22 Oct 1919
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Newspaper
Gloucester Advocate
Location
Gloucester, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Oct 22, 1919
Page
1
A collage of tall tales and wartime snippets traces gambling, marriage costs, a daring ride, and a curious soldier’s gratitude. Vignettes mix bravado, social antics, and a royal-tinged lesson from the trenches, ending with a brusque verse on officers and orders.
A collage of wartime notes and market reports, detailing the Menin Gate memorial proposal to honor Canadian troops, a comically failed editor joke submission, officer dialogue about shore leave, and fluctuating prices in Pastoral Finance Association’s weekly hides and cattle market coverage. The piece blends chaos of anecdotes with economic briefs and the Menin Gate tribute amid wartime memory.
A garbled historical fragment cites tardy Hougholiers in London and police reports on open doors. It mentions Nelsons Victory aged over forty, estimates 400 008 000 tons of salt in a lake, and bricklaying feats of 400 bricks per eight hours along with other scattered figures.
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