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Newspaper
Cobram Courier
Location
Cobram, Victoria, Australia
Date
Apr 24, 1924
Page
2
A historical account describes naval salutes and ceremonies aboard ships with captains, ensigns, and crew performing formal duties. It notes the ritual of reporting, the captain's greeting, and the ceremonial acts marking ship departures and arrivals.
A garbled OCR passage imitates a reading of a broadcast or performance, with stray fragments describing listening, music, and performance cues. It mentions noise, voices, elements of rhythm, and a chaotic stream of words that resemble a transcript or rehearsal notes rather than a coherent article.
A list of subscribers and charges for the Cobram Telephone Exchange includes individuals and local businesses such as Campbell & Co Punt Road, Cobram Hotel, Grand Centre Hotel, Cobram Station, and private residences. Fees cover continuous service, messenger fees, water trust pumping, and public telephony use.
A brief notice highlights sale items at the Gourer Office offering good envelopes and inexpensive writing pads for customers. The listing emphasizes affordable stationery and convenient purchasing options.
Cobram and District form the richest part of Shire of Tungamah with cereal farming stock raising and diverse fruit industries. Cobram sits on the Murray near Melbourne 1964 miles away and is a railway terminus with water light power and mills, shops and institutions. The text outlines the Tungamah Shire creation May 15 1878 subdivisions, name changes, riding boundaries 1893 1901 and administrative lists including Commonwealth Division representatives state electoral district details Shire Council officials and staff and the Tungamah Waterworks Trust meeting dates and council composition.
Cobram Court of Petty sits on Tumdaye and Bridage for ordnary business. Police magistrate Te C74 Wogert attends. Clerk of Court Onastabla B. Johnson. Local Justice Masere Dr. T. A Jame Grant T. Naughtoo P. Holoreest ALA Wadeon B. A. Boott and W. Ades listed. Cobram Waterworks Trust noted.
A compiled roster of local organizations with presidents secretaries and officers including M D O Dwyer Cobram Branch Vietorian Farmers Union and J G Martindale A W A Lodge secretary L Hamilton and W Penmaster D Progress Association secretary Mrs Grant head teacher Mrs Mitchell and multiple club leaders such as Croquet Bowling Race Football and Fruitgrowers associations.
A survey of local groups and officeholders including banks, savings agencies, a mutual improvement association, churches, justices of the peace, constable, electoral registrars, school committee, and clubs. It lists presidents secretaries and key officers such as A W Bike, I Stavens, J Bradstreet, W Biggine, M Hughes, J Beadnetreet, Rev W J Chesterfield, Rev J Penns, Father Ellis, A Taylor, and others across civic, cultural, and social organizations.
The text outlines a calculation for tank volume by summing top and bottom areas and four times the middle areas, dividing by six, then multiplying by depth. It includes messy figures and says 40 p 00 BC sow, with top area 60 ft by unknown breadth, depth 10 ft, and slopes of 2 to 1 on three sides and 4 to 1 on the roadway. It describes subtracting breadth and adjusting length after slopes to obtain bottom dimensions.
A fragment outlines a method to compute volume by multiplying stack length and average width, then multiplying by height. It also mentions deriving height from a measured cubic contents of a truss and pertains to a toy and cave reference.
Addressing letters to the Melbourne suburbs requires the correct Portal district number. The numbers are as follows.
A string of curious tales shows fortunes found by luck in unlikely hides. A dying man left safe money under fire grate. a kettle in a Southampton rubbish heap revealed an old lady’s will. a Birmingham bookseller stalls led a son to his father’s hundred pounds. A New York doctor unearthed shares worth about £100000 in a library book. A pair of North London workmen found counterfeit notes in a demolished house. A Midlands man hid his will in a note between papers, finally discovered. Coins hidden in earthenware pots in France totaled over ten thousand pounds.
The article discusses animal courage, noting the house fly’s persistence despite smoke, the lion’s reputation, and the rat’s bold defense when cornered. It recounts a North Wales incident with weasels attacking a girl, and contrasts maternal fearlessness with old British bulldog and wild boar traits, ending with hunting bravado and a stray courtroom joke.
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