Letters From The Services Cobram Comforts Fund notes from stationed personnel
The Comforts Fund secretary reports two letters from service members. Dr R F Alderton thanks for canteen orders and mentions Sgt Nuttal and the wet season ahead. LAC Norm Jordan also thanks for the canteen order and hopes to be home soon, noting no local friends nearby.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. F. Alderton
Cobram Comforts Fund
Cobram
Sgt. Nuttal
Lavee
O.K
LAC Norm
Concrete lamp posts to guide Melbourne streets
A Melbourne Letter notes readers crave visible house numbers and painted lamp posts to identify doors, praising the idea of clearly lit glass signs. The piece also features Hal Percy recalling his career from schooldays to theatre and radio, including founding the Melbourne Little Theatre and 13 years in radio.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Melbourne
Hal Percy
Hal
Seymour Hicks
Harry Green
Maurice Moscovitch
Leon Gornon
Brett Handall
Melbourne Little Theatre
Randall
Fragmentary rural dialogue captured inOCR
A garbled script presents a neighborly chorus of dialect speech about family concern. The text hints at marital tensions and anxieties amid an unsettled moment in a small community locale.
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Cobram Courier
Kathryn Grayson
van Heflin
Aturday
Jeanette McDonald
Robert Young
Cairo
Criterion Cafe
Buncle
Bluebird’ Cafe
Scheppe
Buncles
Bluebird
Sennitt’s Ice Cream
Gorham
E. JU. Mulcaay
Grocer
Tooieu Dad Tk
Ds GU aTteed
Atlantic Union
Dornay
E Mulcahy
Clayman
Wilbur Street
Prinie Cobram
Comforts Fund
E. A. Cole
Moonee Ponds
Victoria
Germain
Army Signal Corps
Ragland
Mitchell
Mitchel
Méinnea
Dite
Oudtuili
Baluuil
DeLure
Doreen Dale
Aimien
Ala Uruppeu
Catalina Uyuig-Boul
Dabei
Lau
Cauilina
Perry
Veebe
Suh
Suirpenderen
Prisctivrs
Ross Ok
Madang
Udiwinnen
Pacific
Eniwetek
Entwetok
Central Pacific
Sinai
Hmowa
Howards
Tasmania
Howards A
Austes Igay
Howard Correspondence College
Howards’ Limited
G. Gattusso
McCormick-Deering
Farmall H
Deus
McCormick
Ena
Cobrarm & District
Ray Eaton
Bank Street
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