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Newspaper
Gloucester Advocate
Location
Gloucester, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Dec 03, 1929
Page
4
In a sunlit dusk Judith steals a chocolate from Gran while Bobby and Gran share a tender moment. The looming end of Gran’s life casts a gentle, bittersweet mood as grim reality settles with the fading light in Dungog NSW.
Five visitors were locked inside the Arc de Triomphe in Paris during a nighttime incident. Authorities reported the unusual confinement occurred after the group entered the monument and became trapped, prompting an emergency response.
The quarterly revenue report shows increases across most items for the three months to September, with total revenue at £14,081,931 up from £11,879,269. Expenditure exceeded receipts by £556,947, though post office surplus stood at £131,222 and railways posted a £192,936 deficit. The public debt reached £1,098,890,010. Crime of Cricket notes England’s early legal ban on the game and the origin of the hat trick term tied to top hats and a later cash guinea.
Our chicks thrive and grow true to type hatched from selected stock. Prices cut on Black Orpingtons 45 shillings per dozen, White Leghorns 12 shillings per dozen. Chicks available from February 10. Incubator capacity 99,500.
At the Chel sea Flower Show in England a renowned event, displays total valued around £50,000. Orchids alone reach about £30,000 with a single tin pot plant selling for £350. Six aircraft transported plants across 2000 miles for the exhibit. A London watch dealer sold a second hand watch marked as unclaimed for years, later found to be the owner’s lost watch. A New York dollar test tracked its 27 transfers over 14 days through many goods and services.
A young man from the Stir of Great Silu in arrived in London with almost no money. He began by addressing envelopes for 10s a week. He once shared tea with Mr. McDonald who could not afford tea and drank hot water instead. His daily meal for months was a threepenny beefsteak pudding with more pudding than steak.
Gloucester Girls Auxiliary and Friends present a three act comedy The Test on December 9 and 10 at Barrington Hall and Star Theatre Gloucester. The cast includes local and former district actors under Mrs S Russel Scott with a lively, witty performance promising value for money and family entertainment. The programme also notes a ministerial entertainment featuring Ramsay MacDonald on December 9 in Barrington Hall and a second Star Theatre event in December.
The piece argues spending money creates lifelong obligations and opportunities cost. It suggests spending £100 now commits you to future payments and that most people forgo 4 percent annual interest by spending instead of saving. It advocates keeping money in a savings account to earn 4 percent per year.
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