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Newspaper
Toodyay Herald
Location
Toodyay, Western Australia, Australia
Date
Dec 08, 1944
Page
3
Assistant-general Manager Pyke says the Commonwealth Disposals Commission will not sell items to individuals retail. Hundreds of inquiries arrive daily about surplus war goods valued at £200,000,000 including jeeps, launches, clothing, trucks, ships, and stores. Goods will be sold wholesale after state and commonwealth needs are met, with launches offered to original owners.
A vintage health ad describes tired listless middle age, claiming Dr Williams Pink Pills build blood iron and red cells, revive nerves and tissues, relieve headaches and anemia symptoms, and restore vigor. Available at chemists and stores.
William Gallagher a 69 year old former Minneapolis street sweeper and janitor raised about 200 dollars for his campaign and won as Democratic Farmer Labor rep after a tally error changed the result. He will receive a 60 dollar monthly pension for people over 60 and supports a National single tax and an international police force.
A satirical parable contrasts socialism capitalism fascism and Nazism over two cows with varying government roles. It also reports cows fed coal to boost protein, and provides tomato juice canning and hair care tips including sun exposure cautions and hair oil massage advice.
A salesman from the Mountain Wool Company offers coarse yarns to a customer asking for a couple of samples. The exchange captures a brief sales interaction in a domestic setting.
Sydney physician Dr Basil Williams argues in the Australian Medical Journal that a mother's duties exceed ordinary work. He lists fatigue symptoms and recommends diet, vitamins, supervised sedatives, relaxation, radio listening, reduced alcohol, and ample sleep as treatments.
The Japs profit from Hitler's errors as Nazis overextend and hold too long. They pull back to a reduced defensive zone while strengthening on land sea and air. Do not be surprised by surprises and beware upbeat news masking losses.
Eight Chinese engineers brought to the United States by UNKUKAL discuss renaming the Yellow River from China’s Sorrow to River of Blessing. They cite silt levels at Honan station and predict channel shifts, noting irrigation and reclamation work with US programs like the Tennessee Valley Authority. They also plan to study Danube and Russian dam rebuilding, and describe China's thirty year plan to utilize rivers for agriculture, citing 800 000 acres irrigated and wheat yields rising from 400 to 2000 pounds per acre.
The government plans a vast farm equipment program in 1944 45 to boost tractor farming. Australia will import more tractors from the UK and US with 10 000 on order and about 6 000 due this year. Nineteen hundred manufacturers are producing £7 000 000 worth of equipment including new items like potato diggers sprayers dusters and beet lifters enabling extensive mechanised vegetable growing.
The article promotes HEENZO COUGH REMEDY as a quick, safe, economical cough solution for adults and children. A bottle costing 2/ makes a pint of remedy to treat coughs colds croup bronchitis sore throats and influenza. Order HEENZO from your supplier.
Reports from Saipan reveal mass suicides among Japanese civilians and soldiers as Americans closed in. Propaganda bred fear of torture and death, driving many to drown themselves leap from cliffs or kill family members before taking their own lives.
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