Humor of Young Farmers and Her Ear Was Dow
A brief item notes humor among young farmers and references a phrase about her ear being dow. The readable fragment suggests a light rural vignette likely from a column or humorous note in a local paper.
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Newspaper
Gloucester Advocate
Location
Gloucester, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Aug 04, 1933
Page
3
A brief item notes humor among young farmers and references a phrase about her ear being dow. The readable fragment suggests a light rural vignette likely from a column or humorous note in a local paper.
Rotary Club heard Victorian Education Director speak on the value of young farmers clubs. Log book tale of Nellie the calf shows mixed results from care and optimism. Gippsland pupils plant cabbages, one wins by letting nature take its course. Essays warn You can kill a rake with kindness. Clubs promote cooperation, education, and rural stability amid urban drift. Central Asia hunt with trained golden eagles noted as sport.
The piece argues that in an economic struggle and crisis of self indolence, society would sacrifice lives to defend ideology but hesitates to act on self betterment. It calls for volunteers to lead an offensive against timidity, urging decisive action and courageous spirit to restore progress and prosperity.
Mr P P Watson of Melbourne argued automation fuels unemployment at the weekly Toowoomba Relay Cun gathering. He cited Britain’s automatic telephone with 27000 workers displaced, London tube escalators replacing lift attendants, and even auto rocking cradles in Czecho Slovakia as examples of machines reducing labor opportunities. He urged more focus on unemployment than politics.
A fragment mentions someone being put to sleep while others continued with household duties. The text is incomplete and lacks clear names, dates, places, or organizations to identify a fuller event.
The NRM A reports shatter-proof glass is now sold to motorists and used as a standard fitting on at least one car in production. Sydney opticians adopt safety glass for spectacles and claim it resists splintering in crashes. A Swansea fatal crash prompts debate on flood lighting and road safety. Turkey wealth allegedly wasted on foreign cars amid calls to curb automobile imports. NSW highway improvements on New England and Great Western routes expand curves and culverts for safer travel, though wet weather cautions remain.
Rabbit skins sold totals 129 tons with generally steady demand and scattered price variation. Heavy pelts and winters showed cheaper lines while other grades held with modest changes across finishes from first to fifth pelts and damaged categories. Prices ranged from 4d to 64d per pound depending on grade, condition, and quality.
At Feltham Middlesex a man was fined 2108 for a betting offence after a police sergeant testified he hid betting slips in a wooden leg. The leg was opened at the police station revealing eight slips. The defendant claimed the skin slid into his trousers but magistrates dismissed the explanation.
Sunday services listed for multiple faiths in Gloucester and surrounding places. Church of England at Suh Sunday after Trinity times in Gloucester Stratford Besdale and Gloucester. Presbyterian Gloucester 11 and 7. Methodist Waukivory 11 and 7. Congregational Mission Gloucester 11 Tugrabalch 2 Copeland 7. Presbyterian Free Church Barrington 11 Craven Creek 2.30 Barrington Hall 7. Fellowship not meeting tonight. Rev. H. W. Rogers Rev. A. Alexander Rev. J. Webster Mr. M. J. Battle
Cash sale offers include Ladies colored basque berets at two shillings eleven pence and Harmony Art Silk Fo s at one shilling nine pence. Round enamel boilers in 14 pint and 16 pint sizes priced at twelve nine and sixteen six respectively, 20 pint at seventeen six, plus 2 gallon oval enamel boilers at twenty one six.
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