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Newspaper
Manilla Express
Location
Manilla, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Oct 06, 1925
Page
4
Sydney surplus traders announce a monster spring sale opening Wednesday September 30 with specials on cotton reels powder tins tins tapes ladies undergarments slips silks shirts socks boots undershirts sand shoes and wool flannels listed with prices in old currency.
An old advertisement urges shoppers to visit All’s Shop in Manila for a limited range of powders perfumes soaps and tooth items before stocks run out. The notice emphasizes early purchase to avoid missing lines and notes sales end by Saturday.
A tutor leads a classroom session tracing the rise and fall of Babylonian and Assyrian realms on the Fertile Crescent. The lesson covers Sumerian irrigation, cuneiform tablets, and weights, later Kassite and Aramean events, then the Assyrian empire from 750 BC to 606 BC, highlighting iron warfare, kings like Sargon and Sennacherib, a postal system, and the Chaldean succession.
A compact tale recounts Charles Stuart’s 1745 rising from Glenaladale and Moidart to Edinburgh and Derby, the Highland clans’ brave charges at Prestonpans and Falkirk, the retreat toward London, and the eventual Culloden defeat, aided by Lady Flora MacDonald and Highland allies.
Fragmentary lines claim Aeayrians were backward and lost creative power. Text mentions a conquest by Indo European races and a Persian empire, but details and context are unclear.
The text discusses rising prisoner counts across federal, state, and local institutions from 1917 to 1920, noting limited conclusive data and linking drunkenness to increased arrests and disorder. It cites New York City quotas and shifts in intoxication enforcement during prohibition, highlighting growing social concerns.
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