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Newspaper
Cobram Courier
Location
Cobram, Victoria, Australia
Date
Mar 04, 1926
Page
2
A rough guide explains calculating tank volume by adding top and bottom area figures and middle sections, dividing by six, then converting to cubic feet or yards. It lists measurements and place names in a long, garbled OCR passage with multiple names and locales.
A London Gazette supplement details a £1,000,009 pool spread across 4,890 accounts dating back to 1720. Funds arise from railway land, cargo claims, unlocated heirs, and annuities, with many balances lost to time. The piece notes the immense effort needed to recover assets and warns that vast unclaimed riches do not exist in Chancery.
A historical note outlines who may be addressed as Esquire. It lists younger sons of peers baronets knights and their heirs, heralds officers of the Crown and state, county officials, serjeants at arms and lay king, companions of knighthood, deputies, commissioners, and royal household officers. It explains precedence of Esquire by office or rank.
The article traces changing views on mince pies from Puritan and Quaker bans to earlier origins. It notes that chefs or religious figures once deemed pies illegal or forbidden and hints at ancient origins dating back to Druids before the sixteenth century.
A garbled collection of curiosities and misreadings reports on teeth enamel as hardest tissue, Moscow hospital raids, a glowing head-tind lamp, lasers affecting nerves, and various oddities including horses, balloons, and education claims. The mix includes economic figures, fashion imports, and scrambled quotes from scientists and officials.
Unable to extract readable facts from the provided text fragment. No clear entities or events to summarize into a headline and card.
The readable text is distorted and offers no clear person, place, date, or event to summarize into a factual newspaper item.
A damaged OCR fragment mentions a fete and seating details with unclear names and numbers. The readable elements point to a September date and a possible event hosted by a group or venue, but specifics remain obscured.
The piece ponders sea salinity, noting rivers bring about one hundred million tons of salt yearly and the ocean holds around 140 billion tons of salt. It speculates on the age of the sea’s saltness and then darts to a humorous aside about rainy days and closed eyes.
A garbled OCR list references Melbourne suburbs and venues, naming Black Rock Briginon Brunew Camber Kepterbury Garityu Karlton Noes Ver 1 Dt Leon to Se Ceuifield Bay and South Yerrs with scattered place tokens and stray numbers, offering little coherent context beyond a collection of locality names and stray terms.
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