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Newspaper
The Areas Express
Location
Booyoolee, Victoria, Australia
Date
Sep 25, 1936
Page
4
A compilation of light jokes and one liners spanning marriage, money, work, travel, and relationships. The quips feature quirky exchanges between husbands and wives, clerks and patrons, drivers and pedestrians, and amused onlookers.
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An advertisement urges sensible people to monitor health signs and use Dr Morse's Indian Root Pills to aid digestion and overcome minor overindulgence. It claims the pills are the best medicine for such purposes and notes widespread use as testimony to their efficacy. Always keep a bottle and take a dose at first trouble for satisfactory results.
The Gladstone district council met with chairman Mr. W. Bennett presiding. They approved a general rate of fourteen pence in the pound and fifteen pence for Gladstone North East and Westwards, plus a health rate six pence, lighting two pence, and hospital two pence. They also appointed F Hogan as caretaker of Dayman's Cottage without salary and approved various works including road reconditioning and footpath/culvert plans. The council thanked the chairman for his election as president of the Northern District Councils and Corporations Association.
From Out the Past reports the Gladstone rifle competition on Saturday was won by G Coe and the final golf championship went to L Carthwe. It recalls 1916 rifle match Gladstone beat Georgetown 602 to 563 with teams led by Fisher, Thomson and Flavel. Other items include a 1906 Laura vs Gladstone rifle result 566 to 554 and a rainbow fair raising over £70 for St Alberns Church.
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