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Newspaper
Wellington Times
Location
Wellington, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Jun 06, 1918
Page
8
A long seed catalog line lists numerous flower seeds including pansy and sweet peas with varied colors and packet prices. It enumerates annuals and perennials such as Anemone Ra nonedius Delphinium Cineroria Cyclamen and more, plus vegetables like cauliflower Autumn Giant true strain and general vegetable seeds. Prices range from 4d per packet to 1 shilling and up, with many entries noting varieties such as Spencers and Mundreds of Varieties.
A historical call to action on tuberculosis notes Koch's bacillus as a powerful tool, but only if society improves housing, sanitation, and health services. It argues infection spreads from patients to healthy soil and urges comprehensive public health reform to stamp out the disease.
A discussion of highly accurate clocks that keep time to a hundredth of a second per year and display year month day and global times. Mention of Hampton Court Palace reactivating a clock from 1480 and a Midlands man’s clock rumored to run without winding for fifteen years and claim fifty years of operation.
The article notes new separation allowance rates from April 5: wife 3d per day and each child under 16 6d per day. It lists dependent fortnightly incomes combining allotment, allowance, and Lord Mayor's Fund support for wives and children, with varying totals for different family sizes.
The piece argues that extended war measures push shopkeepers toward obsolescence as state and municipal food committees gain power. Fixed prices, rationing, and centralized supply threaten small grocers, butchers, bakers, and milkmen while local committees control shop customer quotas and distribution.
Weather table based on Herschel's data transposes northern to southern forecasts. It lists lunar phases with expected conditions for three days around each date including fresh notes on moon phases and weather types such as rain frost snow and fair skies.
Extracts from J W Gerard former American ambassador in Berlin reveal German spy networks across Europe and beyond. He details spy trials, cipher hacks, diplomatic mail breaches, and incidents in Spain Havana and Mexico, plus German propaganda financing and covert operations.
A column argues marriage thrives on obstacles and conflict. It asserts divorce trends stem from urging easy divorce and praises perpetual separation as a path to stronger love. It proposes legal limits on cohabitation to preserve passion and avoid dull domestic life, claiming courts would vanish.
Editorial urges strict economy during the world crisis and promotes Dr Morse Indian Root Pills as a cheap, preventive remedy. It claims the pills keep the liver and kidneys in order, avoid expensive medical care, and cost one shilling to one and threepence per bottle with about forty pills each.
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