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Newspaper
Cobram Courier
Location
Cobram, Victoria, Australia
Date
Jan 19, 1928
Page
2
A garbled report from a station mentions a plan to shut a vegetable platform and a related display. Names like Beier and Wes appear, with references to dates and expected events tied to a community discussion. The fragment hints at a public notice style summary of a local issue.
A string of home care hints appears, including stain removal from fabrics, washing with ammonia, softening feathers, and using Epsom salt and beer for frosting effects. It covers cleaning practices, ironing, broom care, and safe handling of heated objects.
In a remote district of Australia a missionary family endures floods that submerse their homestead by twenty feet. The wife, who had just given birth, is rescued with help from local residents and Black community members after a perilous voyage in a small boat to a distant town. The area remains cut off from the outside world for months.
A looser excerpt discusses salt in global diets, noting high salt use in the United States and Europe, mentioning Eskimos and cold climates. It asserts salt affects complexion and digestion and claims salt speeds healing and cleanses wounds, presenting a mix of opinion and data points.
The article explains train whistle codes and signals used by engine drivers to communicate at junctions and siding clearances. It details a prearranged whistle code, the crow signal with signalman, and the mechanism of the whistle bell driven by steam pressure inside the boiler.
Report describes the Avon gorge suspension bridge removed from its Thames span and transported to Bristol in pieces while the Harvick bridge connecting the trinity gives plans to move the structure from South Ampton to Hatwich. The account notes the scale of the operation during wartime and the need to combine barges to float the protected ridge over the water.
Fragmentary OCR text describes names and places with scattered club references. No coherent event details, scores, or dates are readable to identify participants or outcomes.
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