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Newspaper
Richmond Guardian
Location
Richmond, Victoria, Australia
Date
May 18, 1918
Page
6
A collage of wartime chatter and domestic vignettes features gossip about battles, travelers, and a curious egg shaped like a canoe. The column shifts to humor about hens and eggs, social banter, con artists, and hotel theater notes, ending with light verse from Sydney Sun.
A Mary Forrest poem printed in Bystander Sydney reflects a vaudeville night where the crowd’s roar buried the truth. The speaker, an audience figure, recalls clapping’s sting, memory, and the silent theatre beyond the curtain. The verse contrasts lively stage whimsy with unseen backstage loneliness.
A fragment from a diary style note mentions a late visitor to Jane, hinting at a secret meeting. The line preserves a tense mood and implies inquiry into a past encounter. Further context is unreadable in the surviving OCR segment.
War shortages push toothbrushes and tea hoarding into daily life as Australian women support Red Cross Day efforts with jewelry sales and charity events. Reports recount Victoria society, dances, and fashion trends from Melbourne, with Stella Power touring America and returns of khaki-flushed flirtations, plus policing of street courtesies.
Sir Edward Holden, chairman of London City and Midland Bank, reports Germany’s money stock rose to about 4.733 billion dollars by December 1917. He outlines Reichsbank changes, Darlehnskassen loans, and postwar plans to absorb war debt via a consortium of Reichsbank, joint stock banks, and Darlehnskassen to stabilize prices and credit after the war.
Louis Ab Mouy of Nimmo Street Middle Park died aged 92, a pioneering Chinatown figure in Victoria. Born in Canton, he learned timber work, arrived in 1851 to build homes in South Melbourne and Williamstown, and became a key gold field trader, miner, and entrepreneur. He opened the first rice mill in Victoria, ran a tea business, helped found the Commercial Bank of Australia, and backed mining ventures across Ballarat Elaine Mount Buffalo and more. He inspired a wave of Chinese settlers with a letter that spurred thousands to Victoria. His legacy includes timber firms, banking links, and a lasting Chinese presence in Melbourne.
A fragmentary portrait notes Herbert Spencer’s quirks as Edward Clodd recalls in Afomories. It mentions a mid conversation moment and Spencer’s restrained kindness, hinting at private offers of help amid unsaid troubles.
A historical description explains how depth bombs used against submerged submarines operate. It details explosive charge, underwater pressure triggering, effective radii, and the need for precise depth timing. It discusses detection challenges, limited surface clues, and the strategic use by destroyers in pursuit scenarios.
A fragmentary OCR item notes the manager Solas and a team feature. Limited readable text implies a sports context with possible team or event reference but details are unclear.
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