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Newspaper
Geraldton Guardian
Location
Geraldton, Western Australia, Australia
Date
May 20, 1916
Page
4
Mrs Anderson presents The Bon Marche latest velvet hats and millinery from Melbourne. Hats trimmed to order on the shortest notice, with new mounts wings and flowers on display as inspections invited.
Sara confronts Freeth and Connington over the Kraalstone Mining Company prospectus as memories of a past shared with Freeth haunt them. She schemes to regain control and love, recalling a farm near the mine and a hidden acre, while Agonizing over Jim’s absence and the elusive plans that could secure their future. The tension pivots on money, trust, and a dangerous plan to leverage Freeth’s property for power.
A fragmented tale unfolds where Tim Hastings dominates a cave and imposes a bargain of love and marriage on a unnamed woman. She resists selling her future yet seems drawn to a chilling fate, while distant figures like Causa Bag and Amba appear in a murky web of desire and doom.
A garbled notice reports Toledo Ohio proposing a morality ordinance banning public display of female ankles and shins. It notes practical enforcement issues, suggesting measurement by officers and potential need for a chart to define limits and placement of uniforms.
A prisoner’s letter recounts British submarine E7’s audacious Marmora raid. The crewman praises Commander Cochrane, claims bombardment of a Turkish port, railway and train destruction, and torpedoing a wharf arsenal. He describes heavy enemy fire, thrilled reception in Constantinople, and the crew’s mudstained, exhausted state after action.
A crowd at Boulder watches a Sunday football match with players chasing a rolling ball amid jokes about the game’s seriousness. A spectator asks if this is a fair dinkum tall match as a spaniel carries a piece of paper across the green while the event continues under light crowd banter.
Russians deploy chasseur troops called hotniki in winter uniforms with rifles and supplies, operating near Olmetz and Brest, destroying German trains and disrupting railways. Volunteers from intellectual classes, students, adventurers, and even girls join bands aiding peasants, with some uniforms swapped to peasant garb and shelter found among sympathetic locals. Dostoyevsky lauds the remarkable Russian people and their voluntary mobilization.
A wartime note recounts a soldier hit by shell blasts in a tree and enduring neuralgic pain in his face. He recalls the attack, the German shelling, and his claim that the injury led to a neuralgia due to the blast.
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