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Newspaper
Gloucester Advocate
Location
Gloucester, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Sep 17, 1929
Page
4
Pruning guidance for lemon trees during planting and transplanting. Reserve strong upright shoots, shape an open center, and trim long slender leaders to promote a balanced framework. Shorten growth to improve vitality, spacing, and fruit quality, with emphasis on lower interior fruit bearing zones.
Salvation Army supply department provided 8000 uniforms for women and 8000 for men last year along with 14 000 bonnets and hats. The figures reflect the department's scale in outfitting its members and activities.
M Thurlow LL Leather Goods offers on premises riding saddle specialist service with neat prompt repairs. Address listed as Church Street in Gloucester.
A gardening guide extols Heuchera or Coral Bells for borders rockeries and vases noting its compact foliage tall wiry blooms and long lasting display. It highlights Lathyrus Pubescens blue climbers and suggests soil moisture feeding while praising the lavender scented Thalictrum Dipterocarpum known as Lavender Shower and advising simple naming for plant merchants.
Aage, Prince of Denmark and cousin to King George, serves as captain in the Foreign Legion drafted to South Morocco after an Arab ambush killed many comrades in the Atlas. He renounced Danish succession, married Italian countess in 1914, later faced financial reverses, and now serves amid pride and danger.
In Verdun on June 24 a marble plaque honors the last carrier pigeon No. 787-15 from Fort Vaux. It carried Major Ray rels warning on June 4 1916 during a gas and smoke attack and requested relief. The bird received the Legion of Honour and Croix de Guerre and lived as a pensioner until its death four years ago.
The note praises Lavender Shower as a hardy perennial that multiplies like other perennials. It suggests sowing seeds in fine soil, in warm boxes with glass to aid germination, and warns that germination can be slow but eventual growth pays off. If patient, sow. if impatient, buy inexpensive plants.
Shepherds promote pride in the garden with three special seed kinds sold in 1/- packets separately, or 2/6 the lot post free if all three are taken. Asters feature choicest mixed Cregos with large double blooms in varied shades. Zinnias present the very latent Dahlia Flowered variety with about 13 colors in the 1/- mixture.
British women’s organizations plan to press the Registrar General to abolish the term illegitimate in official returns. They propose reclassifying births as matrimonial or non matrimonial to reflect family status without stigma. The move signals a push for reform in gender and family records.
In Sydney, Mr. E. Andrews of the Institute of Mining and Metallurgy tells members that mining and its dependents have reshaped rural New South Wales. He notes the surge of treasure seekers in Parkes and Forbes and argues agriculture now dominates where mining once reigned.
Lingfield Surrey Parish Council faced anger over a Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings inquiry about selling the village cage prison. A United States Shipping Board request to ship it to America sparked threats, while Mr. Wheeler called the tale cock and bull and insisted the cage is held in trust and not for sale.
Fragmented lines describe a struggle between humans and nature. The speaker blends mythic imagery of trees, winds, and the sky with a meditation on strength, fate, and growth amid hardship. The text suggests a common law of life through endurance and interaction with the forest and stars.
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