Fragmented Yarn Selloff Notes Prices and Sizes
Readable fragment shows yarn items with prices per ounce and quantities including skeins at one quarter and one fifth and one seventh of a unit. Mentions baby wool balls but details are incomplete.
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Newspaper
Geraldton Guardian
Location
Geraldton, Western Australia, Australia
Date
Sep 17, 1949
Page
1
Readable fragment shows yarn items with prices per ounce and quantities including skeins at one quarter and one fifth and one seventh of a unit. Mentions baby wool balls but details are incomplete.
Passengers traveling by the Midland Railway Company bus between Perth and Geraldton are listed for trips from Perth on Thursday and Friday and from Geraldton on tiday and Saturday. The roster includes numerous named individuals and families, with numerous spellings and repeats across legs of the journey.
A listing of recent air travellers with names for Geraldton to Perth on Friday and Saturday, and Geraldton to Carnarvon and Perth to Geraldton on Saturday. The roster includes Messrs, Mesdames, Misses and Mrs names such as F Clarke P H Stratton L J Pickeragell J Burridge P Boucaut L Bensley A North L Sturcke M Cherry B Gullan E Mitchell V Blens E Sealy M McMillan BR Lee BR Shenstone R Crabbe B Crabbe L Spencer M Rosco B Spencer F Major KR Finch F Hall W Wyatt J Shepperd J Lamp E Lamp.
Five passengers travelled from Geraldton to the Murchison River Camp today. Mesera BR Finch, W Wyatt, and J Shepherd were among those listed, with additional travellers named.
A Geraldton committee decided to cease operations of the Visiting Nurse Scheme from September 30. The Silver Chain District and Bush Nursing Association will hold assets in trust for any future Geraldton district nursing scheme, with ongoing attention to reestablishment if justified.
Sir Stafford Cripps, returning from Washington, says the dollar conference offers a new road to solve Britain's economic difficulties though not ensuring a higher standard of living. He plans to brief Prime Minister Attlee and may broadcast soon, reiterating no pound devaluation. The Economist questions the policy's credibility and sterling area viability into 1962.
In Milton Ernest Bedfordshire a local Territorial Army officer used a metal detector to probe a sick cow. The detector found metal in the animal's stomach and a nail was extracted.
Church of England holds services from 8 a.m. to 7.30 p.m. with Holy Communion, Morning Prayer, Baptism and Sermon led by Rev. J. H. Gregson. Presbyterian and Methodist churches feature morning and evening services, Sunday School, and family or kindergarten activities led by Rev. J. H. Gregson and Rev. T. L. Nicholls. Salvation Army lists multiple meetings, classes, and open air events with location notes Bluff Point Geraliften Marine Terrace and Hatt. Church of Christ offers Sunday School at 10 a.m. and Worship at 11 a.m.
The Radio Theatre tonight features Ann Sheridan Lew Ayres and Zachary Scott in The Unfaithful and Rhonda Fleming and taut Kelly in Adventure Island. Next Monday to Wednesday evenings offer The Brasher Doubloon The Dark Corner and related titles with Lucille Ball Clifton Webb William Bendix and Mark Stevens headlining.
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