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Newspaper
Geraldton Guardian
Location
Geraldton, Western Australia, Australia
Date
Apr 16, 1908
Page
1
Readers are invited to submit questions for the column amid lively editorials critiquing gender roles, political candidates, and social clubs. The piece wades through hat trimming hairdressing contests and labor platforms, musing on public fences, rabbits, and colonial governance with satirical edge.
The text contrasts living costs in Britain and China, noting 11d per day can sustain a family while cotton can be grown in China. It critiques land policy adding costs via rents. It mentions naval merit promotion and a ship sinking when a thunderbolt tore through the hull, forcing the crew into boats and a tragic Arctic-inflicted voyage with deaths.
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