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Newspaper
The Areas Express
Location
Booyoolee, Victoria, Australia
Date
Dec 13, 1935
Page
4
A vintage advertisement touts Mirpil Skin Balm to ease housework wear on hands and soothe rough chapped or sunburned skin. It claims benefits for chilblains windburn sore feet and as a base for powder or after shaving.
A collage of humorous vignettes and witticisms reflecting social curiosities and small misadventures. Jokes touch on marriage, manners, fads, and everyday figures from family life and work. The piece weaves quick quips with cartoonish anecdotes about etiquette, morality, and human foibles.
Georgetown Memorial Hall hosted a Jubilee Fete with decorated stalls and an afternoon program by local performers from Peterborough Snowtown and Port Pirie. Prizes were awarded for aprons and flower displays, with Mrs L G Carr presiding and community groups thanked for a successful event.
The Gladstone district council met Friday with Chairman W. S. Bennett and members R. Potter M. Black A. Lee C. J. Lines M. H. Page and clerk C. Budge present. Notices discussed include highway planning, weed control, and waterworks fi nancing. motions approved cover subdivision, Institute agreement, and restoration work on Clover Hill road with rainage inspected by MP J. A. Lyons and Public Works Commissioner Hudd.
Local notes record a social afternoon tea event with multiple attendees including Buckenara Crawford and several Misses Nankivell Holloway and Staker. The minutes discuss road maintenance plans and a grant request from the Centenary Fund, plus payments to the acting Clerk. Road works cover Main Road, Laura Road, Fort Street, Gladstone Street, and others with gravelling and patching completed or planned.
The Jamestown Racing Club Limited schedules a Wednesday January 29 1936 summer meeting with six events wagering £100 in total. New races replace previous ones including First Second and Third Class Plate with Broadview Purse funded by James Pilkington. Officials listed and Kerin resigns as secretary, OBrien appointed, admission set at 5d men 2d6d ladies, bookmakery to operate.
A fragmented chart lists monthly rainfall totals and related figures from 1880 onward. It shows months, day counts, and numerous numeric entries across years, with sparse legible labels and recurring decimal-like values.
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