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Newspaper
Cobram Courier
Location
Cobram, Victoria, Australia
Date
Jul 02, 1925
Page
2
A scrambled OCR fragment references a telephone exchange, party lines, and various miscellaneous items including messenger fees and rates. It lists names of hotels, businesses, and residents in a long, disordered ledger-like sequence. The readable portion hints at pricing for public service charges and line considerations.
A historical note outlines a rule for tank excavation volume. It adds top and bottom areas, four times the middle area, divides by six, then multiplies by depth. If in feet, divide by 27 to obtain cubic yards.
A collection of brief items discusses health remedies and risks such as water for digestion and tea effects, the impact of smoking on voice, and radium claims. It notes Global motor counts, US factory-work shifts, a novel Italian typewriter in London, London chrysanthemum exhibits, and British West Africa postmen traveling weeks through jungle before motor vans expand delivery.
A collection of lightning anecdotes describes repeated strikes on ironstone subsoil and in storms across various locations. It cites a Moorland ruined house struck multiple times, ships struck during seven minutes, and a South African veldt thunderstorm with dry lightning. An Australian official recalls mummified remains in a tunnel struck by storms.
Cobram Court of Petty Sessions meets Tuesdays and Fridays with Magistrate Dr. Roger attending. Cobram Waterworks Trust holds bi monthly meetings with Chairman W Adams and engineers led by T Kelly. Various local bodies list officers and secretaries including agricultural society, fire brigade, Masonic lodge, progress association, state school, croquet and bowling clubs, race club, football club and fruitgrowers secretary W Tock.
Cobram on the Murray river serves as a provincial town with cereal farming stock raising wool dairy and timber industries. It lists regional areas and parishes, population 5468, and notes rail and utilities plus a detailed shire council roster including President P J Whitty and officials like W H Tricks and T Kelly.
A garbled OCR fragment lists banks banks managers and trustees including Bank of Australasia State Savings Bank Host Utice Mechanics Institute and commonwealth agencies. It names presidents secretaries and chairs across churches hospitals schools cemeteries and councils with several misspellings and unreadable items.
The readable text hints at measuring a stack of elements and articulating an item related to a baght of five eanistoot, but the fragmentary source provides no concrete details, names, places, or dates to form a fuller, fact-based card.
Fragmentary notice details postal routing to Melbourne suburbs with delivery and despatch notes. OCR fragment references the suburb, post office, and a problem line about numbering and delivery sequence. Further readable context is missing to identify full actions or parties involved.
Victorian wheat price fairness hinges on replacing second-hand sacks with new bags. A conference of merchants millers and the Wheatgrowers Corporation notes overseas markets penalize second-hand sacks. Supply shortfalls mean most sacks must be new, avoiding handling losses and price penalties at country stations and ports.
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