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  2. BELIEVE IT OR NOT

    Upon requetest, accompanied by a stamped, self-addressed envelop for the reply, Mr. Ripley will furnish proof of any statement which he makes. Letters should be addressed: Mr. Robert L. Ripley, "Believe It or Not," c/o "The Argus," Elizabeth Street Melbourne C.I. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 53 words
  3. Advertising

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    Advertising : 704 words
  4. CULINARY DELIGHTS A JUBILEE BANQUET OF 1897

    KING EDWARD VII. inaugurated the fashion of short dinners. It is not as far a cry as many think to the times of ...

    Article : 917 words
  5. Answers to Correspondents

    C. T. (Capitol Theatre).—Owing to the lack of certain ingredients known as "zambals" (special kind of vegetables) the perfect Eastern curry is difficult to reproduce. Here are ...

    Article : 375 words
  6. FROM FAR AND NEAR WAH FOR LONG BEDS

    MR. PHIL ZIMMERMAN, of Topeka (U.S.A.), is a travelling salesman, well over 6ft, in height. He got tired of kinking himself into hotel beds and pullman berths, ...

    Article : 170 words
  7. In the Papers

    HOW the Prince of Wales' visit to Brazil in 1931 resulted in a £3,000,000 order for Great Britain was told by the Earl of ...

    Article : 706 words
  8. POSTING LETTERS

    THE commonest form of forgetfulness, I suppose, occurs in the matter of posting letters (writes "Y.Y." in the "New Statesman"). So common is it that I am ...

    Article : 216 words
  9. A PHANTOM SHIP OF TO-DAY

    CENTURION, fleet target-ship, is the strangest as well as the oldest vessel in the Royal Navy. Some years ago this obsolete battle-ship had her guns and ...

    Article : 316 words
  10. Crossword Solution No. 137

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 68 words
  11. CAMERA CROSSWORD No. 138

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 145 words
  12. A REVULSION FROM CHEESE

    THE head of a Japanese trade mission to canade who has declared that the Japanese "look on cheese with revulsion" reveals an unexpected affinity ...

    Article : 192 words
  13. A POCKET AIRSHIP

    FLYING is very much interested just now in a little British "pocket airliner" which is just out of its testing stage. Since June it has flown 23,900 ...

    Article : 208 words
  14. BIGGER AND BETTER GERMAN

    THE Chief Burgomaster of Fraukfurt has sent to all municipal departments a list of the German versions, to be used in future, of hitherto customary foreign ...

    Article : 93 words
  15. BALM FOR BROKEN HEARTS

    A FLOURISHING industry that for years has been providing handsomely for the old age of numberless attractive young women, and buying little comforts ...

    Article : 210 words
  16. PICKING CARDS BY TOUCH

    CAPTAIN GERALD LOWRY, a blind osteopath, who gave evidence in the King's Bench Division, London, recently, said that his sense of touch had been ...

    Article : 113 words
  17. Advertising

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    Advertising : 249 words
  18. A PARLIAMENTARY JOKE

    THE official report of the Parliamentary debates perpetracted one of its best jokes recently (says "The Times"). On the previous evening Mr. Seymour ...

    Article : 117 words
  19. TWO HUNDRED MILES OF GLASS

    EVERY day a middle-aged man sits at an old-fashioned treadle-loom in the Lancashire town of St. Helens. A light grindstone is fitted to the loom, and on ...

    Article : 113 words
  20. THE IDEAL KITCHEN

    A RETIRED business man of 75, Mr. Anthony Trew, of Poole Dorset (England), has won the first prize, of £500, in a national kitchen-planning competition ...

    Article : 243 words
  21. PRESERVING THE PROPRIETIES

    HOW great a gulf of time—reckoned in any other way than by years— separates "Cranford" from the England of 1935, and yet (writes a correspondent) ...

    Article : 201 words
  22. CAN SEE AFTER 18 YEARS

    AFTER 18 years of blindness, David Williams, of Deiniolen, Carnarvonshire, who is now 20 years of age, has has his sight restored by an operation ...

    Article : 123 words
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