Grand Prix Cars at Le Mans to Feature Eight Cylinder Engines
Motor racing notes preview the 1940s Le Mans Grand Prix on July 23. Nineteen entrants will use straight eight engines with small bores and long strokes for high speed and smooth torque. Sunbeam cars from England will have 65 mm bore and 112 mm stroke, aiming for over 100 bhp with total car weight near 1764 lb and speeds around 100 mph on straightaways.
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Beig
le Mans
France
Proton
Sunbeam
England
Thistle Football Club Social at East Fremantle Hall
A pleasant social evening was held at East Fremantle town hall with Thistle Football Club members and Caledonians supporters attending. Tea on three long tables overflowed with carnar tions and ferns, prepared by club friends, and W Murray aided the event. Gentlemen contributed songs and music including J Durnard Renshaw and Oswald with M Corkendale at the piano, closing the night with entertainment.
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East Premantle Town Hall
Thistle Football Club
Jourinere
East Fremantle Oval
Caledonians
W. Murray
J. Durnard
Renshaw
Dutton
Wilson
Stockhall
Oswald
M. Corkendale
Stranger Arm strong tames Muttama in cricket recall
Mr Akers recalls Warwick Arm strong's prank years ago at Mingay Station near Coolae. Muttama team invited a mysterious visitor who proved a formidable batsman, smashing sixes and fours as Arm strong scored 84 before a bat shattered and flew into Coolae Creek ending the match.
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Warwick Armstrong
Akers
Gundagai
Coolae
Mingay Station
Miss O'Donnell
Akerso
Muttama
Mingay Wan
Armstrong
Johnny
Venus Armstrong
Coolae Creek
Tivoli Silk Stocking Company performs in Fremantle tonight
Fremantle concert lovers are promised a unique bill of music at the Town Hall by the Tivoli Silk Stocking Company with Tivoli orchestra. The Shaftesbury Theatre troupe supplies the artists described as the pick of the renowned company. The program is noted as a rare treat for patrons and the troupe will visit Fremantle each Saturday night with an extended report to follow next week.
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Fremantle
Town Hall
Tivoli Silk
Tivoli Orchestra
Shaftesbury Theatre
Record-Worthy Eurythmic Dominates Australasian Stakes
Eurythmic already leads in four-year-old prize money in Australia and has won twelve of thirteen races this season, only finishing fourth in the Melbourne Cup. The horses Carbine Patton Poseidon Vauxiré and others are compared for four-year-old performance, with mentions of specific races, weights carried, and notable times. Desert Gold is noted as a four-year-old precursor in the sequence.
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Eurythwie
Austraelia
Eurythmic
Insanof
New Zealand
He Ik
Carbine
Siblees
Melos
Dreadnought
Patton
Carnage
Lord Cardigan
Poseidon
Altver
King
Viaxire
Burythmie
Pisarre
Sut
Colgne
Kelly
Poitrel
Kennagughamn
Night Watch
Desert Gold
Aod
Pfour
Rist
Cumberland Rakes
Cook Seeks Easy Win in England Clash After Curphey Shock
Australian heavyweight George Cook trains in England, confident of beating Goddard on July 2 and eyeing a possible future against Dempsey. Manager Lucas praises Cook’s speed, infighting, and a powerful right to the body, noting his rapid improvement since arriving in England.
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Goddard
Joe Beckett
Georges Carpen
Lucas
George Cook
Cook
Vietory
Jack Curphey
Thames Dilton
Jaycas
Warpentier
Coo
England
Australia
Dempsey
London
Acen Trainig
Gus Platts
Eurythmic Four-Year-Old Form Compared With The Field
A discussion of four year old Eurythmic and other horses' race records, detailing weights in past cups and stakes earnings. It notes Carbine’s pull over him and lists Eurythmic's performance from ten furlongs to two miles, including major wins and placings.
Barnaby the Juggler Shows Truth Through Holiness
An old tale set in Compiegne follows Barnaby, a poor juggler, who roams France amid hardship. He seeks a higher calling, enters a monastery, and learns humility and devotion from monks and the Holy Virgin, culminating in a vision where the Virgin blesses his purity of heart.
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Louie
France
Compiegne
Barnaby
Towm
Akill
Adax
Mary
Tina
Mainte Vani
Selan
Eleep
Salta
Decima
Alexander
Heaven
Bolomon
Eve
Michis
Thade
Holy Mother of God
Alfer
Virgin
Sole
Barsaby
Darnsby
Prist
Barnaby Belore
Barmsby
W. Willis
Remarkable 102 year old woman from Mansfield Baptised and Confirmed
Mrs Ann Sissons of Mansfield Notts celebrated baptism at Pitnsoor Church and confirmation at Sheffield in her 102nd year. She has eight children of whom four survive and 302 grandchildren and great grandchildren. Despite illiteracy she remains active, recalling a life of poverty, harvest work, and an accident at eighty two. Her husband died thirty years ago aged seventy.
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Totow
Ann Sissons
Mansfield
Notts
Pitnsoor Church
Sheffield
Legan
Liz
Mrs Gordon Lowe Convicted in Cannes Theft Case
Mrs Gordon Lowe the noted tennis player and wife of Gordon Lowe was arrested at Cannes on March 15 for taking money from a man’s clothes at the Cannes Lawn Tennis Club. She pleaded guilty before the First Offenders Act, with restitution of 12,000 francs noted. The trial in Nice featured a detective’s testimony about a baited trap and a coat pocket passbook.
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Cannes
GordonLowe
M. Loo
Popes Vo Pres
Maret
Rodrigues
Guanes Lape
Pat
Palk
Mrem Lowe
Erat
You Kage
Lowe
Mod
Thad
Ty Jomes
Dempsey Carpentier Fight Draws £87500 Booking Shock
The boxing championship clash between Jack Dempsey and Georges Carpentier is projected to exceed £87,500 in bookings. Carpentier, aiming to win by superior fighting intelligence, acknowledges Dempsey as the favorite, though he vows to meet brute strength with strategy.
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Jack Dempsey
Georget Carpentier
Dempsey
Carpentier
Fragmentary wartime line hints aligned with Allies
The OCR text is garbled and incomplete but appears to reference Allies and betrayals. No clear persons, places, dates, or events are identifiable to form a precise historical item or headline.
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Coolag
Tivoli Silke Stocking CO
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Mr. Neal
Ate of
Albany
Cerbine
Pour
Cetigne and Poitrel
Geraldton Express
Advertiser
Bancewuim
Reema
Our Lady's Juggler
Anatole France
Morbode
Liu
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Our Lady
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