Bargain Lot of Woolens and Linens on Sale
A local sale advertises discounts on wide ranges of clothing and home textiles. Including flannel and tweed fabrics, stockings, curtains, children’s pajamas, cardigans, bloomers, socks, and towels. Notable items: wool tweed, silk blends, and all wool blankets with prices slashed. bed and mattress items such as kapok mattresses and bush rugs also marked down. Sale periods run in February and March with various sale prices.
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EACT
O.S
Indiana Sox
Queensland Walnut tree sells for record price in Australia
The Queensland Walnut log, cut into a giant logo, sold for £1400 to a leading Sydney firm, a record price for a tree in Australia. The tree, likely the largest walnut felled in Atherton, required four days to fell, four to cut, and transport by tractor and 82 bullocks to the station.
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Queensland
Sydney
Australia
Atherton
Hemisphere
United States
Britain Wins Davis Cup Final Over Australia 3 2
Britain defeats Australia in the Davis Cup challenge round by three matches to two. In the final singles A K Quist of Australia beat W Austin of Britain after a five set battle, while F J Perry of Britain defeated J Crawford of Australia in straight sets on a damp court with poor evening light.
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Britain
Australia
A. K. Quist
W. Austin
F. J. Perry
J. Crawford
Quist
Crawford
Perry
Various Brief World News Snippets and Notices
Foster mothers registered to care for other women's children number 15,000 in Britain. In Britain, 1 in 30,000 bail cases fail to surrender on time. Britons eat more fruit. Port of London imports reached 530,000 tons last year. In Germany, cockchafers devastate crops including apples, wheat, and potatoes. One third of 73,000 London theft cases involved under £1. Continental dancing follows England. the tango does well. The London Directory shows Smith as the commonest surname occupying 17 pages. Roman remains and coins uncovered at Dorchester building site. Southern Rhodesia census shows European population up 11% to 55,395. Asiatic coloured up 31% to 5874. natives employed up 41% to 254,235. The Earl of Harewood resigns as Grand Supreme Ruler of the Order of the Secret Monitor. Lord Courtenay installed in his place.
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Britain
Courts of Justice
London
Germany
England
Smith Instit
Jones
Taylor
Ruth
Esther
Na‘inal Institute For the Blind
Ita
Dorchester
Southern
Rhodesia
Earl of Harewood
Order of the Secret Monitor
Masonie
Lord Courtown
The Indian Tree of Life exhibition in Ceylon Home Aldwych
A recent display at Ceylon Home Aldwych showcases the cocoanut palm and its 200 products. The tree provides food, drink, fuel, light, construction materials, bedding, and funeral pyre uses, with Kerala kernel as the main commercial yield. Copra, cocoanut oil, desiccated coconut, toddy and jaggery are highlighted, along with wide range of fiber, wood, and manufactured items from husk, shell, and fruit.
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Ceylon
Aldwych
Europe
America
Japan
Mixed historical notes and rumors span continents
A ragbag of dated items notes John Birch claiming Crimean War service and 113rd birthday in Nipissing Junction Ontario, Bihar research on Asco wood preservation, Romanian waiters shaved heads by ordinance, census wanderers in London, Grand National times, a Dutch East Indies governor general appointment, Samuel Hoare appoints private secretaries, and sale of an Essex island near Cincton-on-Sea. Also Wilderhope house near Much Wenlock bought by British National Trust for a youth hostel.
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John Birch
Russia
Canada
Nipissing Junction
Ontario
Forest Research Department
Bihar
Asco
Romania
London
Golden Miller
Shaun“ Spadah
Jonkheer A. W. L. Tjarda van Starkenborgh Stachouwer
Dutch East Indies
Brus
Samuel Hoare
Admiralty
H. V. Markham
M.C
Principa
R. R.powell
Seerra
W. Astor
Os 7
Essex
Cincton-on-sea
Blackwater Bay
F.N. Charrington
Cadbury Trust
Wilderhope
British National ‘Trust
Wilderhape
Wenlonk Ridge
Much Wenock
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Grime & Small
Gloucester
iWin Sale
W. A. Dan
Gloucester & Taree
Egypt
S.M. Herald
UIST
Cartwright
Elfrida Brand
Moore's Modern Pharmacy
Street & Parish
Nairn
Armstrong
SW. W
Burson
Ierwaaerie
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