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Newspaper
Richmond Guardian
Location
Richmond, Victoria, Australia
Date
Dec 14, 1918
Page
6
A sprawling collage of wartime anecdotes, poems, jokes, and cultural vignettes from a historic Western Mail page. It blends foreign travel impressions, theater satire, love and marriage musings,ish humor, and serialized poems with references to Chaplin, Mary Pickford, and social norms of a past era.
Barrington Miller, longtime Union Theatres chief and Australasian Filme director, reflects on the motion pictures as a growing force. He details saving Greater J. D. Williams Company from ruin, recalls early audits and writs, and argues cinema has grown beyond a child’s toy to a true artistic and cultural force.
Barrington Miller argues the motion picture will bring entertainment to the world and civilized regions long after traditional forms fade. He plans travel next, visiting New Zealand, America, England, and the Continent before returning to Australia, where he holds multiple directorships.
A stylized World War I poem recounts armored assault with tanks advancing toward Berlin. The piece references German forces, Kaiser, and Prussia, praising the tank brigade and its fleet as they press onward. It quotes an unnamed Times attribution and conveys martial pride and mythic war imagery.
A Pacific Coast newspaper conducted a live protest against retailers profiteering on staple foods by offering fixed prices over wholesale costs. After publicity, some items were marked down while others rose, prompting a free market response as farmers lowered prices to attract buyers, showing human nature’s stubborn traits despite wartime sentiment.
Wagga Express marks its diamond jubilee, tracing founding in 1858 by James Thorburn Brown. Notes the early Australian press landscape with mentions of Yass Courier, Albury Post, Bathurst Free Press, Goulburn Herald, Bega Advertiser, and Goulburn Chronicle.
A 20 month old boy, son of Afra Clarke of Granville New South Wales, drank a cup of kerosene intended for a fire. He died a few hours later despite medical aid. An inquest is scheduled for Thursday.
The piece discusses heavy silk fabrics and the wartime use of tin tetrachloride to weight silk, noting about 3000 tons of tin required in 1917. It argues true old style silks are hard to reproduce cheaply, urges conservation, and contemplates using less weighting or even omitting tin despite metal shortages.
Fragmentary OCR text discusses uncertainty and confusion in a laboratory setting. Compiles stray phrases about catching up and trust, with unclear names or events. The readable portion is too fragmentary to identify concrete persons places or organizations.
A lengthy account explores Italy s alleged use of armored underwater tank devices to penetrate harbor nets at Pola. The article describes self propelled sea tanks with elect rically controlled torpedo tubes and live cables, capable of burrowing through nets and mines to attack Austrian battleships within the Pola approach.
A medical caution against improper treatment of ingrown toenails. It warns that partial removal or cutting can worsen the condition and advises straight boots to avoid deforming the toe. The piece also mentions a rail ticket agent exchange with humor about punctuality.
Mrs Pankhurst speaks of a postwar England where women are integral in industry politics and society. She predicts machinery replacing knitting and darning, better housing health and education, and a national shift to cooperation over class divides. Her message emphasizes voting rights and women’s economic and social status.
The Board of Agriculture for Scotland proposes establishing a seed testing station near Edinburgh covering 200 to 260 acres. It will test seed varieties for cropping power, compare varieties, assess disease resistance, and certify registration based on results, aiming to protect Scotland’s seed reputation in exports.
The last annual report from the U S Bureau of Mines surveys theories on coal dust explosions. Some say dust burns as a whole while others contend gases distilled during heating trigger the blast. The bureau tested dust clouds under brief heating, both in air and in inert atmospheres, to determine if such distillation can occur.
Obscure text fragment with names and phrases. The readable bits mention Walter and Soot with unclear dialogue. No coherent event or clear entities to summarize into a full news item.
A column blends holiday fashion notes with social humor and wartime updates. It mentions festive clothing trends from white and black, gingham, and crepe fabrics, plus humorous vignettes about parties, hats, and a few Australian war stories and nurse recruitment themes. An anecdotal aside covers engagements, a war hero, and Lady Administrator duties, interlaced with fashion chatter and domestic events.
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