26 Apr 1938
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Newspaper
Gloucester Advocate
Location
Gloucester, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Apr 26, 1938
Page
1
A local supplier advertises New Wool de Chenel Double Width in popular shades and heavy quality dress flannel at 2/11 per yard. All wool dress lengths in plain and two tone flecked designs priced from 21/11. Ladies wool cardigans from 4/11 to 35/-. A new range of winter millinery offers the latest shapes and colours with made to match services for hats in any size and colour.
A storyteller recalls a notorious booze tale from Australia’s West, detailing Pro’s ill fated marriage to a con artist who drains his fortune in Perth and Hingland. He returns to work as desertion leads to a life of labor while the wife wins a lifetime weekly allowance.
A rustic narrator mocks two men in a mining town. One man, meek and defeated by his wife’s presence at a saloon, is ridiculed for his cowardice and weakness. A self styled horse breaker boasts he would dominate Mary Whisper, claiming mastery and control. The other man is seen as reckless, a blazing meteor with multiple drinking pots, dwelling on gold mining bravado.
Singer dropheads priced from £9 10s and round shuttles from £10 10s with full enclosed cabinets from £12 10s. Easy terms with a 20 shilling deposit. All makes repaired. W Bedford agents Garners Cab Stores and Rooms, Pultney St, Taree.
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