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Newspaper
Cobram Courier
Location
Cobram, Victoria, Australia
Date
Oct 12, 1938
Page
4
Violet Mason emerges as a pivotal figure amid a tense conspiracy involving Clary Pratt, Violet Mason, and Inspector plans. Violet is suspected as a spy tied to Preston's secrets, while Clary debates stealing a letter to Mr Barty. The tale tracks alibis, bribery, and a push toward truth under pressure from an intimidating Preston.
Violet Mason faces dismissal after a factory inspector claims she entered Atkin's under false pretenses. Mr Chesney, a kindly contact, had funded her care, while the harsh planner accuses her of misusing Preston’s tiles and misrepresenting her role as a press girl. The scene ends as she contemplates her uncertain future.
The piece describes owners coping with cats that sharpen claws on furniture. A woman even resigned from work to protect upholstery. A cat pole is built three feet high, covered in thick material and treated with catnip to lure the cat to scratch it instead of chairs. The pole stands firmly as a furniture-sized scratching post.
Farmers neglect the cream separator in cold months leading to higher skimming losses. Washing soon after use with warm water and powder reduces variation, keeps standardized cream within tolerance, and stabilizes tests despite temperature and speed changes.
Simple remedies for minor holiday mishaps cover insect stings bites and travel sickness. Use onion juice ammonia and home remedies to ease stings and itching, rub dry soap in stockings to deter insects, dock leaves for nettle stings, and give grapefruit pulp before travel to curb sickness.
Hollywood stars embrace milk in skin care and diets with Beads gowns and milk facials. Irene Dannie wore 27 quarts in a gown for The Awful Truth while Deanne Durbin Ginger Rogers and Greta Garbo publicly praise milk for complexion sleep and nourishment.
A fragmented piece discusses romance and marriage, contrasting affection with duty. It argues women face social expectations, the permeability of respectable roles, and the tension between love and wedlock amid turbulent times.
The Victoria Racing Club promotes the Melbourne Cup carnival at Flemington with high stakes and major trials. The program opens October 29 with the Wakeful Stakes, Maribyrnong Plate, and Derby contenders, culminating in the Melbourne Cup on November 1 with a £10,000 prize and £3,000 for second place.
A lengthy program details prize money and races for the final days of the Victoria Racing Club Spring carnival. Key events include the Oaks Stakes, Derby Lily, Linlithgow Stakes, and Veteran Stakes, with age and distance restrictions and purses up to £1000. The program ends with the Final Handicap and the Steeple Chase, capping a week of prominent racing and betting activity.
A garbled OCR snippet lists multiple personal names including Joann, Sir Walls, Lem, and Lin, with stray references to places and numbers. The text lacks coherent events or actions, offering only scattered fragments that do not form a complete report.
An unclear OCR fragment contains garbled words and stray phrases about people and actions. The readable portions offer no coherent event or identifiable entities to summarize. The text appears as broken dialogue and scattered notes without a discernible news item.
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