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Newspaper
Fremantle The Advertiser
Location
Fremantle, Western Australia, Australia
Date
Jun 13, 1924
Page
3
A reader urges the government to set soldiers pensions on a permanent footing after years of postwar uncertainty. The letter argues pensions should be life-fixed, end ongoing medical exams, and limit repatriation delays, proposing a pension lasting life with official verification at post offices and a shift away from tied employment for pension officials.
The piece reviews claims on longevity from a 103 year old and notes that simple habits, heredity, and rare science offer no firm guidance. It cautions against overgeneralizing from one long life and highlights the uncertain physiology behind aging.
A preacher delivers a biting valedictory farewell accusing the community of lovelessness and lack of pay, noting his move to Pentridge as chaplain and promising a new, better place in the future. The speech jabs at salary delays, fruitless years, and strained relations before signing off with good-bye.
The Fremantle naval trainees parade to St John’s last Sunday with 10 officers and 370 ratings, joined by commanders, colonels, and government staff. Archbishop Miley urged zeal, courage, and service, praising the navy’s preparedness as a model for citizenship and the state’s guardians.
In the Fremantle Mercantile Association challenge, Leather Trades beat the Druids by 59 runs. Key scores include Smith, Gallagher, Johns, Trotter, Ashton, Bancroft, Brown, Harrie, G. Douglas, Loakes, Bromley absent. Munro 9 for 7 and Wilson 5 for 19 bowled for the Druids.
The piece compares microbes to rebels, noting some are easily subdued by antibodies while others are turbulent. It argues that if harmful microbes are turbulent we may not live long, whereas mild microbes offer a better chance at long life unless habits like drinking and city banquets undermine health.
Miss Long hosts a dance in the new hall on Saturday the 28th. Parents and Teachers’ Association hold a dance in the old hall on Saturday the 14th to aid the plano fund. Aimgee vegetables, Anderson Bros prices, and notable fishing reports accompany social and agricultural notes from Coogee and Rockingham.
At the Cottesloe Beach Road Board meeting held Monday June 2 health items were reviewed. The inspector seized a tin of fish unfit for consumption and destroyed it. Debate over removing Mary pans from the station continued without progress due to cost. A motor truck purchase was debated with a committee to arrange a demonstration before a decision. A district revaluation plan and extension of mains with extra street lights were approved.
The article reviews Hermann Radestock’s Kosmos piece on how diseases move westward from Asia. It discusses quarantine, transmission paths, and the role of intermediate hosts and vectors like mosquitoes and rats in spreading plague, malaria, and cholera, with notes on origin foci.
Read June 24 winners but many ignored the chance. Urges Australians to buy tickets now, noting prizes of 3500 pounds, 1000 pounds, and 750 pounds, and directs readers to contact a local agent or mail two self addressed stamped envelopes to the State Secretary in Perth.
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