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Newspaper
Cobram Courier
Location
Cobram, Victoria, Australia
Date
Apr 27, 1922
Page
2
Fragmentary OCR text shows scattered phrases about a dance or figure Cupid's Dancer, with garbled lines and incomplete sentences. The readable bits hint at a poetic or lyric fragment with references to earth, love, and a distant scene, but no clear event, date, person, or location emerges.
A confused note contrasts British and American billion definitions. It explains the long scale term of one followed by twelve zeros and the short scale term of one followed by nine zeros, noting differences in historical usage and regional terminology.
A speaker recounts a family tale about Polly a two year old girl who vanished near woods then reappeared wrapped in a bonnet. Wolves raid a hidden log pile uncover a leg and attack a young girl. The tale shifts to a panther encounter and ends with a boast about Polly's boldness and survival.
A fragmented OCR list shows numerous subscriber names and addresses across Cobram Cobram Hotel and surrounding towns. Items include stores, hotels, bakeries, estate firms, hospitals, builders, and professional services with street references such as High Street Main Street Punt Road and Sydney Street, indicating a community-wide subscription roster.
A damaged OCR style note describes a calculation for tank excavation size using top and bottom areas, middle area, depth, and conversion factors. It mentions numbers like 60 by 604900 for top area and 20 by 20 for bottom area, with depths and slopes, aiming to obtain cubic feet and ultimately cubic yards. The text is fragmented and inconsistent but centers on dimensional measurement of a tank and its bottom breadth and length after subtracting slopes from a BOM base.
The readable fragments discuss stack measurement and a calculation task but are incomplete. It mentions length averages, perpendicular sods, and multiplying areas by half the ridge. The source is too garbled to identify people, places, or concrete facts.
Cobram Directory describes Tongamah Shire details, districts, and governance. It lists boundaries, ridings, names, and dates from 1878 to 1905, with electors, representatives, and council officers. Also notes the Cobram waterworks trust meeting dates and key staff roles.
Cobram Court of Petty Sessions meets Tuesdays and Fridays for ordinary business. The police magistrate Mr C Rogers attends monthly. Clerk of Courts-Constable R Johnson. Local Justice Dr J T Kennedy and committee members James Grant, Thon, Naughton, A Rows FF, Browne. Cobram Waterworks Trust meets every second month. Chairman JP Orr and members Stokes Wadeson Parnell J Ryan Martindale noted.
A long fragmented roster of civic groups, religious bodies, clubs, committees, and public posts is cataloged with leaders, secretaries, and roles such as Agricultural Society, Mechanics Institute, Victorian Farmers Union, Fire Brigade, Brass Band, and various school, sports, and political associations. The document reads as a roll call of officers and titles from multiple organizations led by named individuals.
A dense OCR listing details numerous local bodies and officials across banks churches schools clubs and associations. Items include bank managers post office roles hospital and educational staff and club presidents with secretaries and officers noted for workers agricultural show social orders and religious groups.
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