Flying Notes of the Week on Early Aviation Happenings
Aviation news by Wing notes reports Lord Wakefield funding a German Rumpler passenger craft to carry 170 passengers with 10 engines, plus a Cockstop Dock project for Charles Kingsford Smith. Smithy to England and a New Zealand flight with Cros. Queensland aero club pages, Puss Moths from QANTAS, and a world circling formation by ten engines. Post sets world record and misreported crash headlines. Egyptian coast relics from Aboukir and Sodom and Gomorrah seen from the air.
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Lord Wakefield
Abi
Ulm
Treland
Aly
Wee
Rumpler Co
Wackett
Cockstop Dock
Charles Kingsford Smith
Smithy
England Mail
AtlLer Comple
New Zealand
England
Fiyga
Percival Gull
Queensland
Tohe
Tommy McDonald
Atherton
Qantas
Americg
Sydney
Wily Post
Daily Prey
Aboukir
Sodom
Gomer
Boomaun Practical Watchmaker and Jeweller
Boomaun a practical watchmaker and jeweller operates opposite Bowling Green Povey Street providing repair and sales services to local customers with emphasis on quality craftsmanship and timely service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boomaun
Bowling Green
Povey Street
Unemployment Relief Tax Returns Call to Employers
An advertisement by the Commissioner of Taxation requests every employer to submit a return to the Warwick Building Hamilton Street Sydney by August 24 1888. The form requires total employers and employee counts by specified groups tied to weekly safety outage grades for the week ended 22 June. Data will be used by the Government Statistician to assess unemployment relief tax rates under the Prevention and Relief of Unemployment Act.
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Commissioner of Taxation
Warwick Building
Hamilton Street
Sydney
Ita
Bern
IL In
Alarming Youth Fads and Elite Vanity in Verse
A fragmented humorous piece satirizes youthful alarmism and aristocratic vanity, critiquing dieting extremes and air kryptonite myths. It ridicules Lord Carnock and peers while mocking anxieties about appearance and aging through a mock sermon on fashion, health fads, and social status.
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Lond Carnock
Car Hock
Metropolitan Press
Australian Home Makers Embrace Do It Yourself Fashion
Overseas visitor debunked as a gadabout claim. An Australian publisher highlights how millions of patterns from Every Lady's Journal and The New Ten empower home loving women to sew their own clothes. August issue offers four patterns and fifty designs with five size options, promoting value with hundreds of patterns and articles for five dollars.
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Everylady
Everylady's
Aleasandy
Free prize puzzle offer from Haylie Rubber Co Sydney
Twenty pounds in cash prizes invite readers to solve a puzzle called the fret wt fos hind 10 be minde of Avatratlin. No purchase required. send in labels with a two penny stamp and postage to Haylie Rubber Co Sydney, mentioning the paper.
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Aloe Maisie Rubber Co
Gtk
Haylie Rubber Co, Ltd
Sydney
Indigestion and digestion remedies in curious ad copy
An excerpt blends medical quackery about Dr Morea’s Indian Root Pills with a satirical, fragmentary nostalgia for old foods and social manners. It rails at indigestion and constipation while mentioning wines, pickled pork, pumpkin pie, and Roman feasts, echoing a muddled era tone and assorted curios.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morea
The Pharisies King's Mansions A Flight From London
Kitty, a married woman fleeing her husband, travels from London to Caerglar by train. She endures crowded carriages, small meals, and hopeful fantasies of home and reconciliation as she contemplates revealing her story to her father. The journey stages her resolve and sketches her imagined reception in the village.
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King's Mansions
Caberink
Paddington
London
Kitty
Dad
Maggie Ann
Tandon
Poniar
Rosaning
Triand
Angvisi
David
Tondo
Caerglar
Thoms
Job
Rowe
Ballimore
Fragmentary tribute on a lost friend in broken verse
The piece laments a friend lost, recalling how he was here just yesterday and how words fail to measure his impact. It laments absence and the swift passage from life to memory, with scattered, archaic phrasing and incomplete lines.
Powder Charmosan Promises Youthful Skin
An old advertisement touts Powder Charmosan as a beauty aid enhancing youth and charm. It claims the powder smooths skin, awakens radiance, and makes the user look younger, with a price of 2 shillings 4 pence per box. The tone imitates a lively late 19th or early 20th century sales pitch.
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Marrien
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H. Bowden Fletcher
Hon
See
Narromine Agro Club
Sable
Old England
Lord Carnock
Bom
John Bull
Emily
Krypton
Gadabouts
Cash
Jasin
Zoulden
Whipanade
Tarim
Enhind
Enghand
Tsaring Yi
Lee Wnt
Ianwers
Arn
Hearne
Pharisees
M. Morgan Gibson
Ashough
Wright
Arnouts
Biscu
Holbrook
Ocean Cruises
Smith Unitas
Sidney Ar
WELK
Metinro Bantaine
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