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Newspaper
Gloucester Advocate
Location
Gloucester, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Jan 19, 1934
Page
3
Catalog style sale listing ladies dresses hats and lace items plus men’s shirts and trousers. Includes Panama hats glazed lace hats floral frocks bloomers and bloomers for children, plus uniforms such as Oxford shirts and swimming trunks. Many sizes and shades in Lemon Apricot Blue Green and White with price tags like 7/11 and 2/9.
A damaged notice from Street & Parish Ltd. claims 80 years of faithful service and urges readers to write for easy terms, mentioning a customer named B Crowley of 19 Tweed Street Christchurch. The misspelled text references rheumatism and a recovery tale, with hints of a sales pitch for the PALING'S brand.
A 96 mile canal links Lake Michigan to the Illinois River at Utica enabling a New Orleans barge flotilla to carry spices coffee and sugar as the first commercial cargo. The Illinois River to Lake Michigan canal cost 20 million pounds and features five locks handling 30 000 tons daily, bridging 1291 feet elevation difference. The Mississippi Valley system is expected to boost Midwestern industry to Seaboard parity.
Amid economic and political strain Berlin honored a brewer who rediscovered the long lost Hussite beer formula. The founder, now a national hero, sought to guide his son into brewing as archives in Bernal yielded the 14th century records. The opening ceremonies saw heavy consumption of the beer.
The funeral of Viscount Cowdray was held in Eastbourne Sussex on October 7. The body rested in a plain oak coffin conveyed from Cowdray House on a farm wagon drawn by two horses. Family floral tributes accompanied by 200 estate workers followed as ten of the oldest employees acted as pallbearers.
Dr Morris argues disease shaped social change by eroding empires and altering hygiene measures. He notes malaria in Europe’s centuries long grip, bubonic plague in Rome and Avignon, Vienna, Cairo, and Paris, and its role in feudal decline and later progress. Cholera’s arrival in 1830s England spurred water reform, despite late public-health action.
Rex Research Fellowship warns the fly harbors millions of disease germs and leaves vomit spots on food. They cite flies carrying many blood diseases and urge use of proven liquid fly spray to minimize the menace. Also reports Australian gold price at Melbourne Mint for the week ending January 12 with premiums and assay values.
Bowes the Yorkshire and England cricketer and his wife have moved into a new house at Menston on the edge of the moors. The dwelling was built for Bowes with higher ceilings and wider doorways. He notes he has not bumped his head yet.
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