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Newspaper
Cobram Courier
Location
Cobram, Victoria, Australia
Date
Jan 25, 1939
Page
3
The report notes best grass conditions and a field day at the Whe Juno Valle. It mentions athletes like Sue Bowing and Behr, with highlights across events and heat milestones.
A Henry Lawson Memorial and Literary Society meeting in Fowtscray awarded an essay prize donated by Miss Fabivy Thia. The essay lauds Lawson as a voice of Australian working people and defender of democratic ideals, noting his prose and verse shaping national literature and labor movement sympathy.
Wrought iron and steel scrap buyers advertise in Melbourne. The notice lists locations including Grant Street Soud Melbourne and Little Brook lyn siding with rail connections. It mentions highest prices for wrought iron and references MELBOURNE and firms including MOM AND STERL MILLE PTY. LTD.
The article surveys Lawson as a complex figure, noting his introverted, neurotic traits and heavy drinking as responses to isolation. It contrasts his melancholy with a progressive, socialist spirit, highlighting his memory alongside Burns and Gorki as two beloved storytellers of the working class.
An advertisement claims Prostatone eradicates infection and genitourinary symptoms by acting on the prostate and, when combined with synthetic testosterone, enlarges the prostate and relieves nocturnal frequency. Trial size priced at 12/6 with a medical monograph offer from The Cavendish Laboratory London.
The article narrates a Manchester Guardian science correspondent on unicorns, noting calls by James I to adopt the creature in the coat of arms and recounting Dr W Franklin Dove's experiments at Meine University. It describes horn development in calves and alleged connections to ancient mast nations and poison-purifying horn lore.
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