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Newspaper
Gloucester Advocate
Location
Gloucester, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Nov 27, 1934
Page
3
Two ze ks offer extensive clothing and fabric discounts including floral haircord silk crepe veles and voile. The ad lists many yardage prices and product lines such as ladies slips frocks bloomers and children's wear with varying sizes and colors, aiming to clear stock before Christmas.
On a Friday evening at Bretti Mr and Mrs T P Breese hosted a Diamond Wedding Anniversary for Mr and Mrs D Brims of Khatumbuhl Creek. About 40 relatives and friends attended a breakfast with a decorated cake, heard tributes from family and neighbors, and a later dance run by L Brims. The Brims pair, aged 86 and 8, were praised as the district’s eldest couple, and the night ended with a lively supper and dancing until 2 30 a.m.
News in brief items from distant places include a town mayor receiving an Order from the Queen for aiding air race mishaps, quirky statistics on New South Wales travelers, towers and soaps usage, and oddities such as the smallest woman proposed by overseas papers. Other sketches recount a tooth found in a child’s ear, family marriages among town clerks, an elderly veteran found dead while seeking work, and a Perth pipe smoker at ninety six commenting on weather and pigs.
A London based master forger allegedly runs a sophisticated forged cheque racket across Great Britain. Scotland Yard suspects a key figure who directs a small office operation while a network of sneak thieves and the so called smart brigade collect and remove letters. Richard Wadsworth, 46, a Cheltenham ex pupil, was jailed for a forged £60 cheque and a related £87 attempt, but prosecutors say he was only a tool for the mastermind. Police press on to identify and capture the elusive ringleader and dismantle the highly organized operation.
The article recounts a maternity home tale with social judgments on large families, details a Duke era host duty in Sydney with three breakfast rooms, follows a fashion milliner’s brisk business crash, notes mosaic tint shades in Rome, cites Chicago’s Secret Six praising a truth serum, and mentions a midnight York and Lancaster Regiment march in Portsmouth.
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