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Newspaper
Gloucester Advocate
Location
Gloucester, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Oct 23, 1934
Page
3
The store announces new spring fabrics including 36 inch floral voiles, pique voiles, check gingham, harmony prints, Clyde linen finish material, Stanwear wear fabrics, 28 inch cotton capes, unbleached calico, and ladies accessories such as air leather shopping bags, elastic, cotton vests, crinkle crepe nights, and mercerised hose with varied shades and prices.
The Tasmanian airliner Miss Hobart left Launceston for Melbourne at 8 a.m. on Friday with eleven aboard. A wireless later said everything was O.K. at 10 20 a.m. when eight miles from Wilsons Promontory. A search plane reported wreckage 10 miles southwest of Rodondo Island.
Pitlochry School ground hosted a farewell picnic and presentation for Mr and Mrs James Merchant and family as they relocate after twenty four years in the area. A large turnout, speeches, gifts, and school farewells followed, celebrating their role as friends neighbors and citizens. The event closed with the singing of For They Are Jolly Good Fellows and notes on a London night watchman in Fly Place.
T A Corbett of Gloucester appointed loyal agent for Os mond and Sons to distribute blackleg aggression remedies in solid and liquid forms. Including cattle and horse remedies and licks, with stocks kept.
Cattle met slow competition with further price reductions from late rates. Vealers led the best sale but were cheaper. About 2340 head offered across categories. bullocks £11 8s, cows £7 12s, vealers £8 4s. Per 100lbs Good to prime beef 23s-27s, yearlings 81s-84s. Maitland fat cattle yarding about 900 with mixed quality. Calves about 500 yarded. prime heavy calves 16s-25s, medium 10-14s, others 2s+. Pigs forward about 500 with rates near last week’s highs. Heavy pigs to 130s, bacon 60s-71s, porkers 41s-51s.
The article notes top advertising agency copy writers grow temperamental and command high incomes. It highlights Chicago's O. B. Winters and peers like Lee Maxwell Phil Lennon and Art Kudner as high earners with salaries around £20,000 to £25,000 yearly. It discusses the craft of brevity and the competitive path to elite pay.
News in brief reports daily British postage around 20 million stamps sold. Locusts caused over £6 million in damage from 1827 to 1931. Dog and cat keeping banned in Aberdes Corporation council housing. Most fatal Britain road crashes last year involved vehicles under 20 mph. Edible Chinese bird nests valued at twice weight in silver. finest at £60. Kabyle Afghan widow barred from remarrying until parental buyback is returned. In Romania, a girl’s marriageable status marked by a painted flower on the house.
Style notes mention Double Gusset and extra Good Quality Elastic at Wiarnit and Knew with 3/11 and 4/11 dates. Yul Bloom LUSTRE VFSTS operation details reference rein for under arms and register ed shilder strapping. No clear event or outcome provided.
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