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Newspaper
Sunshine Advocate
Location
Sunshine, Victoria, Australia
Date
Dec 20, 1934
Page
2
A reflective column by Grage L. Rodda contemplates the passing year with poems and quotes from Tennyson Longfellow and an English writer. It muses on memory, joy and sorrow, the enduring power of art, and ends with a humorous note on Christmas gifts from spouses.
A reader describes simple party magic involving coins, water, and glass. A bowl holds water with two coins. a paper is ignited and inverted glass causes water to rise, letting coins be removed without wet fingers. A second trick explains blowing on a bottle to extinguish a candle via air currents.
A prose summary outlines a magic bit where a participant’s age birth year hobby and a card sequence are recorded on paper. The performer doubles a critical number to yield 1984 and splits the result into two parts that each sum to 1934, then uses a hidden cue with a flower pot to reveal a card outcome. The piece concludes with a showy blindfolded trick using a deck and kerchief to let a volunteer call out court cards while a conspirator nudges the performer.
A ghostly fragment urges offering a cigarette and lighting it with a match held toward the narrator. The text hints at secrecy and self harm, then pivots to urging restraint and warning Angers in a puzzling, unclear sequence.
A fragmentary dialogue depicts Dusty Rhoda and others in a crude exchange about a tramping incident and a suggested item for sale at a low price. The clipped text hints at a misheard call and a shopkeeper remark, with little clear context or characters.
A collection of light holiday sketches and vignettes. A mother plans a surprise Christmas party for her children while a father, bent by poverty, tries to shuffle money for the dinner. A rich young author faces a refusal to marry amid jokes about generosity and extravagance. The set includes group toasts, a bachelor’s dinner grudge, a haunted tale, and a shop window Christmas shopping scene.
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