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Newspaper
Cloncurry Advocate
Location
Cloncurry, Queensland, Australia
Date
Oct 14, 1939
Page
3
The piece discusses allowing young Australian Imperial Force members serving on active duty to join the League without subscription payments. It also considers granting Militia members in uniform honorary League membership at Anzac House to sustain the club’s continuity.
Notice seeking consignments of round grey and red kangaroo skins including round walls, short hair goatskins in lower qualities. No commission charged, deductions for railage and cartage. Terms specify consignments to Garbutts Townsville with stated weights and prices per Ib.
The advertisement offers full stocks of Bg. fencing wire at 17 shillings per cwt and 10 gauge at 18 pence per d. It also promotes Hibiscus Tested High Tension Wire in 1500 yard lots at 25 shillings per cwt or £24 per ton.
A wide column reviews RSSILA Western Australian branch resolutions against sheltering behind patriotic societies during calls for volunteers and urges government action to protect returned soldiers housing and employment. It highlights support for War Service Homes buyers in Army Reserve and cites broader public notices from RSSILA on welfare, retrenchment, and postwar support.
Pierre van Paassen critiques Mussolini in Days of Our Years and Life Digest. He recalls becoming a roving correspondent after fifteen years and notes his outspoken articles for American papers. The critique centers on Mussolini under shellfire and other wartime behavior.
A string of jokes and quips from 1920s humor pages recounting suspects defending minor misdeeds with odd explanations. Alibia George Fhaw, George Tipton, Sam Srawitz, William Murphy, and Lewis Tucker are noted with absurd defenses amid a collection from Time, The Literary Digest, News Week, and other outlets.
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