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Newspaper
Cobram Courier
Location
Cobram, Victoria, Australia
Date
Mar 31, 1938
Page
3
The excerpt centers on Nance Sloman and Trevor as they navigate love and secrets. Trevor seeks commitment while Marchetti’s hidden plan shadows their future, and Nance contemplates a risky marriage to secure happiness despite looming predators. The piece threads social pressure, reputations, and personal longing.
The Queen will use a Buckingham Palace office on her own plan and work with typewriter ready for daily duties. Secretaries’ cabinets and labelled letter baskets are installed as over 100 letters pass daily. King George at Sandringham pushes businesslike farming on his 7000 acre estate, earning him the nickname Farmer George.
A look at how phrases like white elephant under the rose taking the cake and talk hunkum arose. From Siam to Latin to a Spanish Paplou and a Buncombe congressman the article traces linguistic roots and humorous legends behind familiar sayings.
An ex soldier in Alabama fired a bullet into his brain seeking death in 1922. He survived with the bullet lodged near the pituitary gland and has since led a normal, productive life. Doctors deem the case a million to one chance and not a general treatment.
A reader laments shoddy wool skirting in stores pointing to over skirting and broken pieces. The article urges trained workers to handle fleece, notes the classer’s burden, and warns owners to demand proper methods to protect fleece value.
Queensland's winter tourism push highlights the east coast's vast coastline from Point Danger to Cape York Peninsula. European and American visitors are drawn to warm climates, sparse travel barriers, and Queensland's natural scenery, with Brisbane and the Barrier Reef cited as prime attractions. The piece notes reduced European travel to old routes and promotes the Queensland Government Tourist Bureau for bookings in Melbourne.
A London discussion sparked by Mr. Gordon Selfridge’s plan to send 1000 staff to America for holidays and to form a Girls' Club aims to improve home labor dignity. The plan faces resistance as a heckler interrupts, arguing a maid should not be given a bath, prompting the speaker to defend maids’ rights and independence.
A letter from a little girl describes a stray white cockatoo seen circling the district. A man climbed a ladder to capture the bird perched on a barn gable, but details of the capture remain unclear. The tale highlights communal curiosity over an unusual pet sighting.
A discussion on how crime detection experts influence trials, balancing scientific testimony with jury judgment. It contrasts British and American approaches, noting judges’ caution, the weight of expert opinion, and the risk of overreliance on technical evidence versus common sense in reaching verdicts.
Leonard Wight, arthritis specialist in Melbourne, advertises eradicating rheumatoid arthritis fibrositis and osteoarthritis without surgery injections or electrical devices. He offers payment as treated with no large deposit and invites consultation by ringing 3283 at his Collingwood Melbourne institute. Parents accommodated and treated.
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