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Newspaper
Tambellup Times
Location
Tambellup, Western Australia, Australia
Date
Jun 10, 1914
Page
4
A narrator muses on the old almanac with its dry election data and jokes, preferring humorous panels over figures. He recalls reading the jokes that sparked easy laughter, contrasting them with modern schedules and grim statistics, longing for the lighter humor of past almanacs.
In early dawn, Mary Norcross watches Tom ride off with fox hunters while worrying about their crumbling farm. The scene highlights Mary’s frustration with Tom’s fox hunting and neglect of chores, set against autumn fields and a frost-kissed landscape. The old woman by the fire notes the contrast between land’s value and household strain.
A poor widow named Mary toasts a new life after telling her mother she will quit Tom Norcross. She describes a shabby home, a broken fence, and a pig-infested yard, vowing to raise their son Ned herself with her machine and work. Tom, shocked, realizes her departure may be permanent as he confronts the change in their marriage.
In Georgia, Mary endures hardship to keep her son Ned, clinging to a dream of a modest home with geraniums, a vine door, and moss rose china, while Tom writes plans for a future life they may never share. The community notes her quiet struggle, her fading health, and her stubborn hope as she works at a sewing machine, protecting Ned from a difficult father.
The founder of Woolwich Arsenal, Andrew Schalch, warned of danger during cannon casting at Moorhelds in 1716 when damp moulds caused an explosion. He saved spectators, later guided the government's plan for a new foundry and chose a site at Woolwich for the Royal Foundry, serving as master founder until his death in 1776.
The article speculates that universal peace may come through science and a future unmanned war fleet. It describes a tidal wave weapon fed by wireless control from shore, capable of destroying ships and shaping global politics. It then pivots to a philosophical meditation on immortality, souls, and the evolution of consciousness across worlds.
The piece recounts the perilous parrot hunting trade along the La Cruz River in Mexico with peons climbing amid army ants while parrots hatch in May and June under harsh guards, then shifts to Mr. Burke's Cavendish Lab radium experiments yielding primitive life forms called radmwb es that grow and divide in culture media, sparking debate on origins of life and radioactivity.
A garbled fragment discusses a belief that the soul or spirit relates to the central atom and questions the price or value of organization. The text is unclear but suggests doubt about a scientific or philosophical connection.
Reported near completion of interviews with Professor Littlefield and others, scientists announce a breakthrough. English chemist John Butler Burke is credited with a claim that life originated by a mechanism suggested in the current study.
An elderly patient, unsettled by coffinlike bones she saw in a gas fire socket, recalls the old days of naval asbestos and new room fittings. A doctor, surprised by the reaction, contemplates the creepiness and the need for burial. Her daughter tries to defuse laughter at the scene.
In a humorous exchange Mr Nearde laments lack of food while Mrs Newedd admits spending money on a fashionable dinner gong she could not resist. They wonder aloud about what to eat tonight and agree to listen to the gong instead.
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