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Newspaper
Yea Chronicle
Location
Yea, Victoria, Australia
Date
Jul 25, 1918
Page
5
Julia Gordan, pressured by her husband’s social schemes, prepares for a theatre night with Conyngham and Lady Victo, while inner conflicts with Harry Veraker and family estrangement surface. Captain Conyngham offers steadfast friendship to Julia as Gordon pursues appearances over true partnership.
Edward Conyngham plans a direct appeal to Alec Lindsay to warn him of Julia Gordon’s peril and to protect her from her gambler husband. Donald Lindsay writes a confession to his father admitting past sins while Conyngham arranges a bank letter and a meeting to obtain Lindsay’s address.
The piece traces Harry Lauder from rough beginnings in Scotland through mining and factory work to his first London breakthrough. It recalls his struggle against rejection, a pivotal meeting with manager Tinsley at Gatti's, and rapid West End success that kept him in London ever since.
A Scot long in the colonies chats with an old schoolmate about acquaintances. The arranger asks about Geordie McMay. His friend replies he is dead long ago and the speaker vows lasting regret. The twist: he married McMay's widow, not out of respect but as a marriage in vengeance.
Historic wartime pigeon program hailed by the New York Herald shows American lofts on Governor's Island and in camps training homing pigeons for the aviation corps and navy. Messages fly from observers behind lines to headquarters, delivering vital battlefield information and boosting morale amid shellfire.
A curtain state of affairs exists on the Peking Hangkow line with music halls, no fences, and officials in flowing garments acting as multiple spies. Trains are halted by theft, guards, soldiers, and chaotic crowding as passengers crowd windows and clerks extort. The line shuts for the night with soldiers on the platform.
The speaker notes the Kaiser’s past grief over a “decadent” France, but argues Germany now faces a "great Terrest" and suggests hundreds of soldiers vow to exterminate the Hohenzollern line, labeling them the world’s greatest pests.
The most curious railway in Britain is the Listowel and Ballybonion line in Ireland. A ten mile line uses a single rail system with twin boilers and a large central smokestack, supported on iron trestles. It features unusual locomotives balancing on a single rail and passengers seated back to back along the cars.
Mr Hickardsen spoke on the history of electricity from early Chinese knowledge to modern developments. He traced discoveries and experiments from Thales and amber rubbing to Guericke Newton Volta Faraday and later advances in telegraphy and lighting.
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