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Newspaper
Cobram Courier
Location
Cobram, Victoria, Australia
Date
Jul 16, 1925
Page
2
In a local note from Dunneavy, Ambrose announces a dispute over the Gobram Telephone Exchange affecting Tocumwal residents. The action involves proposed changes by Katon and implications for community phone service.
Fragmentary text references rates and charges for public use and mentions names or places in a unclear context. Readable portions imply guidance on costs or charges for services, but specifics are missing. The item resembles a brief notice or column fragment about pricing tied to a public facility or service.
The text describes a formula for tank measurement: sum the top and bottom arc areas with four times the middle area, divide by six, then multiply by depth. If measurements are in vault units, divide by 27 to get excavation volume in cubic yards. The passage contains garbled OCR fragments and stray words but centers on a measurement method and conversion to cubic yards.
Fragmentary OCR outlines a subscriber list and a technical note on a water tank project. It describes measurements, slopes, depth, and breadth across multiple sides, referencing locations such as Gordon Punt road and Pastoral Co, with mentions of pumping stations and various place names. The text reads as a mix of list items, addresses, and engineering detail without a coherent narrative.
A selection of assorted envelopes and writing pads from the Courier Office includes varied sizes for daily correspondence. Items are suitable for personal or small business use and come in compact bundles. Ideal for organized mailing and note taking.
An old days estimate of seventy grains per wheat seed is surpassed in Easex where a seed sown in a pit yielded seventy ears by spring. The shoots over winter remained dormant then grew to produce eighty five stalks, twenty fewer than seventy ripened ears, each ear averaging forty four grains and weighing over a quarter pound in total.
Cobram Court of Petty Sessions and Cobram Waterworks Trust publish a roster of officials and attendees. The document lists names for roles across law, local government, churches, farming unions, fire brigade, lodges, births and deaths, schools, clubs, and societies including communications and postal services.
A bungalow built on the thermon principle in Armerica uses double walls with a vacuum space. The design keeps interior rooms warm in winter and cool in heat, with sound proof walls. It also costs less and requires less time to erect than similar-sized erections.
A German horticulturist informs the Royal Botanical Society at Leiden of a new plant in Manchuria named the Soya bean. The bean, now grown in Britain after acclimatization, yields hundreds of bushels per acre and supplies food, fodder, glycerine, explosives, and various industrial products. Experts note its potential to transform diets and industry, with extensive cultivation expanding in America and elsewhere.
An OCR read listing numerous offices and officers across institutions including Mutual Improvement and Progress Association, Church and parish figures, electoral registrar, temperance and labor groups, and city committees. Names such as J Bradstreet, J Hughes, W Higgins, K Kilgour appear amid titles for hospital, churches, clubs, and genealogical offices.
Ty Noa for Suissert y Iil 4 bagns ae weight may oy measuring the vubis contasts of the trum, and frem this calculating the height of s 'eapentoot.
Postal district officers prepare guidelines for addressing letters to Melbourne suburbs. Officials emphasize correct suburb names and consistent postal codes to ensure timely sorting and delivery.
Cobram described as a provincial town on the Murray River with a railway terminus at Goulburn Valley. It lists commerce, agriculture, mills, and public works. explains shire creation on 15 May 1878 and notes divisions, riding boundaries, and population. Names council officers, councillors, health and sanitary staff, and meeting schedule, with Tungamab and surrounding areas detailed.
Parrit toad, Wangaratta resident Mr J W Thomson issued a November 1923 weather prophecy for 13 months that proved accurate and now predicts rest of 1925. July is dry with some wet days, August fair, October starts fine with heavy rain at month end, November rainy early with sunshine, December oppressive early and heavy rain at end. Footnote notes Thomson has studied the subject and hopes beneficiaries will remember.
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