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Newspaper
Horsham Times
Location
Horsham, Victoria, Australia
Date
Jun 30, 1933
Page
2
Fragmentary prose questions a woman’s view on work in wartime society. A neighbor’s complaints and personal reflections mix with mentions of calls for duty, fear, and social caste, ending with a hopeful, albeit unclear, nod to spiritual comfort.
An fragmented old column cites Saw-bones or Sawboner lore at sea and ashore, praising bone saws and cures for rheumatic pains. It touts kidneys and liver cleansers as a universal remedy and includes a curious anecdote about a golfer actor exchange, reflecting era medical patter and rural commerce.
Rev W Thomson organizes the Roy Farm Trainee Scheme in Collins Street inviting farmers to apply for boys aged 15 to 18 to work on farms. About sixty boys have been placed in Victoria and Riverina with others awaiting assignment, detailing expected farm type, living arrangements, and wages.
An anecdote recounts Sir Hall Caine visiting his club and a punny bet about his name. Members race to craft puns while time runs out. Interspersed are snippets of a sailor’s tale, courtroom quips, and family dialogue highlighting witty exchanges and brief sketches.
A survey of famous writers whose works remained incomplete after their deaths. It notes Edgar Wallace Conrad Hawthorne Stevenson Thackeray Dickinson and others, with works such as Suspense Weir of Hermiston St Ives Denis Dural The Mystery of Edwin Drood and more left unfinished or fragmentary.
A stream of clipped comic anecdotes recalls a retiree denied a pension, a sixpence gift turned into a gramophone, and lighthearted exchanges about languages. The snippets range from old jokes about flowers and stamps to quirky bank chatter, family quips, and a doctor’s humorous bedside guidance.
For twenty years Australians have saved by making a home cough and influenza remedy with HEENZO. It is simple to mix a two-shilling bottle of concentrated HEENZO with water to create a large supply equal to or better than £1 worth of commercial remedies. MIKENZO purity ensures suitability for babies and adults alike.
Colonial Mutual Life Assurance Society Limited held its annual meeting at the society office. The chairman outlined and adopted the directors and actuary reports, discussed premium income and new policies, and noted large premium totals and investment income. The board emphasized conservative investing, reserve growth, and distributing surplus to policy holders while addressing national financial challenges and changes in government.
Leaders of the Colonial Mutual Life Insurance Society debate ongoing pressures from heavy taxation and wartime financial shifts. They defend adherence to strategic plans, note government stock holdings, and emphasize the need for prudent credit and policy management to weather postwar challenges. The speech praises directors and officers for steering through turbulent times and calls for continued resolve.
A garbled OCR readout presents disjointed scenes including a man learning departmental life, a parade, and a rifle outing. The text weaves through stray names, fragmented dialogue, and abrupt shifts, lacking coherent narrative or clear outcomes. The chaotic stitching hints at a wartime or institutional setting but offers no decisive events.
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