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Newspaper
Horsham Times
Location
Horsham, Victoria, Australia
Date
Mar 17, 1933
Page
10
A fragmented piece describes a slot machine adapting to convey apologies as a meeting logic fails. It presents an imagined device that writes messages during a delay and displays them in a board for a waiting friend. The text mixes dialogue with muddled social quirks and speculative gadgetry.
A page item mixes a testimonial for Warner's Safe Cure claiming health benefits and a feature on a historic gorilla scream translated by explorer Martin Johnson. The ad extols cure bottles while the article recounts Johnson's Africa filming hardships, wildlife encounters, and notes on fox fur farming in Britain.
Government campaign launches broad appeal to farmers in Victoria to employ single men through the Farm Labourery Scheme offering 10 shillings weekly per worker plus board and lodging. Officials urge fencing drainage clearing weed control and other improvements while boosting employment and state economy. Applications routed via district secretaries and the State Employment Council in Melbourne.
A fragmented local page text mixes social chatter and odd scenes. Vignettes include Mrs Bunyard, lodgers, a shop with a cash register, a doctor guiding pigs to fattening, a country football match and a heckler shouting Spot punches. The piece sketches community life with names and places implied.
The Victorian Dried Fruits Board announces an official voting list of growers for dried prunes peaches apricots nectarines and pears. Growers asked to supply production details. those not receiving the form should contact the Board at once. Enrollment hinges on prompt information submission. By order of the Board secretary A Baker 423 Calling St Melbourne VIC.
The text describes heating soil to speed plant growth, causing earlier maturity. Growers push produce to early markets to fetch higher prices, framing it as nature’s method.
The Empire Day Movement will dispatch Anglian Commander A H Creal to 42 Victorian centres in the coming weeks to convene meetings of citizens. The initiative aims to highlight Empire Day during the Centenary Year with events, heated venues, and market demonstrations while supporting hospitals and children’s charities. Further details from the hon secretary at Room J Town Hall Melbourne.
Chairman JM Balfour urges prune peach and apricot growers to read an advertisement in Clitus regarding a list of growers. A form has been mailed to all, with copies available at the Board at 624 Collins Street Melbourne. Delays in response risk exclusion from future packing and sale, as registered packing sheds compliance is required.
A detailed critique of betting systems and racecourse operations in Australia. Includes historical methods, foundations, and statistical outcomes from over a thousand races. Edited by Haymond Sparen with Gouge Lo Mayman, presenting law interpretations and practical insights for gamblers and readers.
A humorous slice shows Jones mocking Smith’s cockerels at feeding time. A fresh member, an “efficiency expert,” is teased by Akhurst and Crombie for his forelock and sunken eyes, while a lawyer’s case about whisky theft rolls into his office.
The essay discusses the impossibility of cold light with current electric sources, noting fireflies and glow-worms radiate visible light with heat. It explains 99 percent of energy from light is heat or infrared, calls for a method to separate light from heat, and imagines a future tenfold more powerful light requiring one tenth the energy.
A brief scene unfolds as Jone enters a restaurant and encounters his old friend Meow emerging. They exchange greetings, with Meow boasting of steady work and a busy schedule, hinting at daily routines and meals, amid a lively, bustling street setting. A Dublin grocer seeks an efficient errand boy, prompting a terse exchange about alertness and quick notice.
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