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Newspaper
Longreach Leader
Location
Longreach, Queensland, Australia
Date
Jun 29, 1923
Page
10
Australia imports over £8600000 worth of tea annually. Mr H Armstrong and Mr Craw strong discussed the crop's potential with Premier Theodore who praised its produktiveness. Mr Witherington may visit Australia to assess the scene and will be invited to Brisbane to meet the Premier.
In Mire Divorce Court Chief Justice Sir William Irvine heard Lucy Lawson petition for dissolution of marriage to James of Prahran. Lucy and sister Lacy Lawson testified about a 30 year deserted husband who reappeared in Sydney with the sister, leading to an eventual decree nisi.
A secret society named Zealots of Jesus forms in Athens to protest sleeveless dresses. Members gather in the city at a mountain rendezvous, tar women with bare arms, triggering panic and a clash in a restaurant as cavalrymen intervene. Police threaten action.
Reported from Vienna on June 22 concerns two Bosnian peasant brothers who dug up their father’s recently buried body with neighbors, burned it, and replaced ashes. They blamed their mother claiming the ghost of the father haunted her, prompting a second night of sleepless fear before the act.
Fragmentary notice describes a notable aeronaut Major B. L. Foot buried at Chertsey after a plane accident. The text mentions wedding day and severing ties, with a curious reference to happiness for two and kindred souls abiding.
Miscellany of observations including notes on cattle breeding in Abyssinia, coffee consumption, palm leaves, and the world’s tallest monument. Also contains kitchen recipes for dough, fish rissoles, glassware cleaning, sewing guidance, tea leaves infusion, and a cleaning liquor for varnished wood and windows.
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