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Newspaper
Guyra Argus
Location
Guyra, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Sep 12, 1940
Page
3
A local advertisement touts new curtain fabrics for dining, lounge, bedroom, and verandah with a promise of ready made up curtains to fit windows. The copy promotes a wide range of patterns and a small nominal fee for tailoring based on customer chosen material. It also mentions blinds and one example device available to clients.
List of names and units appears as enlistment records from Alf district and surrounding towns. Entries include soldiers such as Dr Stewart, Mullion, Wilton, Reeves, Coleman, and others. notes indicate ranks, units, and affiliations among once-serving military personnel.
Royal Australian Air Force entries include pilots and units such as Wahu FP Gallagher ML Darrin Co Merlin Jip Haswell AS Th WSL D Whom Hh Htlaw Es Ths Ey Willams noting assignments and status across stations ON and related postings.
A garbled OCR passage describes a social scene with lines about love and disappointment. It mentions a hospital, a parishioner, and references to relationships and timing. The readable text is fragmentary with unclear speakers and dates.
The fragment describes uncertain August rainfall estimates with references to multiple locations and figures such as Mudgee, Bathurst, and Wollongong. It lists various stations and measurements, including rainfall amounts and related dates, but the OCR data is garbled, yielding inconsistent placement of numbers and place names. The text resembles a meteorological compilation with scattered station readings and year markers.
Fragmented account recalls nurses escaping wartime France during evacuation. They faced bombardment, port delays, hospital stops, and perilous sea voyages aboard ships and destroyers. The journey covered miles to a new harbor, amid wrecked ships and air strikes, ending with arrival in England and a tense migrant passage.
An unusual sea tale follows a phage worker during a late evening near the shore. A dramatic rescue and chase unfolds as a mysterious creature turns the tide. A fisherman named Manuel battles the waves and grapples with danger to recover the gleaming gems from the surf.
Fragmentary copy shows election by post rules and a market of odd incidents, including a butcher confrontation, police scenes, a clergyman, hotel chatter, a water sprinkler aiding a fire, whisky and holy water mix ups, and a wartime reminiscence voiced by a magistrate as multiple vignettes unfold across a busy page.
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