18 Feb 1927
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Newspaper
Fremantle The Advertiser
Location
Fremantle, Western Australia, Australia
Date
Feb 18, 1927
Page
1
On Monday the Fremantle Municipality debated joining a metropolitan plan to gather data for development across the Fremantle Midland Junction corridor. A majority supported the move, criticizing opponents as stagnant and urging forward thinking to avoid past mistakes.
To the Galion. Six tyres and spare wheel for 12 pounds cash. Fully licensed and insured. Palladium Parking and Service Station Bannister Street Fremuhthe.
Portable 4 valve wireless set with headphones frame aerial accumulators coils for ILO 2AR and AD Eastern States Stations offered at £20 or best offer. Paladin.
Late notice advertising Victoria Wall of the Classical School of Dancing offering training every Saturday at 3 o clock in classical dance and stage department. Children trained in classical and modern dances including musical comedy, ballroom, Charleston, and tango with reducing classes advertised. For particulars contact 155 Porvest street Fremantle East.
The Uglies’ appeal closes Saturday after a highly successful Carnival with large crowds nightly. Strathmore beat the state high jump record Tuesday in a praised display. The Hospital and Local Charities appeal runs two weeks starting Monday with Cage of Death Everards and Special Four acts. Wednesday’s Children’s Carnival aims to be spectacular with prizes for best costumes. Rodeo and boxing contests run at intervals throughout the week.
An uproar of social satire critiques flapper culture and domestic peace in South Fremantle. The piece mocks fashion, vanity, and appearances, noting a printer’s odd reply and a new wireless set providing distant music. It playfully questions identities from a telephonist to a gartered maid, ending with an incomplete portrait.
A narrator recalls Mick Brady’s drunken antics and Irish views on beer. The piece compares polling and prohibition debates, mentions Pat in New York, Father Maloney, Dr O’Brien, and Tulloch, and reflects on drink culture, national loyalties, and the Corinthia voyage of Yankee millionaires seeking alcohol in Australia.
Fremantle Council condemns the Routes Advisory Board for fixing the taxi terminal point on the Perth Fremantle road without consultation. The council prefers William Street over Queen Street and opposes routing taxis via Subiaco from Mounts Bay Road, arguing it wastes time and money. The dispute touches on policing costs and political funding.
This Motor Age notice announces a Sydney based Dominion Motor Schools branch at 982 Hay Street Perth offering driving, mechanical, electrical, tractor and lathe training. Instructors are experienced professionals and students can expect top training. For details call A1743.
The Minister for Works approved £5,000 for repairs to the sea wall damaged by last year’s storms at South Beach. Government has already spent £000 on the wall from Scott Street to town, completed a year ago. An additional £5900 will finish the wall to the Hydrodrome, with future repairs southwards to be funded by the Council’s specified portion.
Last Saturday Fremantle Rifle Club fired over the 500 yards range for the fourth stage of the Vice-Captain's Trophy and club spoon in tricky conditions. J R Kean won honors with 66 and the spoon. scores list multiple shooters and points. Nest Saturday the club will shoot over the GW yards range for the fourth Stage of the President's Trophy.
In a lighter note, Biddy, aged 100, proclaims stout over lemon ale and ginger beer, blessing Mr. Guinness as the preferred pint. The playful line reflects enduring fondness for the iconic stout across generations.
Syd Parsons and Lyle Streat of Fremantle and their mate Ken Booth went missing for two days after camping five miles from Toodyay road. Thirst, hunger, and misdirection followed as a beacon fire and a distant bell led rescuers to the youths near White City, North Perth.
Mr Sleeman helped secure a new motor prison van improving privacy for sentries to the gaol. The old Black Maria’s rise in Fremantle lore is marked by a morning ride when a pressman hopped aboard for a free court ride, only to leap off as the doors opened.
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