Australian Soldier's Bluff and the autograph king
Mr 8 K Williams J P ex widerman of Petersham Municipal Council is famed as the world's autograph king with over 3000 signatures. His collection includes Edward VII Queen Alexandra King George V Queen Mary and many heads of state. Williams recalls a Buckingham Palace visit where he obtained royal signatures by a bold deceit and a note to Lord Stamfordham. The tale extends to the Admiralty and other offices where signatures were often granted before stricter rules followed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
8. K. Williams
J.P
Petersham Municipal
Williams
Edward VII
Alexandra
George V
Mary
Edward VIII
Albert
Belgium
Roosevelt
Lawrence
Arabia
Helen Keller
Gandhi
Stalin
Hitler
Litvinoff
Goebbels
Kitchener
Jellicoe
Lord Fisher
Smith-Dorrien
Louis Botha
General Smuts
Ransay MacDonald
Stanley Baldwin
Buckingham Palace
Lord Stamfordham
Admiralty
Whistle and Fox Tail Tale in Scottish Sermon
A Scottish minister jokes with Sandy the precentor about psalmody and fox tail lengths cited in a Sunday sermon. The minister insists he will not shorten the fox tails even if Sandy whistles through the service.
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Sandy
Samson
Immortal Heart Beats At Rockefeller Institute
A fragment of embryonic chicken heart kept alive in a glass bulb at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research since 1912 has been nourished by a special nutrient fluid. The tissue contracts and expands and has outlived five generations of chickens, leading Dr. Carrel to call it immortal so long as pumps supply the fluid.
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Rockefeller Institute For Medical Research
Alexia Carrel
Carrel
Cricket bogey and steel shafted bats in English papers
The English press fumes over Australian selections for the eleven to meet the M C C. The idea of a steel shafted bat is ridiculed yet discussed with Bradman named as a bogey. Warnings about cricket rules are noted while bat makers doubt feasibility though Alan Fairfax hints at potential profits.
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M.C.C
Clifford Webb
Daily Herald
Australia
England
Bradman
Alan Fairfax
Joe
Man Uncovers Sixty Young Snakes After Digging Out Trio
Harold Taylor of Dorrigo hunted a large black snake near a stump in a corn paddock and unearthed three large snakes. He killed them and opened the snakes to find 60 young ones in the three families. He believes both male and female snakes swallow their young when danger threatens.
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Harold Taylor
Dorrigo
Taylor
Teaching Children Traffic Rules in Miama Initiative
Authorities in Miama 17.8. Act push traffic education for youths and pedestrians. Children drive miniature cars under city officers supervision while others direct traffic. Rockefeller and son contribute three million dollars to cancer research.
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Miama
Rockfeller
Acting Premier Bruxner's Career and Controversial Cattle Tale
The piece recalls a Northern show where a judge was absent and a district breeder, aiming to inject Tracery blood, judged cattle with two others. It then covers the new Acting Premier of New South Wales, M. F. Bruxner, his birth, schooling, WWI service, honors, and political rise. Also noted is a curious case of an armband found on a bream and forwarded to the Sydney Museum.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pitt, Son and Badgery Ltd
P. S
Station Service Department
Sydney Royal
Ean
Tika
W. Hillier
Frank Scott
Prince Street
Grafton
Scott
Sydey Museum
New South Wales
M. F. Brexner
Stevens
Sandilands
Tabulam
Clarence River
Legislative Assembly
Armidale School
Sydney University
Tenterfield
Albury
King
Prince of Wales
Bruxner
Light Hore
Gallipoli
Broxner
Australia
Epen
Kle
Country Party
Bavin-Buttenshaw
Sotel
Andecame
Institute For Transport
N.S.W
Caird
Kiama
Red Cross
Far West Children’s Organisation
The
Adult Deaf and Dumb Society
Crawford's Seventh Davis Cup Tour
The article notes jack Crawford at 27 entering his seventh Davis Cup tour and compares his age to predecessors like Tilden. It recalls Australia’s Davis Cup tours since 1920, counting eleven visits to America or Europe and marking this as the twelfth. It mentions a future Bardsley-Gregory testimonial in October.
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Jack Crawford
Tilden
Australia
Auckland
America
Europe
T.S.A
World motor goods spend and a murder confession
An American statistician estimates global motor spending in 1985 at about £1,110,000,000, based on U.S. car and parts costs. The piece notes 37 million vehicles in use worldwide and remarks that U.S. figures imply broad spending abroad. The article ends with the confession of Hickey in the Henwood murder case.
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Viking
U.S.A
Also Mentioned on This Page
Bank of
Bank of New South Wales
New Zealand
Travel Service
Commonwealth Savings Bank
Commonwealth Savings Bank of Astratia
Commonwealth
Organi
Labhe
Dia
Kruschen
Pate
Stoddart & Hayward, Ltd
Sandy Was
Ademant
Crawford
Bardsley —Regory
Schute
Bridge Street
Sydney
Hickey
Mr. Henwood
Tillock & Co. Ltd
Kent
Liverpool Streets
Thn Country Producers Selling Co., Ltd
Bridge St
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!