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  2. PICTORIAL

    Breaking up a 2[?]000 block of Granite for use in the North Shore Bridge "WHIRLWIND" AIR-COOLED MOTOR—that carried Lindbergh 3800 miles across the Atlantic. It made 3,650,000 revolutions on the trip. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 173 words
  3. Floating For 32 Years.

    When the late Mr. Clement Wragge was chief of the Weather Bureau in Brisbane he sought the co-operation of a number of ship-masters in a proposal ...

    Article : 269 words
  4. SERIAL STORY

    Already the ship's officers were busy getting the passengers into their respective boats. Suddenly the ship gave a violent lurch to starboard, and the port ...

    Article : 1,109 words
  5. Melbourne Transport Services.

    One of the most remarkable features of the growth, of Melbourne has been the increase in travelling, due to the provision of railway and tramway ...

    Article : 350 words
  6. Food and Figures.

    The New Yorker, to whom questions of diet are very dear, can lunch at places where he knows in advance how many calories will be contained in his ...

    Article : 216 words
  7. In Return for a Kiss.

    A romantic promise was fulfilled at the wedding, which has just taken place, of Miss Doris Lewis, of Romford, England. Shortly after she was born, Mr. ...

    Article : 106 words
  8. Bullet-Proof Glass.

    Demand for bullet-proof glass on the part of the gunmen, bootieggers and rum runners in America has reached a point where safety requires that the ...

    Article : 169 words
  9. Baby Sues Its Nurse.

    Through the medium of her father, a seven-months-old child has brought a suit against her nurse in the Prague Court. The case for the prossecution ...

    Article : 106 words
  10. Reclaiming Newsprint.

    A process of reclaiming newsprint to make it usable a second time by removing the ink from the original printed paper is claimed to have been ...

    Article : 215 words
  11. TREE SWALLOWS HYMN BOOK

    Thirty years ago Mrs. C. J. Kemp, of Glen innes (N.S.W.) lost a presentation hymn book. The book has now turned up again under remarkable ...

    Article : 204 words
  12. Abos. in the West.

    In Western Australia 121,000,000 acres are reserved for aborigines, of which approximately 7,500,000 acres are in the Kimberley district. The reserves, with ...

    Article : 140 words
  13. Silk Hats and Safety.

    Silk hats are the best insurance against being run over by a motor car in the London traffic jam. 'Bus and taxi drivers generally regard the ...

    Article : 132 words
  14. 33-Year-Old Cow.

    For a cow to live 25 years is unusual, but an instance of remarkable longevity comes from Boomah (N.S.W.), where a Shorthorn cow, belonging to the ...

    Article : 86 words
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