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Newspaper
Toodyay Herald
Location
Toodyay, Western Australia, Australia
Date
Aug 29, 1925
Page
3
A reader warns against animal circuses praising cruelty behind the scenes. It discusses trainer abuse, collars with sharp points, exhausted pets, frightened cats and dogs, and wild animals kept in chains. It notes training harm, travel confinement, and legal fines for mistreated dogs.
A colossal new water reservoir near London will hold 800 acres of excavated clay walls and store water to supply the city at 250 million gallons daily for weeks. Built over ten years, the project finally overcomes war and weather delays. 2000 men worked, and the vast site floods Littleton village and surrounding fields, with a 0.75 mile breakwater and Thames intake at Penton Hook Lock.
The U S population stood at 114,311,000 on January 1 according to the National Bureau of Economic Research. In 1924 immigration was 315,000 with births 2,615,000 and deaths 1,233,000, births rising while deaths fell, and gainfully occupied people making up about 88 percent of the population.
A speaker argues that not all trainers are cruel but notes cruelty at many shows. The group urges support for a law to stop animal performances and asks children in Australia who love animals to join in advocating for the measure.
Readable reminiscence detailing a rustic sheep shearing scene at Thompson's yard. Sam Spudd primes for a big wool run with 39 sheep as neighbors and kin discuss stakes, timing, and local customs. Old Bill Anderson leads with brisk speed and comic mishaps as the crew races to shed and bale wool.
A wartime training school shows women mastering wild horses without force. Their secret is calm, loving authority that calms the animals, proving fear drives aggression while confident, gentle handling yields trust. The method hinges on faith and kindness, not domination.
In Colorado Springs a bird hospital founded ten years ago by Wm. W. Arnold cared for wild birds with free service. It housed 38 patients when Arnold died. now A. P. Brigham continues the work. The Arnold Nature Club memorializes Arnold with bird and flower study and prizes.
A compact collection of kitchen instructions including spinach and poached eggs, macaroni cheese with crumb topping, tagit scones dough and baking, tomato and egg on buttered toast with bacon, raspberry pudding with whipped cream, cream puffs with a light filling, wayside biscuits with oats and cinnamon, all described in a practical domestic tone.
A playful collection notes flight by dragonflies and long pier spans in England, sea lights, ocean cargo records, zoo counts, Tristan da Cunha life, and social quirks. It sketches sun therapy, coconut meringue, nursery cakes, and cheeky maxims. It cites facts on global temperatures, currency notes, beer spending, and volcanic island changes.
The article notes Melville and Bathurst Island aborigines resemble Torres Strait and Kimberley natives in build and tattoo patterns. It details their facial hair, lip tattoos, and body decoration with ochre. Islanders live without dwellings or clothing, using heavy carved spears and small paddling implements as primary weapons.
The world’s most powerful lighthouse lit for the first time on April 19 atop Mont Afrique near Dijon. At 1947 ft above sea level it aims to illuminate the Algiers to Paris airway. In clear weather its beam reaches 300 miles and 100 to 125 miles in fog. The light emits 874,000,000 candlepower with a 5 second interval.
Divers thirty feet down in the Mediterranean off Tunis report ruins of a large ancient city. Stone buildings loom in dim shadows as fish move through crumbled doorways. Archaeologists prepare further explorations with added interest from Virgil’s waters and the mythical Lotus Eaters near Homeric lands.
The Northen Pacific yields vast Trocus shell used for buttons and ornaments from German New Guinea to Austria before the war. Japan now dominates the trade with many boats engaged in Trocus fishing. Trocus soup appears in Chinese restaurants in Rabaul and the islands, but harvesting the shell safely is hard. Boiling preserves lustre, immersion kills the fish, and dried Trocus is exported to China.
The naval correspondent reports immense costs for modern warships in a parliamentary answer. Totals for ships built or laid down, including the Furious and other prewar designs, reach millions with per ton rates noted, showing the high expense of fleet modernization.
The Westminster Gazette notes that the Science Museum South Kensington has added an 1898 four cylinder Daimler to its basement collection. Ten of forty pre war cars from Oxford Street are mounted for permanent exhibition, including a Constatt Daimler 1904 and an 1897 electric motor troughaut. The fate of Colonel Crompton's Blue Belle remains doubtful.
A hotel dog Rex mourned Colonel C. Murray who died at the Hotel Victoria Alder shot England. The dog lay on the coffin beneath a Union Jack at the funeral, vanished for three days, refused to eat after returning, and died on a cushion, embodying a devoted response to the master’s death.
Ancient stone traps remain on the upper Darling, forming long zigzag lanes with blind alleys to guide fish. A stake fence and central net grip existed in some places, with gaps spanned by spear-wielding fishermen. Captain Sturt’s party even rerouted to avoid breaking one trap.
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