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Newspaper
Gloucester Advocate
Location
Gloucester, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Apr 12, 1935
Page
3
Bargain sale item list includes ladies haircord frocks at half price, cotton suede gloves, calico aprons with two-stranded cottons, white tennis shoes, children’s knit wear, ribbed socks, bloomers, striped tea towels, heavy twill calico and unbleached towels priced to clear. Includes sizes and discounted prices with brief product details.
Secretary for Railways informs Mr. Bennett that the Down Kempsey Mail will not call at the 20 ft Berico platform due to its limited length. Up Kempsey Mail also won’t stop there. Goods parcels may be handled under platform conditions, but passenger calls are rejected as precedent.
Muswellbrook Stock Inspector Mr T W Hammer attacks dehorning practices calling them cruel and unnecessary. He favors potash rubs on calves and argues for legislation with RSPCA and RAS to criminalize such methods, noting hornless breeds exist for herds.
Leslie Bowles of Lowestoft Suffolk at age two years nine months weighs 7 stone 7 pounds and is only just able to stand. Doctors say weight comes from fat not skeleton overgrowth. Parents describe a healthy temperament and exceptional quick brain, with the boy able to sign hymns and recite poetry.
London lists four Trafalgar Squares in total with the well known one in the center. The others appear in Stepney Chelsea and Peckham.
Joe Bonomo, the "screen Hercules," recounts a career of dangerous feats for thrill pictures. He describes nearly fatal leaps from heights, airborne dives, and collisions, noting dozens of injuries from a life of stunt work and the loss of many club members.
A Biel la landlord offers tenants free rent for each new baby and gives a 3s 4d money-box to the child. Other brief notes report thieves brick by brick halt a Moravian villa project, Paris boasting quirky street names, a mouse family nesting in a wireless set, and a Viennese actor learning of his mother's death after a play's first night. London tramways shift to trolleybuses, England’s tram undertakings decline, oats dealers numbered, and railway staff drop by about 10 percent in a decade with Ababrelton to Zygouras as the London Post Office Directory’s first and last names.
Winchcombe Carson Ltd reports rabbit skins at Wednesday’s Sydney sale totalled 54 tons with good demand and rising values. Prices by grade rose, several categories listed with new high ranges, while the fortune teller anecdote appears as a curious inserted item.
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