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Newspaper
Gloucester Advocate
Location
Gloucester, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Jan 17, 1936
Page
3
German farmers on the Rothenbach frontier were sentenced to five months in prison each for using hens as smugglers. They fed hens in Holland to lay eggs for Germany where prices were higher, evading import duties on about 20,000 eggs found by customs authorities.
Chicago attorney John Keogh shot and killed rival lawyer Christopher Kinney in a courtroom and fired three times at the judge, who fled to a chamber as spectators hid. Keogh claimed he acted as a soldier in a real estate mortgage dispute, showing no remorse.
Customs officers on the Liege Paris night express uncover two valises hidden under bedding containing 1205 packs of cigarettes and perfume. Renne Bardin, a 28 year old French resident living in Verviers, admits taking the bags for delivery to another man and faces penalties exceeding 1000 pounds.
Reports on 11935 baby health centers show total attendance over 600000 for last year, up from 210000 eight years earlier. Dr Sandford Morgan notes more mothers and babies attend across the state, with infant death rate halved from 78 to 37 per 1000 births in twenty years.
Windsor Ontario reports author L M Montgomery MacDonald recounts that Anne of Green Gables faced five rejections before Page Company Boston accepted it after a staff reader from Prince Edward Island advocated for the book. Dr Isaac Kugelmass notes on parenting age and child traits. Britain’s police spend last year totals £23,693,456.
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