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Newspaper
Gloucester Advocate
Location
Gloucester, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Sep 13, 1935
Page
4
A literary note lists titles such as The Man Who Changed His Wife Dawn of Desire and Full Passionate Mood and related writings attributed to a noted author of erotic fiction signaling literary trends of their era.
Joan Berney travels from France toward England on a boat, haunted by her father Dennis Berney's theft scandal. Mercedes Grainger from Mexico befriends the Westalls on the voyage, while Joan discovers her father is accused of crime, prompting her painful reckoning as tension builds between pursuit of family ties and criminal deceit.
On a moving passenger train a theft escalates into a brutal assault as a man kills a woman guarding a bag of loot and escapes with his mob while the frightened survivor and a second passenger wrestle for help. The scene shifts to a dim dawn as Mercedes sleeps and the trail of danger lingers.
In a tense moment on the carriage a distraught woman sobs over a dead body. She begs to be someone else and to vanish from her life, imagining taking the place of another to escape judgment. The scene hints at despair, memory, and a wish to reverse fate as the narrative continues.
On Tarana road near Oberon a bolting horse dragged a girl clinging to it by a stirrup. Norman David in a lorry overtook the horse and steered it toward a fence. He freed the girl who suffered only shock and minor injuries to an ankle.
In Kempsey a large meeting of electors and primary producers opposed government plans to strip the Newcastle Abattoir Board of trading powers. The gathering urged MPs to defend pig producers by opposing any such action. A Guernsey cow from Wollongbar’s stud produced 53 tons of milk and butter fat in a year, a record for Australia, with Parson's Ret Rose 20th born in 1920 and achieving notable yields in her early years.
More than one billion Jubilee postage stamps were sold by the British Post in a short period. The note mentions a sudden shift in fashion and its reportedly nervous impact. Britain’s workforce has grown by about 750,000 since twelve years ago. Also noted is the celebration of the first full length colour film in New York’s largest cinema studio.
A historical note touts a cost-saving cough remedy recipe claiming eight bottles from one. By adding a two-shilling bottle of concentrated Henzo to sweetened water, the mixture supposedly equals about a pound’s worth of remedies for coughs, colds, croup, bronchitis, whooping cough, and influenza, claimed as delightful for all ages.
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