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Newspaper
Cobram Courier
Location
Cobram, Victoria, Australia
Date
Apr 22, 1926
Page
2
Irregular OCR shows a long street level catalog of people places and businesses tied to an auction event. The readable items include names such as Bako Street A Coy and Unilazder Co. with scattered addresses and hospital mentions. The fragment lacks a coherent narrative and concrete sale details.
A partially readable note discusses tank area measurements and tank dimensions. It mentions a burred notation about tank width and length, a ratio for safe clearance, and a proposed proportion for stability. Elements include a 40 by 10 base reference and a 20 percent reserve.
Spices once equaled gold for Europeans due to hard picking and distant sources. In late antiquity pepper fetched extraordinary sums, with early dealer groups forming. Venice and Portugal vied for Far East cargoes as explorers like Columbus and da Gama shaped spice routes. The Dutch and later British and German powers shifted dominance across centuries.
The article explains how to deter clothes moths by sealing garments in airtight containers, avoiding cheap wool and using cleaner fabrics. It notes moths target greasy spots on wool, especially lapels, trouser sides, and dress necks, and that larvae eat the fabric after ingesting residual oils and finishes.
Ordinary black pencils exist in over fifty varieties with varied leads for trade marks and special uses. Some pencils are designed to write on polished metals porcelain and patent leather with erasable leads. A surgeon’s pencil marks skin during operations, unlike ordinary pencils.
The 1878 Tungamah Shire creation lists parishes and ridings with divisions to Yarrawonga and Cobram areas. It notes population 6468, prominent figures like Robert Cook and W. Hill, and outlines council officers, meeting cadence, and local services. Cobram on the Murray is described with infrastructure including water, electric power, railway terminus, mills, shops, and institutions.
Cobram Court of Feity Sessions lists Tuesday sittings with clerks and local justices named. Cobram Waterworks Trust and multiple clubs including cricket, football, bowling, and golf outline officers and secretaries.
Fragmentary OCR lists various public bodies and club roles including directors, secretaries, and attendees. Names such as Charlee-Charwhot Begoy, H. Sidebottut, J. Hughes, J. Allert appear along with references to electoral registrars, school committees, lodges, race clubs, and farmers associations. The piece reads as a catalog of positions rather than a cohesive event.
The text describes estimating a stack's contents by a method using average width between caves and the product with the ground to the eaves to compute area and height to the ridge. It emphasizes accurate calculation from one casculating to cubiclovt and mentions buttressing measurements.
Postal listing of suburbs and areas around Melbourne with scattered place names such as Abbotfond Glen Ine Alphington Armadale Vale Auburn Mother Mabey Leutes Black Heck Braybrock Malvern Brighton Martyrnong Burnley Mount Albert Qambeewell Moauer Por Monee Valley Geelton Marrabbi Carlton North Port Melbourne Prahran Richmond Sandringham Melbourne South Yarra and others. The fragmented text shows a sequence of suburbs and related addresses or routing cues without coherent narrative.
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