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Newspaper
Cobram Courier
Location
Cobram, Victoria, Australia
Date
Jul 29, 1937
Page
2
W HOULIHAN announces he has taken over the business formerly run by Mr OD Jak at Yarroweyah North Post Office. Charges are moderate and work is promptly attended to. Licensed to tap malus and agent for Atlas Insurance Co Diabolo Separators T Robinson and Co.
The article notes high interest in a game likely to decide fourth place with Finley and Berrigan both entering the clash all out from the opening bounce.
Nathalia beat Cobram 22 goals 18 behinds to 1 goal 6 behinds as Nathalia's Mounter scored seven goals and Hawkins delivered strong umpiring. Disqualifications, injuries, and questions of club spirit colored the game with Cobram missing six players and a wrist injury to Capram’s Les Moar.
Excerpt from Opperman’s concluding instalment recounts the desperate efforts to catch Frantz and de Waele in the 1921 Paris Brest Paris race. He describes the brutal climbs the cobblestones and the crowd’s shouting as he fights to the finish with Bidot behind.
The narrator recalls the Paris Brest Paris race with Decroix leading, Bidot slipping, Pan cera making a late bid, and the moment he seized his chance as the home straight approached. The excerpt captures race tension and personal reflections in a single sprint sequence.
A Wyalong district court judge rejects the Morator ium Act as allowing one man to seize another’s farm, leaving them to starve. The Wangaratta County Court notes this year marks two jubiles of the electric telegraph dating from 1837. The piece ends with a quip about a “wiry” constitution.
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