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Newspaper
Gloucester Advocate
Location
Gloucester, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Apr 09, 1921
Page
1
An 1825 Port Macquarie notice details a prisoner condemned for execution without trial and a later brutal murder in the cool ward. The killer, weary of life, claimed he wished to be hanged, while the coroners jurors record a fatal axe strike and prolonged death, noting the prisoner’s motive and the brutal method.
State revenue for the first nine months shows a rise of 2,456,630 over last year but remains 12,089,604 short of the estimates with only three months left to meet them. Some hope rests on the final quarter, typically productive for revenue. Income tax, company returns, and other major items fall due toward the end of the year.
Inspector Bazancott of West Maitland, NSW, is praised on leave before retirement. He plans a trip to his native country and relatives, expecting to return in November to settle at Wineham. Acknowledgments from the Maitland force note his service, patriotism, and community work.
The Rutherford military training camp for newly civilian trainees born after 1982 commenced on Thursday with about 1200 expected from Hunter River district Northern line and north coast. Colonel Lorenso will command the camp Major Masterbrook will be camp quartermaster Captain Codden assists the adjutant. Staff were present last week finalizing preparations and camp equipment is being transported from Farley.
The text recalls the battle of Villers Brettoneux on April 4 in 1918 and the Allied offensive actions on March 21 near the Somme front. It notes Allied cooperation between France and Britain and the swift recovery enabling the retreat of German forces, highlighting Australian battalions in the final Great War push.
Sir Don ald Town quotes a stark claim that few people have upheld civilization in Africa as Dr Po Balfowr-Browne lectures on the mosquito and malaria at the Torni min Museum Forest Hill. The talk asserts half the world’s population once faced the disease and that malaria has touched the history of nations including in the United States.
Fragmented passage describes a long past illness burden in Texas with reference to five billion dollar losses and a focus on yellow fever. Mentions to mosymite, goats, and a colonel named Carga driving out yellow fever and an entomologist’s work. Tone resembles a historical, possibly sensationalized medical chronicle.
About three million Italians seek passage to the United States as steamship agencies in Italy struggle with demand. Long queues form outside main offices as steamer and third class tickets go on sale.
The concert ended fatally for Mise Henrietta Brown after a collapse on stage. An inquest found death by heart failure following a long bout of lung strain. Officials say an autopsy confirmed the cause and the Advocate Office will handle further actions.
A compendium of curious claims covering human population, monkey dentition, lunar cycles, merchant shipping tonnage, rubber chemistry, sea life, Bermuda rules on automobiles, college strikes, copper’s rust-preventing effects, and biographical notes on manatees and Brontomuris.
A London sale fetched £200 for ancient Roman battle standards and a folding camp chair dug up in Kesex a century ago. Other notes report public school crowding, a new London telephone system, lakes that resist freezing, and an Arctic oil find near Fort Norman with costly pipeline estimates.
The new Viennese tax targets so called luxury dogs with a 3000 kronen annual levy, forcing many owners to abandon or euthanize pets. Mongrel dogs are exempted, enabling wealthier owners to keep pedigreed breeds while poorer residents face dog deaths as burglars gain advantage.
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