Faces and Boomers and Witty One-liners
A mixed compilation of quips, puns, and humorous vignettes. Jokes about cooks, pawnbrokers, tailors, lawyers, gardeners, and motorists populate a rapid-fire parade of social observations and wordplay.
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Newspaper
The Areas Express
Location
Booyoolee, Victoria, Australia
Date
Jan 12, 1934
Page
4
A mixed compilation of quips, puns, and humorous vignettes. Jokes about cooks, pawnbrokers, tailors, lawyers, gardeners, and motorists populate a rapid-fire parade of social observations and wordplay.
Public Reading Room and Library announces monthly committee meetings the first Monday from April to September at 7 30 p m and October to March at 8 p m All persons urged to subscribe to support the public good The hall and supper room available for engagements with charges and terms from the secretary John Souter President and electric light grand piano stage and scenery listed
The piece contrasts health and illness and links digestive irregularities to poor well being. It promotes Dr Marse's Indian Root Pills as a remedy that stirs the liver cleanses the stomach and stimulates the bowels to restore proper function and combat life’s daily ills.
Printed and published by L M W Judell the Pro- Drietor every Friday morning at the Review of Goce in Jamestown.
The death of Mrs Caroline Gordon occurred suddenly at her daughter’s Jamestown residence on January 3. She was 71, born near Willina Station Port Augusta, daughter of William and Mary Brewster. She married Samuel Gordon in Bruce, farmed at Caltowie, moved to Jamestown in 1929, helped others in the North, and is survived by two sons George and Samuel and four daughters Mrs A E Cadd, Martin, P McCallum, and a daughter at Caltowie. Interment followed at Quorn beside her husband.
A ratepayers meeting in Gladstone appointed a fire fighting committee and controllers led by Mr. W S Bennett. Members include W M Neate F G Moore W S Bennett G Thomson F Page J R Potter R E Lines G M Black A C Masters S Heaslip M Virgo M C Hudson A Leo G Kearney H M Pascoe with H M Hewett as secretary. The group aims to place tank and hose at the police station and three fire heater stations, with district council funding and depots planned.
Jamestown Sub Branch of N A P B A announces an official egg laying test to start in April. Twenty five pens were funded plus a donation of ten more by Mr Stan Faskard, totaling 30 pens. Wyn Hockey named manager and official scorer for the first year, with strict rules and exclusive entrant rights for Sub Branch members.
A Gladstone district council meeting on January 5 1934 received reports from the Overseer Finance inspector and Mr Lines on a deputation from the Fire Fighting Committee. Decisions covered fire beaters depots water drums grants to repairs and a request to reduce Jamestown Hospital rates.
Fragmented OCR shows a dense sequence of years, decimals, and codes from 1880 to 1995 with scattered punctuation and abbreviations. No coherent event or narrative is recoverable beyond a long ledger-like grid of dates and numeric values.
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