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Newspaper
Numurkah Leader
Location
Numurkah, Victoria, Australia
Date
Oct 23, 1929
Page
8
Advance Australia News notes higher membership for a weekly letter and observes unemployment falls tied to productive living. It critiques littering and street cleanliness in Sydney and surrounds, arguing prosperity exists but wasteful dumping persists. The piece ends with the motto A Clean Australia from the Australian Anti-Litter Leagues.
Sir Alfred Hopkinson argues that while capitalists and millionaires will exist, the nation must purify the system by example and gradual reform. He urges individuals to live rightly, cut indulgences like alcohol, and allow altruism to justify individuality, citing Britain’s drink costs and social ills as reasons for change.
A parliamentary conservative urges focus on real education value over spending, praising the Boy Scout movement as best training free to the state. He criticizes age caps, regulation, and compulsory schooling, arguing education must rest on religion and independence of universities, with bold views from a House of Commons member.
A British surgeon demonstration using talkies before the Royal Society of Medicine highlights cinema as an educational tool. Enhanced by slow motion and magnification, operations can be re created for teaching. The piece argues for balancing war readiness with peace efforts and suggests film aided methods in schools.
The piece traces gargoyles from medieval legends through Notre Dame to modern architecture. It notes a common myth about a Norman monster La Gargouille, the monk St Romanus, and explains gargoyles as rain spouts. It adds Gargoyle as a Vacuum Oil trademark adopted in 1906 for Lubricants.
The Bremen and Mauretania are cited as the world's speed record holders among ocean liners. The passage notes that Vacuum Oil Company is remembered for correct lubrication, a mark associated with these ships and their era.
Principal A C Drevermann notes a dry period causing anxiety but a late month break improved outlook. September rainfall reached 116 points to 26th, total 1166 for year, below average. Fallow works good, 50 acres cleared for oats and pasture. lucerne areas germinated. hay short. wheat seasonally declining. College stock 4665 sheep and 135 cattle with limited hand feeding. Milk yield 28 cows 66 gallons daily and 453 lb butter produced. herd test average butter fat 392 lb. Cookie Doo leads Ayrshire at 371.11 lb butter fat. remaining 10 cows under test satisfactory.
An article extols milk as a rich protein source and essential nutrient, noting its digestibility issues for some. It recommends adding gelatine to improve digestion, outlines a milk gelatine dessert recipe, and suggests pink color variations and serving ideas to tempt family appetites.
A persuasive ad claims thousands cured of indigestion with Bisurated Magnesia after meals. It promises fear of eating will vanish, pain will cease as the product enters the stomach, and urges readers to buy from a local chemist today.
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