Angel in Moleskins and the Camp Bride
A narrator recounts a rough frontier camp encounter with a striking woman, nicknamed the angel in white moleskin pants, who defies rough bush manners. Amid jokes and fights, a train platform memory ties to his mother’s cautions and a future romance with Mary Ryan, leading to a surprise marriage and a life on a sheep station.
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Paradise
Mary
Tim
Han Dan Ryan
Ryan
Beast Turner
Bolter
Yang
Tsai
Mother
Winifred
Percy
de Montfort
Howard
Howart Towers
Sussex
Mother Waas
Mayfair
Dan Ryan
Madge Rothmere
Dan
Europe
Mary Ryan
Seraph
Perey
Lou
Gott
Tniversity
Fly menace and home defense urged in health notice
A health advisory warns that house flies carry disease and contaminate milk meat and babies. It urges thorough cleaning and using a human safe insect spray like Fly Tox to keep homes fly free through summer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jung
Avery
Not Worth the Candle and the Scottish Card Theories
The misspelled excerpt explores explanations for the idiom not worth the candle linked to the Battle of Culloden and a wager game named Comettee. It mentions Lord Stair and the Glencoe massacre, coat of arms lozenges, and a tale of mint and forget-me-not as a humorous aside about a bill.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lord, Stair
Glencoe
Defective eyesight and worker welfare in industry
The piece stresses eyesight as vital to worker contentment and productivity. It cites the Eyesight Consultative Council findings that 44 of 100 workers had defective vision, urges regular eye exams by trained ophthalmologists, warns against buying glasses without proper check, and underscores eye care as essential to safety, accuracy, and overall health.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States of America
Eyesight Consultative Council
Pergona Specialy
Borax in the Home Cleaning Guide
A home care guide extols borax as a versatile helper for painting cleanup cooking and laundry. It explains dissolving borax in boiling water for paint removal softening water aiding washing of dishes and fabrics and preserving colors. It also notes borax as a cleaner for kettles drains sponges and silverware and suggests dilute borax solutions for minor wounds and fabric care.
Severe coal shortage feared in Germany this week
Fragmentary report notes a likely coal shortage in Germany affecting fuel distribution as wartime tensions rise. A second fragment mentions a domestic incident where a wife reports violence at home, including a spoon attack described in rough terms.
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Germany
Puehrer
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Garden OF Roses Cafe
Peter
Horlick
Gloucester 2
Bennett Radio & Garage Service
Gloucester
M. L. E., Monro
Market Street
W. T. Howard
Taree
Dungog
England
Pitt, Son & Badgery, Ltd
Sydney
Winchcombe
Carson
Winchcombe, Carson Ltd
Difly
Sears
Winieheumbe
Lid
Winehrombe House
Bridge St
Flemington
THE
Farmers & Graziers Co-Operative Grain Insurance & Agency Company
Advocate
Gloucester Advocate
Barrington ST
Tales OF the West
Angel IN Moleskins
Tai
Tals
Diamentina
Ant
Mya
Oxford
Eich Conten
Hallo
Cissy
Mama
Great Wide West
Tom Hicks
Queen Street
Co. J. Devenport
Prom
Thomas Cowan & Co
Tudor ST
Newcastle
O'Connell ST
W. Brooker
Box
Street & Parish Pty, Ltd
Golden Gate Cafe
Kendall's Buildings
E. Young
Health Department
Borax
W. Bates General
Tyrell Street
Grahame
Denison Street
W. Bates
Jas. Fleming
Gloucester & District
Frank Foley
E. Patmore
G.E Research Laboratory
Gloucester Electric Supply Co. Pty. Ltd
Linisy
Ir Meller
Auatratia
Carlyle
Pany Lons
Commonwealth Savings Bank of Australia
Eford
A.M.P. Society
Sir Samuel Hordern
Kb.e
A.W. Sneddon
F.la
Ale. Webb
Gearal
New South Wales Mead
Fitt Street
Victoria & Pulteney Sts
W. B. G. Davidson
T. M. Breckenridge
D. K. McLeod
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