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Newspaper
Gloucester Advocate
Location
Gloucester, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Aug 23, 1938
Page
4
A vivid account of Old Cairo’s Christian quarter along the Nile, describing hidden churches, austere gates, and ritual practices. The piece recalls Roman fortifications, Trajan’s gateway, and the mix of Coptic and Greek customs, including relic veneration, women's seating, and holy baths.
In Old Cairo the Coptic churches, long hidden from sight, reveal marble naves and hundreds of tholis beneath a veil of age. Visitors enter a museum of primitive Christianity, visiting sites like St Sergius and the Hanging Church with cedar screens and ivory inlays.
After 18 years of study the sardine is termed a hobo of the sea by the California State Fisheries Laboratory. The migratory fish travels from Lower California to Canada in yearly spawning cycles, with young staying in warm southern waters before northward movement. By age 10 it ranges to British Columbia and finally ventures toward Japan where caught fish are sent to the United States.
Tf McDonal FBC honours PSM London of Webster Jack and McDonald Sydney Pty Limited Opticians to consult at the Commercial Hotel Gloucester on Friday September 30 from 9 am to 5 pm.
An advertisement by Street & Parish Ltd offers a rheumatic remedy marketed by Mr H C Wallingas of Farrell Avenue Ring Cross Sydney. The seller claims the treatment is effective and includes a genuine money-back guarantee with a certificate. Readers are urged to request a booklet for more details.
Read about exotic produce and ornamental plants from a new catalog. Jennie B. Harris in Country Gentleman highlights peppers like lemon cucumbers and peach tomatoes, climbing gourds, muskmelons, beans tasting of chestnuts, and flowers such as forget me not roses and yellow marigolds. The piece notes sales in Australia and seasonality, with vibrant descriptions of unusual varieties and garden novelties.
Mrs. Christian Munt Ballantine, soon to be Mrs Kenneth Ballantine, plans to start housekeeping at a mud hut station near Uyo in south east Nigeria. The couple, just married, will be the only white residents within about 50 miles. Ballantine says life among locals will be thrilling though snakes and lizards alarm him. They intend to return home after 18 months on leave.
Galroyal a bay gelding owned by Mr G Crichton and trained by Mr T Short in Yours sip drinks water unusually slowly. The animal laps a bucket in hours, not minutes, due to suspected throat obstruction. A Sydney veterinarian, surprised by the case, suggested nose strap restraint to encourage normal drinking behavior.
Public library data shows over half of Westminster's four libraries' loans last year were non fiction. An 85 year old Birmingham man, Frederick John Turfey, fell 30 feet from a fridge to a railway line, injuring his spine and breaking a leg as a train halted just before him.
In a perplexing case a hare named Sare Wopliie is reported to drink rainwater before racing. Trainer J. Smith from Young notes no similar issue in his years with horses and doubts the creature will race normally. Burton the railway vermin has a namesake in Saskatchewan, a small she hewithe by the railway.
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