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Newspaper
Gloucester Advocate
Location
Gloucester, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Mar 17, 1936
Page
4
A serialized adventure unfolds with Jack Castlemaine shaping a sensational boys' paper. Grantley unveils plans, a printer’s estimate arrives, and new writers join the staff. A glamorous visitor, Lydia Languish, enters as the tale nears a pivotal moment and the chapter ends with intrigue.
An ad style note touts a restaurant named Garden of Roses De Luxe offering pure foods and drinks. It claims top service, luxury, and comfort with chefs in charge, enticing patrons to call for their dining experience.
Gloucester Shire Council debated road and riverbank damage on Invergordon Road and along the river. A public meeting to form a Tourist Bureau with Newcastle was approved, with inspections planned for several roads and culverts and requests for relief labor to widen and repair key sections.
Ad copy claims relief from neuritis with a “free months” treatment and a money back certificate offer. It mentions a free booklet and urges requests from Tram Street & Parish Ltd. The text is fragmented and unclear but centers on a free trial path to cure with a guaranteed refund.
The report notes stinkwort appearing along rivers up the Nowendoc and up Little Manning, with further inspection pending. An emergency relief scheme reports Copeland Road widening works near Stoney Gully finishing soon, then moving to Nowemloc Road for public benefit. Building applications from R H Keena and Smith receive standard approval under usual conditions.
Two Chicago murders shock the city in the Bloody Twentieth. Alberto Prignano, 25, Illinois state legislator and ex friend of Al Capone, was shot at his doorstep before his wife and eight year old son. A chauffeur saved the boy as three gangsters robbed him and six shots were fired into Prignano’s back. His chauffeur wounded one assailant. Police call the hold up a possible blind and attribute the crime to gang related political feuding. Days later Samuel Strauss, a 70 year old philanthropist, was beaten in his apartment, suffering a fractured skull and other injuries. Strauss named two attackers when hospitalized and they were arrested. He said they struck him with a club and stole his watch and $300. The report notes a casual ad about a practical jeweller.
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