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Newspaper
Manilla Express
Location
Manilla, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Dec 06, 1935
Page
3
Wool market activity remained firm with limited sales last week. Reports from London and New Zealand indicate a cautious easing trend despite strong demand for fine wools. In Sydney selling centers prices held, with some centers noting potential shifts before year end, and overall activity subdued by holidays and year-end pauses.
The piece surveys a Woman’s periodical with articles on spirit obsession, the Youn Movement in Germany, airmen’s wives, a Bachelor’s 71 reasons for marriage, and Melbourne’s young old lady. It highlights a rotogravure feature, cookery pages, knitting, sewing directions, gift patterns, and fashion advice. It also mentions a horticultural note about a flower and a decorative stone tool for snails.
A letter to the editor challenges a May 1934 Sydney Morning Herald report on sugar trade. The writer argues Australian refined sugar is far pricier than in other markets, cites prices in Australia New Zealand Britain and the Empire, and contends embargo effects and Java trade projections are misrepresented.
Teachers advised to curb slang like O K and good oh urging polite speech and gratitude. The Education Gazette notes employers value friendliness, reserve and genuine interest. Also details sugar industry profits, exports rebates, and calls for cheaper sugar to create jobs.
The piece notes the common house mosquito Culex fatigans breeds in polluted water and indoors and outlines control methods using kerosene and pyrethrum sprays plus mosquito nets. It also recounts a Western Queensland tale of wartime comradeship between Digger Arthur Ward and Sergeant-Major Donald Ross, and ends with a brief Australian wartime scene of indigenous and frontier life and a North Strathfield murder verdict.
A widow describes years of muscular rheumatism and a crippling gait. She credits Kruschen Salts with rapid improvement after starting a bottle, claiming renewed mobility and comfort.
The text describes mosquito pupae movement through surface waters and the need to drain standing water. It advises screening tanks and receptacles to prevent egg laying and using kerosene to treat surface water in pools and drains to kill larvae and pupae as they surface for air.
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