Spanish Prisoner escape told by Don Juan March
Senor Don Juan March the millionaire royalist says he escaped a Spanish prison after 18 months of confinement. He reached Gibraltar on November 4 with help from an adjutant and the gaoler Senor Vargas. Madrid reports ministers will seek extradition from Britain.
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Superstition at Sea Death on a Tanker Plume
A sick Chinese quartermaster is landed in Sydney from the tanker Plume after a death onboard on a San Francisco to Sydney voyage. The tale centers on superstition about a buried body, a dog bird omen, and a crew fearing the departed’s spirit. One quartermaster who helped sew the shroud suffered a stroke but later returned to the ship.
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Giant cobras in 200 year venomous Himalayan king cobra cage
The London Zoo welcomed two king cobras from Mayala. One 13 ft long, the other 9 ft, both noted as highly venomous and unusually courageous. A rare Homeric fight occurred during transport when the larger cobra battled a Python, injuring both but the cobra prevailed. The reptiles’ diet and costs are discussed, with history of an earlier keeper’s fatal misassignment.
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Mosquitoes Targeted by Rex Fellowship Spray Advice
The Rex Research Fellowship warns mosquitoes are the era persistent tormentors and health threats. It urges spraying a genuine liquid insect spray ten minutes before bed to kill mosquitoes and curb disease transmission, noting inferior substitutes are ineffective.
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Rex
Strange Gilbertian case of French man in German service
A North of France man is arrested for avoiding military service by not only dodging French service but serving in the German army. He believed himself German due to German parents and being raised in Germany, but his birth in France and registration in the mairie make him a French subject under French law. He returned to his birthplace after the war with a German wife, raising questions of loyalty and legal status.
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France
Germany
Gums Die In Walgett Drought
A Walgett district landholder reports extreme drought with many tall gum trees dying during the dry period. After the rains, trunks regrew and the trees show life again, a phenomenon not seen since 1902. Also notes of piano exchanges offered by Paling's.
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Walgett
Second Duboisine poisoning case reported in Bellingen
The sufferer, an aboriginal child named Parberry, after treatment at Bellinger District Hospital, has recovered. Bark from the stomach was identified as Duboisin myoporides, the cork tree. The first local case involved a child who ate the leaves and died.
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Bellingen
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Bellinger District Hospital
Large dairy cows more profitable than small ones
Experiments in America show large dairy cows yield higher profit over feed costs than smaller cows. They require less maintenance energy per hundred pounds, due to lower surface area to weight ratio, and offer more room for the milk making machinery. If too much feed goes to beef, milk output declines.
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America
Byron Bay aims to curb beach overexposure says PM
In Byron Bay the Prime Minister calls for stopping beach overexposure while two men fined for carnival costumes worn down to their hips. Commentator Hawking threatens heavier penalties if practice continues as protests surface over beach attire and public order.
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Byron Bay
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The Alabaster Box of Sympathy Recalled
A Bis pane journal entry recalls a sermon style appeal to share kindness before death. It urges speaking loving words and sending flowers to brighten homes, noting post mortem kindness brings little comfort and the alabaster box of sympathy embodies true Christianity.
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Toacs
Extraordinary Mistake Sends Woman to Mental Institution
Mrs. Stanley P. Broad of New Zealand living in West London was seized by two ambulance men and taken to a mental institution by mistake. A doctor later found the error after examining a visiting card from her handbag.
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