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WORLD BULLETINS READING RACE
MAGDEBURG (Germany).—Herr Otta Schulze read 595 syllables in one minute in at "reading race" at Gotha, Central Germany. Competitors from ...
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IN A YEAR—OR NEVER! JAPAN'S LIGHTNING INVASION
The remarkable speed with which Japan is attempting the conquest and subjugation of China has astounded the world. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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COUNCIL GOES "WET"
THERE should be no dry arguments at to-morrow's meeting of the Perth City Council—the first for the New Year. For the ban on the three per cents., while council meetings are in progress, has been lifted. ...
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This Explains Four Recent Accidents
When the poles to carry the overhead gear for the trolley buses were erected in Mount's Bay-road, "The Sunday Times" drew attention to the danger of erecting ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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GIRL'S EYE SHOT OUT
A CHILDREN'S COURT case is likely to follow the East Perth toy-gun shooting episode (narrated in last week's "Sunday Times"), ...
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PERFORMING PRISONERS
LONDON.—A Christmas pantomime planned at Wakefield Prison had to be abandoned. Too many prisoners wanted to play parts. A variety ...
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COBRAS ATTRACTED
SINGAPORE.—Lured from its jungle lair by wireless music, a deadly 5ft. cobra was trapped by a coolie cutting grass at the Singapore Radio Station. ...
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KING'S KINDNESS
LONDON.—By command of the King several tons of logs from Windsor Forest were distributed among the poor and unemployed of Windsor as a ...
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DRESS CAUSES ACCIDENT
WOLLONGONG.—Ernest Upton was riding a motor cycle to a dance with Winnie Sawtelle riding pillion. Her evening dress became entangled in a ...
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MADMEN Moneylenders
A NEW form of racket is reported from the Jacksonville State Mental Hospital. Inquiring as a result of persistent ...
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FOOT SLOGGERS Still Decisive War Factor
IN THE view of General Malin Craig. Chief of Staff of the United States army, the foot soldier is still as decisive a factor in war as he ...
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CUPID'S WINGS
LONDON.—Mr. Walter Grimaldi, registrar of marriages at Tottenham, has performed more than 21,000 marriages, and now wants to add more ...
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SNAKE IN HIS EAR!
MELBOURNE.—Kevin Graham, of the Federal Public Works Department, will long remember a sleep in Central Australia. A pain and a weight in the ...
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DICTATES TO DICTATOR
AN AMUSING story is going the diplomatic rounds suggesting that Mussolini is not always the dictator in private life. ...
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Green-Yolked Eggs
THE NEWEST 1938 food novelty sprang upon Cabaret diners here is an egg with a green yolk. ...
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De MILLE May Be Senator
HOLLYWOOD, Sat. CECIL B.De Mille, noted director of "King of Kings" of silent days, and many ...
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NINETY-SEVEN TO-DAY
Mrs. Conigrave, of Ord-street, West Perth, enjoys grand health even though she's making for the century in years. To-day she is 97. Recently she recited at a party at her daughter's place. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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HOLED IN ONE
LONDON.—Eddie Whitcombe did his first hole-in-one. But made golfing history by failing to win the hole He was playing a friendly game at ...
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THREE TIMES MARRIED
KORDEN (Yugoslavia).—Janko Lukitch, 19-year-old peasant boy has married for the third time. He married his first wife when he was 14. She was ...
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LONGER SHIRTS
WHILE the Nazi authorities are ordering that men's attire shall be one inch shorter in order to save material, Senator Josh Lee ...
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WAR IN CHINA Causes Herb Shortage
THE Sino-Japanese war is proving an unexpected hindrance to manufacturers of patent medicines (particularly laxatives) in Britain ...
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PAYING PENSIONS FOR 122 YEARS
Although the war of 1812 between Britain and the United States was ended by the Treaty of Ghent on Christmas Eve 122 years ...
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SIXPENCE IN SLOT
LONDON.—Automatic machines to sell beer in the street and outside railway stations at all hours of the day and night are planned for early this ...
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Breaks Records Despite Crawley's Rough Water
Visiting swimming officials condemned Crawley Baths for competitive events owing to the water being too rough. But it doesn't affect backstroke champion and Australian Olympic and Empire Games representative Percy Oliver, seen here ploughing through the choppy water in which he has broken many records. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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A LOSER THROUGH GOING TO THE WAR
ONE unemployed Perth man, at least, finds himself a loser through going to the war. Married, but separated from his wife, whom he supports, this man is in receipt of a war pension amounting to 6/3—not a sum upon which one ...
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SANTA CLAUS
TELEPHONE companies in a number of towns throughout the Middle West show a large increase in revenue for December. ...
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SOAP FROM COAL WILL WASH NAZIS
GERMANS will soon be performing their daily toilet with a product of coal. By a new chemical process It has ...
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