Obituary Snippet Echoes Comic Era Wit
A fragmentary notice evokes a quip about aging and vitality, referencing playful bravado and distant racing fame. Names and exact details are unclear, but the tone nods to classic comic period rhetoric.
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Newspaper
Horsham Times
Location
Horsham, Victoria, Australia
Date
Jun 20, 1941
Page
8
A fragmentary notice evokes a quip about aging and vitality, referencing playful bravado and distant racing fame. Names and exact details are unclear, but the tone nods to classic comic period rhetoric.
A conference in Sydney led by Mrs 7. A. w'Revkrtt president of Anat rALION Aradation for Pretotool Child Development called for national standards in preschool training. The group urged housing authorities to fund community centres with baby health, kindergarten, nursery, and parent facilities, aiming to aid war-affected families and rehabilitate Hunt dweller households. The event settled on establishing federated training, a standard national program, and accessible centers nationwide.
Dr J Clunies Ross told New South Wales Agricultural Bureau delegates the wool industry faces a postwar surplus and rising substitutes. He urged cost cuts and innovation, with irrigation pastures and new wool uses to counter cheaper substitutes and maintain demand in Britain and the USA.
A London mother recalls a past tragedy in which her son suffered a fatal shrapnel wound a week earlier. She insists that a parent’s duty is to comfort, support, and guide a child toward good, even as grief haunts every memory of what might have been.
A report from New South Wales describes farmer Arthur Wooden facing financial strain from skeleton weed and market downturn. After expanding his block and shifting to sheep, he resumed wheat and oats, then received a Wheat Industry Stabilisation Board notice declaring his property ineligible for registration and thus restricting wheat sowing for sale.
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