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Newspaper
Gloucester Advocate
Location
Gloucester, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Mar 12, 1921
Page
1
North Gosst Shires favor abolishing State Parliaments with a plan to shift duties to county councils and local government. Delegates at the Central Northern Coastal Shires Association meeting discussed indirect paths, a Commonwealth movement, and urging a referendum to end State Parliaments while expanding local government functions.
Fragments recount Robert the Bruce, victory over England at Bannockburn, 1314, and later deathbed wish to send his heart to Jerusalem. Sir James Douglas bore Bruce heart to the Holy Land, Douglas killed in Spain, heart brought to Melrose Abbey, Bruce buried at Dunfermline where bones were found in 1818.
A Paria meanage reports the tomb of Berengere consort of Richard Coeur de Lion was relocated in Lemans Cathedral to honor war memorial space. Reinterment featured an organist, National Anthem, violet heaping, epaulet estate, and trilis or ribbons with an inscription praising Crusader King and France’s 1914-18 victims.
The passage describes a chaotic anti Soviet revolt with references to Bolshevik and Far East factions, Chinese mercenaries, and famine grievances. It claims workers strike over bread shortages while artillery casualties and foreign headhunters are cited as part of the conflict.
A Bristol seroplane owned by Mere Robinson Broa of Grafton, on passenger service at Casino, lost a wheel during landing and damaged the propeller. Three passengers plus the pilot Summers were hurt, with one onlooker noting “bent injury.” A second brief item mentions a man attempting to start his own adventure, only to be cautioned to return quietly.
A Glasgow railway season ticket returns spark a Boy Scout refuses reward claiming service. a Scots tale features a soldier and a private. Canadian millionaire’s daughter elopes with the butler prompting a comical newspaper headline about “Flees in Father’s Ponte.”
A collage of quirky quotes and scattered facts from a historical page. It references a fictional editor debating impossibilities, literature snippets, and assorted trivia about ancient Aubestog, frigate bird wings, Britain's shows, birth rates, army strength, and various world notes on coinage, magistrates, smokeless coal, St Pauls, chorus pay, parrots, and a Parisian handcraft industry.
An excise officer is sent to Treland to locate moonshine stills. He hires guide Pat with a promise of payment, and they trek over bog and moor toward a barracks where a soldier sits atop the square, signaling the early scene of a mission gone awry.
A timid knock at the parish hall door brings a strange man claiming to be a specimen of woman's work. The honorary secretary protests, explaining the hall hosts a display of women's work only, but the visitor insists the humorously misrepresented exhibit is appropriate.
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