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Newspaper
Horsham Times
Location
Horsham, Victoria, Australia
Date
May 20, 1938
Page
3
In a dramatic confession a troubled narrator recalls debt, blackmail, and an elaborate ruse involving Marchetti and Trevor. The plan aimed to fake a murder and steal a discovery while the narrator pleads mercy for Nan and contends with guilt, fear, and a looming police inquiry. Trevor consoles Nance as tension over shared guilt and escape intensifies.
A survey highlights unusual occupations such as pocket searchers who raid miners for contraband matches, scent testers who verify perfumes with keen noses earning up to £1000 yearly, leech collectors in European swamps, and celebrity shopping assistants hired to do others’ buying at high fees.
Advice for housewives on cleaning sharpening and preserving cutlery. guidance covers sharpening methods for knives carving tools and saw blades plus handling tips for wooden ivory bone and composition handles and storage advice including using vaseline wrapping and selecting one piece knives over two piece varieties. A brief note on a man and a police obstacle ends the fragment.
Mothers worry their babies will be highly strung and anxious. The piece urges calm parental self control and a peaceful home to prevent nerves in childhood, noting that constant don’ts and adult arguments harm a child’s sense of safety and self preservation.
Health guidance describes catarrh treatment emphasizing bodily resistance, good nutrition, and cod liver oil. Readers are advised to use nasal blowing with a handkerchief, breathing exercises, and limited saline potash mixtures to relieve symptoms, with patience for weeks.
Mrs Barbara Ayrton Gould, vice chairman at London County Council Hospital Brentwood Basex, claims two 14 year old boys recovered from galloping consumption after a new treatment using gold art therapy. X ray photos showed hopeless cases on admission, but one boy has been discharged and returns to normal school sports. The other shows strong progress toward recovery.
Stoker J Chilcott of the Royal Naval Barracks at Devonport announces he is the world's champion knitter and challenges all comers to prove otherwise. He says knitting has been his hobby since joining the service and can knit from baby clothes to bed socks. He is a confirmed bachelor and joins the Plymouth Bachelors' Club which backs a charity knitting challenge for the poor.
An American scientist estimates that a single breath contains about 40 000 trillion molecules of air moving at roughly 1200 miles an hour. Dr Charien Hire of Kentucky used motion picture photographs to measure Brownian motion as evidence of molecule bombardment on surrounding particles.
An account recounts the Great Wall of China begun in 220 B C and stretching over vast terrain with elevations up to four thousand feet. It notes one million workers over a century who perished during construction and references wartime bombardment by Japan amid a traveling scene at a station where a boy asks for a shilling and a sandwich.
A light profile of New Yorker Omero Catan famed for aiming to be first in any new event or opening. He prides himself on being the initial motorist to enter new tunnels and the earliest buyer to sample new offerings while his notoriety grows through playful anecdotes and public appearances.
The 1937 patent list includes a naval powder puff driven by a tiny electric motor, a door-automatic nesting bore, a fully automatic door that opens when a man enters and closes behind him, a privacy oriented bee keeper, an adjustable finger ring, and a toothbrush with a hollow powder holder.
A florid description of Queensland's North Coast from Caloundra to Noosa Heads portrays beaches, palms, and mountain ranges. It extols resorts at Maroochydore, Alexandra Heads, Mooloolaba, and Noosa, notes aboriginal lore, and recalls Captain Cook passing Moreton Bay as the region lures visitors with fishing, boating, and panoramic scenery.
The piece laments a decline from primitive foods used by Aboriginal peoples to modern bread that harms teeth and digestion. It argues Australians eat many varieties but should expand and improve cooking to avoid indigestion and irritability, noting at least one more distinct food is needed.
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