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Newspaper
Goulburn Evening Penny Post
Location
Goulburn, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Jun 05, 1939
Page
2
An informal wedding rite described with scattered details from New York and Berg ham area. The couple plans a nontraditional ceremony with family and friends in a farm setting, featuring music and local customs amid tentative dates and arrangements.
A garbled OCR excerpt mentions Mr J M Tholy and forestry officials noting a mine destruction by fire in January. It references foresters and a protestant store, with transfers and suspicions of oppressive conditions and investigations into related actions.
The Empire Theatre program is hailed as the season’s finest entertainment, a crowd pleaser from start to end. The film The Citadel receives high praise for its direction by King Vidor and the performances of Robert Dense and Rosalind Faussell, with strong support from Ralph Therdaean and others. The bill also features two aerial sequences, novelty readings, and a final Our Gang comedy, promising a memorable live cinema experience for local audiences.
The Post states its columns invite opinions from readers and do not claim authorial stance for correspondents. It clarifies that individual columnists express personal views and are not official positions of the newspaper.
A letter from a Liedertafel member urges clear reform to restore Goulburn’s choral standard. He criticizes past conductors, urges representative committees, and argues for skilled leadership in choir, orchestra, and public performances to revive support and public esteem.
In a violent episode near a Wyoming canyon, two gunmen open fire during a bank assault. Neighbors and lawmen confront the attackers as Earl Durand is fatally wounded and a tense standoff ends with a fatal shot and police involvement. Witnesses describe the chaotic scene and subsequent pursuit.
Readable fragments describe a church lesson referencing Psalm verses about the Lord’s majesty and established world. It notes a Christian Science textbook passage by Mary Baker Eddy on grasping reality through God as divine Principle, mentioning immortality and wisdom.
Dr T S Wallace returned from a world tour and urged the establishment of a University Press in Sydney with help from Orford Press. The Ex Naval Mens' Association chief criticized the Navy Board and Federal Government for allowing young men to leave service and roam the streets.
The narrative centers on Adelaide Sheridan and Sheridan's associates amid a theater crowd and a murder aftermath. Police, including Inspector Higgins and Leary, question witnesses as evidence emerges. A dead woman with light blonde hair lies in a parlor, while Sheridan and Adelaide confront the unfolding crime with suspects named.
An ad promotes Treviit's Liverettes, claiming to relieve ailments from tract discomfort to indigestion. It markets a liver pill with a special formula and lists a distributor in Goulburn, offering 22 pills for a shilling-like price, typical of period religious medicine ads.
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