The Silk Stocking Craze Among Women Workers
A column critiques how some women workers spend wages on luxury and fashion, noting silk stockings and late‑model outfits drain earnings. It argues prudent saving and avoiding extravagant pleasures, urging workers to prioritize future security over fleeting pleasures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Abe
Muriel
Murial
Drese
Tsere
Talls V. Pit
Wen
Stalin
Sean
Elparettse
Local News and School Fund Drive Progress
From Our Own Correspondent reports a boastful push for a new school garden amid a parents tea and toy auction. Voters name Mr Hicky, Mr Forwood, Mr F Clarken, and Dr Bartlett as leading candidates, while district concerns include illness and recent injuries in the community.
Donations listed for Y.M.C.A Effort event at Bowatharrs
Record shows multiple donors including Mr Gibson and Mr Mortons in aid of the Y.M.C.A Effort. Gifts sold and school competitions noted with figures. Port Hedland Harbour report describes sandbank erosion and channel widening, transforming the beach and sand spit over months.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eye Welton
Housekeeper at Buckingham Palace in Royal Service
An elderly Buckingham Palace housekeeper, Mrs Clerk, has served the Royal Household fifteen years. Maids, mainly daughters or relatives of former staff, are managed by Mrs Clerk with Queen Mary’s consent. Reading room for maids, wages around six twenty, duties include daily work and Sunday service. all maids are paid and part of long royal tradition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buckingham Palace
Clerk
Clare
Lee
Aizty
Rapidity Teasing Listed as Stud at Utabara Cleveland Bay
Stallion Rapidity to stand at Utabara Cleveland Bay stud. Details describe lineage, show winnings, and desirable traits. Notes indicate strong temper, quality conformation, and suitability for breeding mares in foal. Some OCR fragments remain unclear about precise dates and names.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Utabarra
Cleveland Bay
Multitude of scattered notes mark a troubled era in Australia
A garbled 19th century clipping reports fires in Queensland, land and manpower debates, wartime recruiting plans, timber and coal developments near Sydney and Melbourne, and a gathering of 28 great grandmothers in Cartm Vie. It mentions German naturalisation, Red Cross drives, and varied domestic and industrial news with many errors but preserves names and places like Bendigo, New South Wales, and Melbourne.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Methodist
Paitterston Street
Carttom Vie
Soissons and Its Long Roman and Medieval Fortunes
Soissons, identified with Noviodunum, rose as a key Roman frontier town and later an imperial seat. Its walls guarded routes to Rheims, Paris, Meaux, and Amiens, while its medieval abbeys and cathedral shaped northern Gaul's religious life. The city became a center of warfare, religion, and agriculture, with notable events from Clovis to the Hundred Years War and Napoleonic era.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Caesar
Noviodunum
Augusts Suasjonume
Luceiona
Soissonz
Rheima
Paris
Chateau-Thierrys Meaux
Quentin
Amiens
Cosa
Cria
China
Innes
Weir Sucerasor
Sofisens
Rhine
Sofsona
Gauls
Clovis
Europe
Clovie
Dave
Prone
Sotsons
St Deake
Chiarps
Sobwens
England
Thomas a’Becket
St Jean Des Viney
Nubis Dame
Notre Dame
Soisonwst
American hunter faces dangers in East Africa lion hunt
Paul Jainy, an American sportsman, leads an expedition into East Africa to photograph and hunt big game. The trek captures lions, rhinoceroses, elephants, and hyenas in action, including near misses with a charging rhinoceros and a lion shot at close range. The photographer, perched high in a tree, films wildlife at a water hole near the Equator as dawns heat and animal crowds create the greatest nature study yet seen in England.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ain
Paul J. Iainy
East Africa
Juney
Horsabsek
Equator
England
Also Mentioned on This Page
N. Chapman
Geraldton
Secra
Taleyhene
Lasest
Swantier Buares
Sydney Fong& Co
Procers, Tine Amo Spirit Merchants
Joe Martin
Dorlachem Street
Jetty Kad
Railway Coffee Palace
JM Prales Beupexan
Murchiron Goldfielda
Ameorsee
Saunders’ Electric
Saunders Electric Pile
Saunders
Price
Gertiude Bt
Melbourne
Leva
Frank Greek & CO
F.& R. Ward
ELWES
Geralytun
Bishop's Palace
Brock
Urnebal Blacksmiths
C. Stokes & Co
Hed and Collar
Wedande
Rewil
Marine Terrace
Orraluton
Anil Northam
Foe Elreals West Lee
Feidgate
Pilate
Ranat Vobss
Bartlett
Iery Mane
de Berg Jet
Hrcky
Forwood
F Clarken
Downes
William Dowson
Arthur Dowson
Robina
Alma
Glaryjer
Clarkson
Gia
Howatharra
Abc
Port Hedland
As Bullarra
Rd Fooce
Iceland
Gedong
Bendigo Jorkey Tub Teas
Lazarus
Red Cross
Mulgroves Queensland
Chist Juste
Sep Zegland Nias
Carl Voltsen
Ot Waren
New Zealand
Geyrs
Aiea
Comery
New South Wale
Jelmaly
Solihen Ae
United States
Adalaid Chamber of Manufactureny
Diaries
Kihurnirea Wubart
Wellington
Percy Hamiltone
Riveradaje Batutynter
Alexandria
Midadng
Anetyr
Dee
Foth
WonBiargie
Cathro Ares
Mie
Defence
Pearces
Orchard
Thabar
Ip & Franca
France
Actisl
Marie
Napoleon
Cromnes
Garmans
Fama
Ad Trevd-Marahal
Mihail Vorengade
Nepoleon
Mheims Hat
Sharles, Hormann, Loton
Thomas
Sydney
Fliemeral
W'ne
Spirit Mercham Northampton
Som Ping Thieer and Son
Western Australian Insurance CO
Cyclone Fence CO
Geraldton Timber Co.,, Ltd
Messrs, Fallowfield & Coy Timber and Hardware
Planind Mile
Tronwondery. Com
W S. Armitage
Crooks & BrOoKer
Geraldtor
Mmomgere
MINTO
Constantine & Gardner
Commercial Stationers
Perth
Guardian” Newspaper Office
Hancock
Perstat
A. Waller
Lockies
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