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Newspaper
Wellington Times
Location
Wellington, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Jun 19, 1924
Page
7
A historical advertises a hair treatment claim by Dean Keaver’s extract that supposedly reverses grey hair. It touts permanent results for men and women, promising the return of natural youth color and widespread consumer use, with directions to order the product from dealers.
A public school magazine recounts exam woes and student antics. Teachers suffer colds while several pupils misbehave praised for courage and wit. The piece notes tents for year-end living, a dream incident about burning books, and a wishful outlook for the second year students.
A fragment from Nome reflects on school life as holidays near with students delayed in classes. It mentions teachers, quiet classrooms, and pupils planning long holidays while some students take extended breaks. The piece ends with a signature: STEPHENS, 7 years.
A fragmented fairy tale follows a sulky girl Joyce in a Scottish village. A kindly fairy guides her to a fishing town and a hospital where abused children live, exposing harsh factory harms and poverty’s toll on families and lives.
In a weekend football match W.LH.S faced Dubbo with a 2 to 1 lead at half, Wellington winning 3 to 2 after a fast second half. Dubbo fought back but W.LH.S defenders, including Koya, held firm. Attendance was modest. practice is limited by the school ground conditions. A return game will be at Dubbo after the holidays.
A girl named Fern vents at home and yanks blue bells in a bush. She is lifted by fairies to a queen who tests her behavior. Promises to be kind to her mother and never harm the bells, and returns home to find she is changed and well behaved. Kathleen Busch, Year.
J Curry and J Greaves recount an imagined vessel the Ormander a modern 80 000 ton liner with twelve Rolls Royce engines capable of 40 knots. It features a swimming bath diving tower multiple cabins three classes dining halls two doctors and four nurses on board a small hospital and ample leisure spaces marking a contrast to old sailing ships.
Edinburgh is praised as a beautiful world city with Princes Street memorials, Edinburgh Castle on its hill, the public library and Holyrood Palace nearby, the Forth Bridge, a famed university, and public gardens once a lake now laid out with careful design.
The passage explains Edinburgh’s topography with three hills and the nickname Modern Athens. It details the division into old and new towns, naming the Castle Holyrood Palace and University as anchors of the old town, the public garden as a boundary, and a lofty lion-shaped hill near the Palace. It cites Matheson and Shakespeare, and a year reference.
A student narrator describes a spring morning full of birds and warm sun, noting green grass flowers and a brook with fish. He sees a curious squirrel drink and rooftops of a homestead as a school year, Jack Stephens, 2nd year, wakes.
In Wellington Police Court, three drunks were fined for drunkenness after a constable described them as a general menace to the town. A fourth man faced theft charges, alleged to involve £18 from Charles Lewis at Exchange Hotel, with evidence including recovered notes and a search of rooms. A prior offender received a longer sentence for drunkenness.
A disrupted court record describes a theft and drunkenness case. Witnesses recount a suspect’s room, a wallet with pound notes, and a bar wallet pulling incident. Hotel keeper testifies suspect stayed as a boarder, with timelines noting Thursday events and a late night whisky. The defense and cross examination are noted. the trial date is recorded as the 22nd.
A garbled report lists entries and match pairings for multiple divisions at a Dublin tennis tournament. Names such as Neate, Miss Neate, Miss Parker, and Mr. Wade appear along with various doubles teams and handicaps across men’s, women’s, and mixed events.
The readable text is garbled and contains many incoherent phrases and invented names. It mentions various odd terms like Mon. TC and Wellington Werk, with references to influence cures and a “Woods” Gruat Pepparmlat Cure, but no coherent event or identifiable facts. The item resembles a damaged clipping with no clear report.
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