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Newspaper
Geraldton Guardian
Location
Geraldton, Western Australia, Australia
Date
Sep 25, 1926
Page
4
The Commonwealth Bank of Australia establishes a central branch offering savings accounts and money boxes. With branches in major towns and savings bank agencies in all post offices, customers can transfer funds directly from their hometown.
A narrator muses on the rapid urban development shaping San Francisco style districts with imposing new buildings while old business sites vanish. He notes youth and beauty streaming to work amid progress and wonders about employment and home life behind the city’s bustling front. A bookseller recounts a comically tangled account rendering dispute.
A vintage column classifies women by leg shape and gait, linking ankle thickness to personality and social roles. It describes flappers with thin ankles as ambitious, clever types and thick ankles as hardworking, practical homemakers, noting racial stereotypes in ancestral lines.
A vivid tour of a large timber yard and mill workshop, describing saws, planing machines, and furnaces feeding into power. It notes crowds of workers and an unusual scene of women in a warehousing queue, then sketches a list of suggested inventions from electric lights to flexible glass and heatless hair curling.
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