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Newspaper
Gloucester Advocate
Location
Gloucester, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Apr 26, 1935
Page
3
A poultry department expert argues pullets hatched in June and July make better breeding stock than older hens. Advocates single breeding pens, using offspring from those pens for future seasons, and warns against overemphasis on high producers due to inbreeding and weaker progeny.
Fifteen year old Peter Hemphill acts quickly when his parents topple 400 feet from a cliff at Port Isaac Cornwall. He phones coastguards after seeing his father die and helps his mother before she dies in hospital. Major Robert Hemphill and his wife perish. fishermen recover the body.
A collage of brief items covers theatre scarcity in London and cinema absence, infant mortality in Ceylon, Britain’s mail volume, school hand preference, synagogue membership rules, cemetery music plans, desk fit in Wycombe, life policies, dairy cow ages, photography pace, civil service women, global land division, Hollywood earnings, bootblacks dwindling, civil service marriage rules, women in German universities, school medicine operations, UK license totals, foreign workers, Prague billiard prodigy, Benin umbrellas, church collections, scrap rubber heating, steel plate testing, Roosevelt mail, East Grinstead awards, Sussex water supply, and French shop assistants.
The Times notes the 100th anniversary of Captain Cook’s widow on May 13 and May 1 services at St Andrew’s Cambridge. It recalls her 66 years as a widow, 17 years married, and 41 years without her children, praising her public strength and resilience.
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