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Newspaper
Geraldton Guardian And Express
Location
Geraldton, Western Australia, Australia
Date
Jun 25, 1930
Page
4
Bellerrra presents Wonderful Tonic claimed to cure nerves neuritis anaemia and indigestion caused by overwork. The tonic is advertised as restoring health and strength after ailments and is priced at 3 shillings per box.
A 25 year old blind librarianship in Paris holds 30 000 volumes. blind readers access catalogs registers and book numbers, while Prof Pierre Villey writes on the psychology and pleasures of reading for the blind, including how sound and atmosphere shape imagination and moral perception.
A fragmented reminiscence recalls the 1870s discovery myth of a split diamond in South Africa. Trader John O'Reilly finds a stone worth hundreds, sparking frenzy. Diamonds pile up across De Beers claims as Van Niekerk and others profit. a wall mosaic of gems transforms a simple homestead into a £20,000,000 treasure.
Peter Tropegood recalls a zany scheme from The Listening Post where a man with a bright idea tries selling damaged Bibles in Australia. He hires packers, places a big Sunday ad, and surprisingly gets a single unmarried man as the first reply, highlighting ironic humor in deadpan memoir style.
A damaged OCR price list shows no cash register tickets and lists fruits such as plums melons raspberries and gooseberries with prices like 10d per ounce and 28/6 per dozen. Also mentions marmalade, canned goods, teas, jellies and essences with various old shilling and penny prices, amid garbled branding.
Readable items include Saucepans priced at 6 shillings and 6 pence, a 1 pint Saint and a 10 inch steel fry pan at 2 shillings each, a Demmestie Bosle with aval baa priced 5 shillings 9 pence sale price 13 shillings, Companion goods at 10 shillings 6 pence usual, Hexagonal bolts and nuts 3 to 34 x 4 priced eight pence per pound, Cedar Minnesota staves sale price 4 shillings 6 pence and 3 shillings 9 pence.
Six-piece Toilet Sets in white reduce from 23 shillings to 21 shillings. Six-piece decorated sets and six-piece caps and saucers offered from 7/6 per dozen. Ten sets of 21 pieces from 7/6 each, a 30-piece Dinner Service down to 32/6. White and Gold bread and butter plates at 5 per dozen. Various sizes of oil tins and arctic oil listed with prices.
Frank Green & Co reports that Darwin pearlers urge relief from federal taxes and rules. Speakers Kepert and Morgan say overproduction and high costs threaten Broome and Darwin operations, risking shifts east and potential contract losses with American buyers. They urge government reforms to sustain a £750,000 annual industry.
A Church Union speaker denounces sex equality and easy divorce amid rising British divorces from 577 in 1913 to 3000 in 1926 and 5000 last year. He urges bishops to address divorce in social relations while the United States spends 14.44 million dollars yearly on forest fire prevention.
The ninth wool sale of the year held on Tune day in Perth offered 13,000 bales with a firm market. May rates dominated for most wools except superior sorts, which were slightly buyers’ favour. Good clearances were reported and observers expected the average to edge above May figures due to stronger selection. Dalgety & Co filed reports on 6592 bales, noting a varied mix from recent shears across regions including Kimberleys and North. Prices for Kanbah Pastoral’s wool and others reached notable highs amid keen competition, with many major consignments from numerous pastoral companies and districts.
A damaged OCR page lists scattered agricultural notices and pastoral names including Munurre Pastor, Pantera Ga, Yalgoa, Thomne and Co. Jubbering, Millar and Son, and Dungurags Pastoral Co. It preserves a mosaic of place names, dates, and figures with no coherent narrative or clear events.
Goldsbrough Mort and Co sent forward numerous bales from Great Southern and agricultural districts. Principal prices list names of buyers and districts such as Marchison Jus Hayes Greenwood Meekatharma and Meekatharra with bids in shillings and pence. Several consignors and local stations including Sherwood Gundabunna Wubin Mt Magnet and Yoummi appear with small lots and prices.
Westralian Farmers offered a logue of 430 bales drawn from parts of the State. The sales include A. W. Allen of Mt Magnet with 12 and 34 plus Wad. Ales. E. C. Wells of Minyic with 10d and other details.
Peter Murphy, reputed oldest Broadmoor inmate, dies at the asylum aged around 100. He served 55 years at Broadmoor Berkshire after a 1875 Old Bailey sentence for malicious wounding. Murphy played the side drum 32 years in the band and later taught drumstick technique to Ronald True before death.
A scrambled, partial user prompt asking about historical executions and battles with several garbled phrases. It references Guy Yawker, a possible phrase Dumciad, and asks about countries between Germany and Britain, a calendar element, a ruler cover component, and a battle near Stare ton Mose, but the text is unclear and contains many typos.
The long journeying prospector George Mabian, famed as “Ciny Pan Joe,” traveled from Africa to the United States and New Zealand before returning to Paysceville. He served in the Great War and died after a failed attempt at gold prospecting near Wisdaur Castle.
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