucks buses aircraft tractors and more. Recent tests show 1H to 19 percent greater resistance to skidding than competing tyre makes.
Bentleigh electrician Eric Dudley Williams appeared at Cheltenham Court on a charge of fraudulently tampering with electricity meters. He was fined £20 and costs. A Melbourne engineer, J. G. Henzell, who spent a year in Russia, says skilled workers there fare poorly compared with England, noting living standards were about a quarter of Australia’s.
A theft at Hickleton Hall Doncaster targets the late Lord Halifax estate during a church service. Priceless family heirlooms and relics valued in thousands were stolen while a police guard and about 70 occupants slept on site.
A caregiver named WeKinnts Liped lifts a sleeping child from a pram as a safety incident unfolds. The incident occurs near the breuhets with the baby unharmed. Local witnesses report no injuries or bites.
A fragmentary weather table from the Charleville Times lists numerous figures and dates across years 1870 to 1998. The garbled OCR shows numerous numeric values, entries, and month markers, with occasional country labels and table annotations as the document attempts to present historical meteorological readings.
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