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Newspaper
Cobram Courier
Location
Cobram, Victoria, Australia
Date
May 31, 1923
Page
2
Police report ongoing efforts to curb theft by forged cheques sent through the mail and altered signatures. The thieves use letterbox fraud and post office tricks, with cheque forgery rising since 1917 and causing substantial losses to businesses.
A garbled OCR passage offers scattered names and events from a historical scene. It mentions individuals such as Snead and Harland, a dogen bette, and references to a living space and yearlong timelines. The text remains fragmentary with unclear chronology and missing context.
The readable fragments suggest a mix of phrases and garbled words about science, tablets, and timing. No coherent events, names, or places emerge to form a valid news item or provide a central outcome.
A heavily garbled list of street names places and names related to a Cobram Telephone Exchange directory. The fragmentary text includes street references towns and numerous personal names and likely auctioneers and agents. It reads as a partial directory snippet with many unreadable words and inconsistent formatting.
A historical note outlines methods to measure a trench or tank site with tiles and yardage. It covers breadth and length, top and bottom areas, and division into middle sections. It specifies removal from one side during excavation and indicates resulting remaining dimensions after removal.
The method describes calculating an oblong sack content by multiplying length by average width and the height to the ground. For the top, area at the eaves is multiplied by half the height to the ridge. It notes uncertainty in weight and accuracy of cable contents of the truss.
An Arnold Bennett essay warns parents not to impose their unfulfilled ambitions on their children. It argues adults often mistake their own desires for wisdom, notes parents forget their youth, and urges youth to face difficulties while aging avoids them. It cautions against reckless risk and compares failure to typhoid fever.
Household tips advise rubbing wallpaper with camphorated chalk and adding a splash of blue to wash curtains. It suggests burying suet in a fourbin, cleaning lamp bars with vinegar and onion peels, and cleaning carpets with petrol and edge rubbing. Replace dirty rags as they soil, using spirits for glass.
Cobram Directory District forms the richest Shire of Tancamsh with agriculture, dairy, timber, and a river trade hub. Tungamah Shire history notes splits, parishes, and officials. population 5468 in 1900s era text. council meets monthly with officers listed. amid a garbled nutrition note, a recipe hints at stewing fruit with rhubarb and sugar.
Fragmented note lists Melbourne suburb names and numbers for routing letters. It then shifts to health tips about teeth, onion diet effects, and home first aid remedies including wood smoke for infection and raw potato scrap for burns.
A garbled OCR page lists various roles and names including Registrar A Taylor, State School leaders, Juveniles secretary, Gardens Committee H Grousham, Ieoe Club Provident, Whitty vee president Den McLean secretary, Tone Ga president Mr Jes Jones, Cricket Club T J Quinlan secretary B Quiltey, Drainstie club I L Elliott, HT Bidebottom Farm Union leaders, Felitial Labor Council Cher Timothy president, Wechstrar of Birtha Deaths and Mariagee F Kilgour.
Promoters of football and cricket matches and other gatherings must lodge written applications with the undersigned for the use of the show grounds on such occasions.
Cobram court dates set for Tuesdays and Fridays for ordinary business. Police magistrate Mr C J Roger attends ages month. Clerk of Court Consable B Johnson. Local Justices include Dr Jamies Grant and others. Cowramat reworks Trust features a bi monthly commission chaired by J Grant JP with M Stokes and A Wadeson. Church listings cover Royland, Roman Catholic Ellis, Presbyterian Campbell Labore, Methodist Tippett. Various associations and officers listed including Agriculture Society president G Ritchie, Mechanics Institute chair Robt Broombeld, and Cobram Branch Victorian Farmers Union chair J J Browne. Postmaster Litte, Stationmaster H Ney, and other civic roles noted.
Mr Keamy, agent for Neptune Oil Company, seeks spraying material to destroy insects on a sprayer at his property in Burnoga. Court action concerns spraying conducted at an abortert site, with material kept on site.
Rear-Admiral Brad ley A. Fiske patents a portable device that stores a vast reading library in a wallet sized unit. A narrow aluminum strip holds paper bands printed via photo-engraving at one hundredth the normal type size, enlarged by a magnifying glass to reveal about 100000 words per five strips.
In a playful yet curious note, Dublin is imagined as an ancient goldfield and pearl bed per a scientist's theory. The piece warns that a Dublin gold rush could arise as money drives expansion, with trams and districts under threat of redevelopment. A wedding quip follows.
The Courier Office advertises affordable envelopes and writing pads for customers. It highlights prices and bulk options, inviting readers to visit the shop for supplies.
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