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Newspaper
Geraldton Guardian
Location
Geraldton, Western Australia, Australia
Date
May 02, 1908
Page
1
A collage of sharp snippets covers crime gossip, political moves, and tech wonders. Mentions a Monte Carlo card cheat rising £5000 richer, financier Heari Rochelle arrested for dubious company ventures, and a dramatic court scene with a detainee preferring jail over other fates. Reports on Fremantle bridge funding, Western Australia rail freight talks, and early X ray and wireless telegraphy advances. A curious, cross-cuting page of era miscellany.
A practical method for ultra cheap housing using sand and lime bricks 18 by 9 by 6 inches. 25 bricks cost lime and labor, total £79 4s if made by a man, or £11 15½ if the maker does it himself. Includes two front rooms, back room, doors, windows, flooring, and roof with a skilled mason for finish.
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