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Newspaper
Cobram Courier
Location
Cobram, Victoria, Australia
Date
Dec 23, 1926
Page
2
A garbled description claims a test of a petrol engine powered gun using exclusive parts and centrifugal force to eject missiles at high speed. It mentions 15 military entities, a spinning vice, and explosive effects on a wooden plank, with unclear details and numerous transcription errors.
The passage mixes rustic weather lore with animal behavior and superstition. It references a ship metaphor about unseaworthy vessels and the idea that forewarned by signs like squirrels leaving a wood, weather forecasts arise from nests and seasonal patterns. It also touches on remedies and tonic sales.
Pepsodent-Works renders by clearing film coat from teeth. The ad notes teeth look brighter and smoother once the coating is removed.
Photoplay productions now widely use architectural glass painting and painted backdrops to simulate ceilings, temples, and cathedral interiors. Studios mount six foot square glass flats before the camera, aligning walls and ceilings to fool the eye, enabling interior scenery and distant mountains or forests to be created cheaply and believably.
Court of Feit session adjourned with attendances including Javier Ura, WadenonyS, Cobram Waterworks, and engineers Martini and Ke. The meeting noted grant requests and contract terms. secretary DL reported on botta caste matters and the schedule extends into February.
Fragmented OCR lists names and roles from a community notice page including churches, trustees, electors, school committee, cemetery trust, lodges, clubs and show committees. Names such as J Hughes K Kilgour and references to Oddfellows, Cricket Club, Rifle Club, Trotting Club and Agricultural Show appear with roles and titles.
The fragment describes measuring a stack by perpendicular ends and averaging width to compute the area to the ground. It notes attempting to determine true cable contents by a method tied to a ridge and mentions variability in measurements and errors in the calculation.
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