27 Jul 1922
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Newspaper
Cobram Courier
Location
Cobram, Victoria, Australia
Date
Jul 27, 1922
Page
1
Five people were struck by lightning while sheltering beneath trees during a storm. The incident highlights the danger of seeking shade under trees in thunderstorm conditions and urges safer shelter options in open areas and near sturdy structures.
Fragmented readable passages describe a scene of color and light, mentioning names and events in a poetic, puzzle-like style. The text hints at a communal gathering and symbolic contrasts between night and day, with references to figures and distant places.
OCR fragment reads like a garbled local notice or column with scattered names and phrases. Core facts and subjects are unclear, but multiple proper nouns appear in disordered form suggesting a historical community item or brief. Further legible text needed for a precise headline and summary.
A dense OCR fragment lists numerous personal names streets and places with scattered references to hotels stations hospitals and private residences. The garbled text reads like a catalog of individuals and locales without coherent narrative or events.
A fragmented OCR note outlines a method to measure tank dimensions and volumes. It references bottom top and middle areas, arithmetic steps to compute cubic feet, and aims to determine length, breadth, and bottom size after sinking. It mentions numbers and ratios but remains unclear and partially garbled.
The text describes calculating stack volume by multiplying length by width and height. It notes using area of the base times half the height for weight estimation. It suggests more accuracy via a cab measurement, base centroid, and height to compute cube volume.
Cobram and District outlines a shire in the Tonganish area with industry notes on farming cereals, dairying, fruit, timber and other commerce. It covers creation dates, parishes, ridings, population figures, Commonwealth divisions, electoral districts, council officers and staff, and the Tungamah Waterworks Trust meeting details.
Cobram court of petty sessions holds Tuevilays and Fridays for ordinary business. Police magistrate attends monthly. Clerk of Courts Constable R Johnson. Local Justices named. Cobram Waterworks Trust meets every second month. Commissioners include J Grant J.P., Stokes, Wadden, Parvell, Martindale. Engineer T Kelly.
A compilation of names and roles from local organizations including churches, agriculture societies, lodges, political committees, and clubs. It lists presidents secretaries chairmen and officials such as W. Shade, J. J. Browne, J. Ryan, L. Crawford, and others across committees, societies, and unions in Cobram, Victoria and surrounding areas.
A long OCR fragment lists presidents secretaries and officials for many groups including Mutual Improvement Progress Association Hospital Demonstration Committee Churches Church of England Catholic Church and various lodges clubs and civic bodies with names such as D E Mil eod C Lleyton Dralecreett LW Bixee J Q Uradatreet and A Taylor. The document also names roles like registrar of births deaths and marriages postmaster and stationmaster, reflecting a town’s overlapping volunteer and public service network.
A Fraser River District publication born from priest Le Jeune’s effort to capture Indigenous speech in phonetic shorthand. The weekly, printed with special type and copying machine, gains rapid interest and now circulates over two thousand copies.
A historical note estimates Great Britain now fields nearly 500000 vehicles including 202000 cars 186000 motorcycles and 41700 taxis. It envisions a continuous line linking London to Rome and compares annual UK vehicle travel to distances such as multiple trips to the moon and a year’s total miles reaching nearly 59 million.
A brief explanation outlines how sunlight ranges across colors but most short and weak waves are blocked near the sun, allowing mainly red, orange and green light to reach us. The mix yields yellow sunlight, with a note that we nearly see blue instead.
A Royal Horticultural Society official notes musk plants have lost much of their scent over the past decade. Most musk today is barely scented, with only some remaining sweet-smelling varieties. The reason remains undetermined.
A misprint obituary for a local resident caused upset in the neighborhood. The notice, mistaken as a death, drew an angry letter to the editor claiming the section misrepresented a person nicknamed “Dene Gtr.” The excerpt hints at family tensions and a disruptive incident by a man named Dick.
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