Labour in Office In Britain New Cabinet Formed
London reports the new British Cabinet under Prime Minister Mr Rameau MacDonald. Key figures include W A Jowett as Attorney General filling a Labour entry, Sidney Webb as Secretary of State for Dominions Affairs, Margaret Bondfield as first female Cabinet minister for Labour, Phillip Snowden as Chancellor, and Arthur Henderson as Foreign Affairs Secretary. MacDonald promises swift action on employment, relief works, reconstruction, and disarmament with plans for League Assembly attendance in September.
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London
Rameau MacDonald
W. A. Jowett
K.C
Jowett
Liberal
Labour Party
Sidney Webb
Margaret Bondfield
Labour
Phillip Snowden
Arthur Henderson
Wr. MacDonald
MacDonald
United Bases
Aembly
Commercial Homebush Stock Sales Opens in Firm Tone
Sydney cattle sale opens with strong demand for prime lines at Homebush. Quality yarding shows drought impact in Hunter Valley with plain stock predominant. Gloucester consignments fetch top prices, while fat pigs reach 10s 6d to 12s per hundred, heavy makers rising amid brisk bidding.
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Homebush
Sydney
Gloucester
Hamberger
J. N. Laurie & Sons Ltd
Winchcombe Carson Ltd
Hunter Valley
E. W. Sparke
J. Enright
Boy Geoffrey Knott May Be With Two Men In Train Brake Van
Police last week secured information suggesting Geoffrey Knott, missing for six weeks, is not read but with two men in a brake van of a train at Clearfield siding on April 20. A. P. Dudgeon of Clearfield identified a photo and provided descriptions of the two men, prompting messages to Queensland police.
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Geoffrey Knott
North
Queensland
A. P. Dudgeon
Clearfield
Grafton Casino
Clearfield Siding
Mr. Dudgeon
Knott
T Fent
Benn
Queensland Police
Presbyterian and Strood church scores listed
Craven fourteen, Stratford twenty, Glou weton with Rev S Russell Scott. Strood Baptist Church Wintford one, Weaver three seven Strood oy SA Tuckeson.
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Presbyterian Church
Craven
Stratford
Glouweton
Strood Baptist Church
Wintford
Weaver
Strood Oy SA
Tuckeson
Parson's Red Rose XX Guernsey Milk Yields High Test
Productive Guernsey Parson's Red Rose XX. of Wollonbar Experiment Farm completed a full year test yielding 16,492 lb milk and 944,091 lb fat. Official record for 273 days shows 18,650 lb milk and 778.47 lb fat. Milked thrice daily with pasture and lucerne, plus a concentrate mix including maize oats bran and flaxseed meal, feeding adjusted later to equalize output.
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Wollongbar
Guernsey
Wollonbar
Hereford Tomb Mystery Reveals Denton Centuries Old
Hereford Cathedral houses an alabaster tomb of Sir Alexander Denton and his wife Anne, famed for a tragic love story. New discoveries challenge the tale, with a Hillsden church boasting an identical inscription and scholars planning an open examination by a Birmingham archaeologist.
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Hereford
Hereford Cathedral
Alexander Denton
Anne
Hyllesdon
Buckyngham
Hys Wyffe
Richard Wyllyson
Sugger
Buckinghamshire
Hillsden
Sir Alexander Denton
Hilleden Church
Birmingham
April Fools Day Tram Prank Stuns Birmingham Crowd
On Easter Monday 1929 Birmingham holidaymakers queued for tramcars to the Lickey Hills. A man in a blue serge suit and bowler hat announced a fleet of omnibuses would replace trams and charge the same fare, drawing thousands to Town Hall only to learn it was April 1. The prankster rode a tram to the hills while the crowd realized the joke.
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Birmingham
Tramcara
Lickey Hills
Corporation
Gloucester to Newcastle Train Schedule Fragment
Fragmentary travel notice records departures from Gloucester to Newcastle with times and destinations. Mentions departure from Stroud and Raymond Torries, return times, arrival at Newcastle, and lodging at Heaton's Hotel. Includes inconsistent dates and misspelled place names.
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Gloucester
Tao
Stroud
Raymond Torries
Newcastle
Farr
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Street & Parish Ltd
Symington's
A. I. Cavanaugh
Bargai
Sharris
Gloucester Ae
Gloucester Advocate
McDonald's
Maitland
PAT Cattle
Grafton
Whatson
J. Whatson
Church Ge England
Trinity
Fev. Hi
W. Rogers
S. Russell Scott
Eivile Manning
Craven Creek
Barrington Hall T— Rey
Ar Fisher Webster
G. Nash
General Carrier
Nash Ravenshaw ST
Glouce
Ter
T. Charlton
A. Leslie
Shannon Vale
Gloucetser
Oushout Envy
Gloucester Electric Supply Co. Ltd
Eusy
N. Wilson
A. Flanagan
King Street
Knight
Chagrin
CAR For Hire
F. Mabon
H. J. Tull
Laken
A. E. ‘Tull
Phillips: Hotel
Oic Tove
North Coast Dairy Farm
Wingham
Dann
West Maitland
Ww. Davis
W. Davis
Tailor Church ST
W. Batger
Roslyn Sewing Machines
Roslyn Treadle
Ewing Machines
Roslyn Theale
Roslyn
James
Reuiabi
Hart & Coy
John Hart
Glouc Ofster Draper
Reliance Watches & Gods
W. A. Phillips
C. J. Beaton
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