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Newspaper
Charleville Times
Location
Charleville, Queensland, Australia
Date
Nov 29, 1935
Page
5
The fragment contains multiple cricket like bowling totals for teams with players such as Longwill, Jenkins, Mallory and Marks, plus notes on fall of wickets. It also includes a curious non sequitur about oiled shells and a Dutch merchant’s teeth lost at a 7000 ft summit, ending with an improbable recovery.
The Morven Beared Nursing Association held its sixth annual meeting in Morven School room. President Mr Rett Polard presented his annual report beside a balance sheet and urged residents to attend meetings to support benefits of the association. Mr A Adams left the district. Mr P Lord was re elected president with officers and committees returning unchanged except Sergeant Foley replacing Sergeant Adams.
At Charneville Town Council, a letter to St Marys Convent read that damage from a recent dance was caused while the town hall was hired. The mayor and Alderman debated who should recover costs, noting tenants must be aware of hall conditions. Council tabled the matter. National Physical Laboratory notes: fourteen thousand four hundred times to an inch.
An American correspondent questions Britain’s control of India citing 60,100 British troops and 150,000 Indian troops with 1,905,090 square miles under rule, arguing India is held more by a toothpick than a sword. The piece also notes Moscow’s Theatre for the Deaf and Burnish presents gestures for all lines.
Attendance marked the meeting as closed with district thanks to Mr Lord for long service to the Morven centre. Committeemen and secretary were praised for their unpaid efforts on behalf of the BMA.
Popular Mechanics describes Otto F H Mohr’s solar refrigeration device using ammonia water in a generator and a glass sphere to absorb and release ammonia vapor. When sun heats the sphere, ammonia is driven as vapor and condensed in a receiver. as the sun cools, the generator absorbs vapor, cooling the refrigerator chamber. Different sphere sizes can fit various refrigerator scales.
A 12 to 18 year old test on iron embedded in concrete from a Pars commercial building erected in 1852 shows the concrete mix of resinent gravel and lime in 1 to 1 to 5 proportions with small gravel. The 2- inch deep reinforcement beams were hollowed a decade and a half ago and refilled with concrete, and the structure remains in good condition. Also notes an Australian telephone service dating from IS, OF 4N7.
A London branch messenger for an English bank waited an hour for a Malian bank clerk and quipped that the staff must speed up now that they face a hypothetical Bank of Abytemia takeover. The tale ends with a garbled line about trunks and a British bank demanding.
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