Post Office Facilities Improve Express Mail Service
The Beachy Director of Posts and Telegraph reports a complete remodel of urgent mail delivery by the Port master-General’s Department. The scheme extends delivery radius to 7 miles, offers after hours service and Sunday delivery at chief offices, raises weight limits, shifts to a flat express fee, lowers local delivery charges, and introduces a collection service and special messenger transfers to speed delivery to suburban offices starting Tuesday, October 1.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beachy
Posts and Telegraph
Portmaster-General’s Department
Ie Department
Pew
Office of Delivers
Office of Delivery
G.P.O
Toree
Vine Care Aims to Save 164 Year Old Ramona Vine
Experts applied trea surgery to a grape vine at San Gabriel California to save the 164 year old Ramona Vine from death caused by dead wood and termite attacks. The central stem is trunk sized and the arbor supports half an acre, drawing thousands of tourists annually.
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San Gabriel
California
Wool Market Aspects And Australian Imports Drop
Variations in wool prices and demand over three weeks reflect a strong Australian staple impact. Imports in early 1936 show 214 million lbs, 35 million below 1934, with Australian direct imports down 75 percent but African and Argentine totals up. Consumption shifts vary, underscoring cautious optimism about 1936 outcomes amid steady epic supplies. New Zealand expects slightly higher shear and ends year with 188 000 units.
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Knellich
Jopanvos
Continent
Greatitalin
Japan
Germany
Argentina
New Zealand
The Speech That Never Was Finished Speech
An unruly audience at a meeting erupts as Mr Pitt challenges decorum while Mr Lede demands order. The chairman declares the session closed and exits. Some booed, others applauded, and the crowd slowly dispersed after a tense confrontation.
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Atherton
Argne
Logan
Mr. Pitt
Mr. Lede
Arcent
Mr. Lechie
Hack
Wool prices and crossbred tops in Bradford market
The report notes crossbred tops remain slightly cheaper than last year with 65 fine crossbred tops at Bradford at 15d and 50s for medium tops 14fd per lb above September 1934 figures. Merino tops show declines. Milling crossbreds show demand, while military uniform needs limit supply. Japanese wool consumption is rising, with projections of 400 months annually in ten years. Wool sales schedules and forthcoming auctions detailed.
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Hom Oupcold
Bradford
Japan
Grmany
eVritte
Winchcombe
Carcon
Brisbane
German man seeks English roots to save job in fear of Jew stigma
A German man in Brighton pursued proof his mother was English to avoid charges of Jewish extraction after neighbors accused him of lack of faith. He visited the Brighton registrar and obtained a certificate of his grandmother's name, then returned to Germany to shield his livelihood, according to the Daily Herald.
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Brighton
Sarah Thislady
Naals
England
Church of England
Germany
Lomdom
Strange People of Bhutan Fact or Fable
A lurid travel aside claims Bhutan hosts a strange people beyond Assam. It describes their clothes from nettle fabric and brutal rites of executing criminals by sewing them in bullock skins and tossing them into a river.
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Bhutan
Assam
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Travel Service
Commonwealth Savings Baok
Ami
Commonwealth Savings Bank of Australia
Prim B Raopucers Co-Opel Association Wool Brokers
Ind
Connamulla
Alman
Mowmas
R. Lunn
Lister
Carsen Ltd
Vieckesien't
Wool Market Aspects
Chawman
Bimbo
Mutt Cyne
Wera
Charleville Times
The
Yast South
Queensland
Pam Quares
Poe
the Charleville Times Pty. Ltd
Queen Street
Risbane Townsville
Sydney
Melbourne
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