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Newspaper
Gloucester Advocate
Location
Gloucester, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Jan 22, 1937
Page
1
Paris strike style thwarts work stoppage with calm unity
A broad French strike from Paris to industries spared violence and kept plants running. Workers halted production at signal, avoided damage, and maintained wages and safety protocols, while cafes and shops dimmed and communities supplied essentials. Massive union shifts followed, boosting the CGT as a national power.
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France
Iker
Paris
Resessitier
Action Francaise
Humenite
Gennevilliera
Water divining not a falacy in Australian debate
Mr Harry Biddle of Glen Innes challenges a Tamworth contractor who mocks underground streams using divining rods and wires. Biddle cites 25 years locating wells with success when dug deep enough, noting failures only when depths were insufficient. He describes a belief in a "feeling" as he crosses underground water and explains a green leaf in his mouth adheres to his palate until over water is met.
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Harry Biddle
Glen Thnes
Tamworth
Biddle
Glen Innes
Bide
White
Mr. Birdle
Baldry
Electricity charges eyed to drop under state scheme
Government plans for nationwide electrical development foresee lower city and country charges. Premier Mr Stevens named £8.5 million for railway electrification and £3.5 million for hydro electric expansion, with potential a central power authority granted autonomous finance subject to Loan Council approval and Commonwealth cooperation. An optician visit by D I McDonald of Webster Janik McDonald will be at Commercial Hotel Gloucester January 22, 9 am to 5 pm. appointments urged.
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Mr. Stevens
Stevens
Optician
McDonald
F B.O
Hensure
F.s.mc
London
Webster Janik & McDonald
Sydney
Commercial Hotel
Gloucester
Faithful reporting praised in old council mischief tale
A long anecdote from a 1878 Mudgee Borough Council meeting shows Alderman in a drunken tirade defending a fellow member, while the mayor and others react with laughter. The speaker claims press freedom to report speeches and asks for order as disruptions continue.
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Mudgee
Mudgeer
Genvelmen
Baldermen
Brother Kelman
Balderman
Mayer
Tm Halderman Jimmy
Mish ‘Mayer
Bullocks with curved horns fined for cruel shipment
James William Dundas Robertson, grazier of South Woordehah, fined £2 8s and costs for sending two bullocks with severely curved horns to Waratah yards causing unnecessary suffering. A Newcastle summons court heard the bulls, rail-shipped Nov 12, 1986, were in bad condition at Waratah saleyards.
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Spring Ridge
Waratah
James William Dundas Robertson
South Woordehah
Newcastle
Constable Lyons
B. Helmore
Robertson
Sloane
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