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Newspaper
Cobram Courier
Location
Cobram, Victoria, Australia
Date
Apr 16, 1931
Page
2
An unclear transcript outlines subsidies and censorship issues affecting Paramount’s operations. The piece mentions executives in Paris Berlin and other cities, noting reactions to film content and international distribution. Names and exact details are garbled, but the focus centers on policy shifts influencing production and exhibition.
A fragmented, hard to read reminiscence describes garbled kitchen phrases and a puzzled community. It references a Stak and Geese, a Ramsbeevied event, and Eric Tens of Swelsn with soldiers, hinting at a culinary mystery tied to sanitation and cooking a goose for Pit to fet Piteing.
Fragmentary account credits ancient Chinese innovations including the compass paper printing glass seismograph and a form of modern medicine. It notes early versus later dates and mentions materials and instruments whose details are incomplete due to the damaged text.
A grandmother describes how her grandson bears a striking likeness to his father, noting his eyes nose and mouth. The exchange ends with a wry remark about trousers, capturing a quiet domestic moment.
The notice lists revised postage rates per ounce and per item for various classes and routes within the Commonwealth. It covers letters, second and third class mail, commercial papers, printed papers, and small packets, detailing charges to British Empire outposts, islands like Lord Howe, Norfolk, and Torres, and to foreign destinations, with minimums and weight-based scales.
Rates for trunk line telephone use outlined by Postmaster Me ZL A D O Connor. Rate A sets a charge of 2d for local plant use and applies to trunk line calls above noted connections.
Local club notes list officers including president W Millerich of Football Club and secretary D O Dwyer. Mentions Cobram Packing, Cobram Mackaries Institute, Cobram Teneut Club with a series of secretary and president roles and affiliations.
An OCR fragment catalogs various organizations and officers including a bank manager, mechanics' institute president, mutual improvement society leader, hospital demonstration president, and church and lodge heads. The text names individuals such as J Eddy, J Bugneesweer, JG Mradstreet, A 2eTane, and E Ellgour among others, with scattered references to clubs and associations like a race club and tennis club.
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