30 Jun 1933
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Newspaper
Manilla Express
Location
Manilla, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Jun 30, 1933
Page
1
Partial readable note indicates a large station allocates about £1000 monthly to sustain stock or supplies. The fragment mentions spending and a kept stock, but details and entities are unclear due to corrupted OCR.
Curator of Trees submits a plan for planting eight foot apart oleanders along Strafford Street and Progress Lane, an olive hedge at the rear fence, a rose hedge near the front, and a lawned area by the verandah. Proposes two more vegar gums in triangulation for shade, five shrubs, and circular garden beds six feet wide. Also notes possible development on both sides and references a pound account and council financials through 1932.
The Bathurst burr, a widespread noxious weed, originated from an imported shipment of Shetland ponies in the 1840s. Bathurst residents John Ford and William Cummings helped introduce the seed when ponies shed burrs, which spread via grazing flocks and the 144 flood carried debris along the Macquarie River, seeding western grazing lands with a weed that troubled pastoralists nationwide.
Dr. Jean Marsoni reports the first known Ethiopian skin color change after ingesting a plant remedy in Haiti. Paris Haitian consul notes a man named Dan vhin with asthma consulted a witch doctor for fairy plant clones. The patient swallowed the entire plant, lasting five days, then awoke with bleached skin and hair and temporary blindness. Photographs reportedly show full bleaching.
Wood's Great Peppermint Cure is advertised as first aid for coughs and colds, with claims of fast relief and soothing action. The product is promoted in period-appropriate language emphasizing its peppermint-based formula and household usefulness.
The ladies of Manila are organizing a Thursday event in the Parish Hall under the Methodist church. Leading local artists perform a first class programme with competitions and a dainty afternoon tea promised.
Mrs Hrutzky, an Australian, describes life in Leningrad under the OGPU. She recalls constant surveillance, forced relocations at midnight, and families torn apart. After years abroad she plans to settle in Queensland with her husband and family.
The ninth sale of the season by The New England North and North West Producers' Company Limited known as Nenco disposed of the entire catalogue in the sale room. About 85 percent of the 23 491 bales purchased were shipped direct overseas to ports like Bremen Dunkirk Geneva Mull London Liverpool Antwerp Hamburg Bordeaux and in the United States. The remaining 15 percent remains unaccounted for and Nenco believes some were shipped after Sydney and others may have changed hands at other selling centres. The company notes no evidence supports certain adverse statements about ship routes or origins.
British excavators in Tel Duweir, South Palestine, report a barren Holy Land scarred by 586 B C destruction. They describe once-fertile valleys and terraces uprooted by Nebuchadnezzar's siege, leaving a landscape of desolation and ruined vineyards and groves near Jerusalem.
In a tale from Mark Twain’s editor days, a reader asked if a spider in the paper signaled luck. Twain reportedly replied the spider’s presence meant little, noting it looked for an ad to identify an merchant and lingered over the stove. Two men, Wallace and Rowland, have been tried for murder in Rondj, tied to John Roward’s fatal bullet wounds on May 14.
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