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Newspaper
Colac Herald
Location
Colac, Victoria, Australia
Date
Jan 06, 1911
Page
3
An early aviation essay contrasts the aviator with the chauffeur, detailing M. Paulhan and the physics of flight. It explains how clouds, shadows, wind layers, and air density demand instant balance adjustments and keen instinct from pilots.
A compressed excerpt from Popular Science notes a future where disturbances are measured by exact science using air conditions and delicate registering instruments. It suggests a lying machine could detect disturbance and avoid it, likening it to the staman cas reading water colour to judge safety.
A collection of humorous vignettes and puzzled lines. A pedantic newsboy disputes a would be seller’s skill, a cat weighs a pound with a missing creature, a joke writer seeks ideas, a railway platform misadventure ends with a postal bill, and a bishop meets a biblical name in the Southern States.
A coroner's inquiry in Camperdown examined the death of Mr Matin F Pascoe who died by self-inflicted wound. The inquest heard that he had suffered sun stroke years earlier and that a will indicated shifting thoughts. He confessed attempting to shoot himself and expressed sorrow while the finding ruled death by throat wound with self-inflicted cause. Edith Bubb Pascoe’s widowhood and family details followed with funeral notes.
In a Tamworth to Howling Alley Point trip a horse collapsed and struggled. Sam L. Pyrke of Bowling Aly Point used Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy mixed with water, reviving the horse within minutes. The ad mentions Geelong exporters and high cherry prices in New Zealand.
A Warrnambool segment reports November to April activities on a 400-acre Creek farm owned by Mr P. Kagu, plus a deferred grant for a teacher residence at the State school. David Kennedy Baillie faced a drunkenness charge and was fined 20 pounds or seven days' jail. The community enjoyed a local dramatic performance at Diddfel halls, while speculation grows about the old seventeenth century wreck known as the mahogany ship offshore near Beatt's Creek with claims the wreck may be buried now.
Australia defeated South Africa by eight wickets in a Melbourne match marked by strong bowling from Whitty and Carter. Key moments included Whitty taking four wickets for 32 as South Africa collapsed to 75, and Australia chasing the target with steady batting to seal the victory.
Effort to solve the domestic servant problem outlines a workers cooperative housing scheme at Letchworth. A 12 000 pound complex would offer common dining tea rooms kitchens and staff services with rents from 40 to 62 pounds per year. The Countess of Aberdeen and the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland send congratulations and support.
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