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Newspaper
Geelong Advertiser
Location
Geelong, Victoria, Australia
Date
Dec 24, 1918
Page
2
Fragmentary ad for a ladies college in Melbourne promising frame training and related offerings with unclear details and dates. The snippet references a Melbourne address and an establishment date of 1878 amid garbled OCR text.
The text argues Australia must boost manufacturing through electricity and high power per unit of investment, noting Britain’s reconstruction and rivals relying on superior motive force. It contrasts steam’s decline with electric motors, urging reforms and industrial actions for modern, efficient production.
The text describes how rising qunits of power in industry and innovation push electricity use, stressing national duty to expand transmission and generation. It cites debates in Parliament over curbing waste and boosting output, with references to ministers urging cheap activity and modernization. Strong entities include Capytal, Khur, Assoemlinn, and Vie fuviil amid a broad arc of industrial change.
Fragmented text outlines a plan for a dammed water system to power production with billions of units of energy. It mentions government and company coordination, unitarity guarantees, and aims to supervise rivers and coal resources by 1920. It references named places and figures in a speculative industrial policy discussion.
Fragmented report details committees reviewers and officials in a long list of actions and inquiries. Named figures include Dr Lowmuan and Nie J. Dew with sub committees and appointed subcommittees. The text references legal and governmental proceedings and a request for tests and results, but specifics are unclear from the damaged OCR.
A scrambled text from a historical page describes weather, hospital notices, and local figures in Geelong. It mentions a busy station, divisions over appointments, and references to hospitals, charity collections, and Christmas donations. The disordered lines preserve names like St George's Presbyterian and Prospect Road Newton.
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