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Newspaper
Toodyay Herald
Location
Toodyay, Western Australia, Australia
Date
May 03, 1940
Page
2
An aging humorous exchange notes a face that grows on a person while another admits it does not grow on him. The fragment shows a playful verbal back and forth between a candid speaker and a respondent.
The W A T C meeting features top horses entering at Headquarters this Saturday and Monday. The program includes a high weight handicap and several seven furlong and one mile events with weights listed for Saturday’s opening day races.
Handicaps listed for Gloucester Park on Saturday include entries such as Diemert Lady Mack Deceiver Percy's Lad Walemy Lows Master Antique and Baron Antigue. Odds and positions appear fragmented with multiple misread names and numbers.
A fragmented page lists horses and handicaps including the Perth Handicap and Achilles Handicap, with multiple runners like Flying Daly Broadland and Sir Raymond. The dense OCR shows race names, entries, and odds, plus an advertisement for Dr Rentel's Vitality Pills and related medical products.
The piece quotes Consul-General Thomas M. Wilson calling Australians hardy but skeptical about American tourism. It argues against turning travel into an amusement spectacle and urges improving local housing and transport for residents, not for rich visitors. Anzac Day 1940 is noted as celebrated with mateship and sacrifice honored.
A wartime column discusses gender roles and camaraderie at Gallipoli, recalling old mates and the Colonel's whisky incident. C. Hartley Grattan questions Pacific policy and argues friendship with the USA is essential, while noting the editor’s caveat that opinions are one man's view.
A garbled OCR fragment lists a painter and wife in a small Trish village, then shifts to unrelated quips about prison life and a matrimonial agent. It includes marketing lines for fur come-ons at a Plaza Arcade corner and salvaged building materials in Perth, with scattered personal names and place hints.
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