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Newspaper

Gloucester Advocate

Location

Gloucester, New South Wales, Australia

Date

May 25, 1934

Page

4

Woman Found Sleeping in Car Boot After Citywide Wander

An 18 year old girl crawled into a car boot in Stanley Street East Sydney on Monday night and slept there until discovered Tuesday afternoon by the car owner. She had wandered from Croydon, worn thin clothing, and was taken to Sydney Hospital for treatment after suffering cramps and exposure.

George Street Sydney Brown Sydney Hospital Croydon Stanley Street Levensteath Mackfellow Sarah McPherson Granny McPherson H. W. Ramsay Daily Examiner Graf Grafton Grove Maclean Scotland Donald Cameron Australia Hunter River Alexander McPherson McPherson John Robertson Clarence Orara Hugh John Duncan McPherson First Falls Eatonsville

Carpet Grass Ravages Dairy Pasture Across Hastings Region

The text reports Panicum carpet grass as a rising pest on central coast pastures, spreading from uplands to tower flats on Macleay Hastings and Manning rivers. Paddocks once yielding six to ten acres per beast now show 75 to 90 percent infestation with poor carrying capacity.

Hastings Macleay J. M Pitt Tower Flat Manning

Keech’s early sorghum method wins third Harvest Award

Wingham farmer Mr. BL Keech advances fodder yields by sowing sorghum in spring for a first cut in September and a second growth in drills. The approach fills an underground silo in January, producing 25 to 35 tons per season and delivering a thicker, finer stand with reduced lodging. Keech has won the Wingham district fodder conservation prize for the third year running.

BL. R. Keech Wingham Keech

Clay Clinker May Solve Road Material Shortage

Queensland engineer identifies the Irvine process as a low cost route to road metal. Machines to produce the clay clinker will cost under £2000 each, main roads board chair Newell told the Shires Association Conference. Heating clay to 1800 degrees forms clinker that when cooled yields a durable surface like gravel.

Irvine Queensland Main Roads Board Newell Shires Association

Remarkable Bundarra punter nets £720 from treble bet

A Bundarra punter who backed Brixton, Bill Wedgewood, and Barminster with £1 won £720 after Brixton and Bill Wedgewood each won at generous odds. The final leg Barminster also succeeded, yielding the large payout. A single £10 stake request was refused by the bookmaker.

Bundarra Sydney Brixton Bill Wedgewood Bill Barminster Blixton Rumminster

Mystery of £6,360 Gold Heist Shocks London Bank

A consignment of 930 ounces valued at £6,360 from Bulawayo to the Standard Bank in London vanished after being loaded for the Balmoral Castle voyage. Cement and nails substituted for gold. Police in London Southampton and Bulawayo, with Union Castle Line officials, investigate possible theft during rail travel from Bulawayo to Capetown before ships and strongroom checks.

Enawayo Southern Rhodesia Standard Bank of South Africa London Capetown Balmoral Castle Southhampton Scotland Yard Southampton South Africa Bulawayo Union Castle Line Waterloo Bank O F England Standard Bank Union Johannesburg Morning Post New York

Woods claims peppermint cure defeats coughs and colds

A short note asserts Woods' Great Peppermint Cure for coughs and colds is infallible. The article also cites Britain’s gas industry with an aggregate capital of £200,000,000 indicating economic scale.

Britain Woods

Beauty Fatal to China

A Britt United Press despatch blames the loss of Mancheria on the beauty of Butterfly Wu a celebrated Chinese beauty. Patriots threaten violence over her Peiping stage appearance and military involvement as events unfold around the five north eastern provinces.

China Butterfly Wu Wey Ching Mancheria Britt United Press USA Cw Peiping

Entangled Lovers Dismiss War Warnings in Manchuria

A fragment notes lovers so absorbed in romance they ignore wartime duties in Manchuria. A bullet accompanies a note to Miss Butterfly blaming her for subjugating a nation and for her beauty, claiming these caused a lost empire.

Manchuria Miss Butterfly

Primitive Expedition and Myall Mickey in Clarence District

Records from the Clarence River Historical Society recount William Forster's cattle arrival at Georgarow on the Orara River under Michael Skeen. The account includes attacks by Aboriginal people, punitive raids, and Myall Mickey's notoriety, plus family recollections of the McPhersons and Dundee and Sherwood properties, with deaths and long colonial legacies.

Clarence River Mary McDermid Michael Skeen Glenreagh Mra. McDerniid Thomas Small Ufwarrt Dunwoo Run Sherwood Hiravastune Maloneys Fits Myall Mickey Dundee Levenstrath Georgarow Staon Shannons Pearson Hrothern Rink

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