Comstockery Mockery
ITALIAN NUDES BANNED 50 PRINTS SEIZED DECLARING that their subject matter is prurient, the Customs Department has seized 50 prints of a painting by the...
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Scrabble babble & oodles of Doodles
Scrabble Is Latest Game Craze New York. Right here in the middle of the television age, a parlor-game craze is sweeping America. All the wise...
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Happy and Panda
Harry Montague Hammond (7 May 1916 – 1 April 1998), professionally known as Happy Hammond, was an Australian comedian, radio host and children’s television show host, and television producer....
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A Pox on the Boks
Springbok Rugby Protest – 3 July 1971 I went to a lot of protests and marches as a teenager in Melbourne but none was so...
Comstockery Mockery
ITALIAN NUDES BANNED 50 PRINTS SEIZED DECLARING that their subject matter is prurient, the Customs Department has seized 50 prints of a painting by the...
Scrabble babble & oodles of Doodles
Scrabble Is Latest Game Craze New York. Right here in the middle of the television age, a parlor-game craze is sweeping America. All the wise...
Happy and Panda
Harry Montague Hammond (7 May 1916 – 1 April 1998), professionally known as Happy Hammond, was an Australian comedian, radio host and children’s television show host, and television producer....
A Pox on the Boks
Springbok Rugby Protest – 3 July 1971 I went to a lot of protests and marches as a teenager in Melbourne but none was so...
Telling Spelling
During my extended online trawls through old Australian newspapers, it became very noticeable that through the 19th century and up until about WW1, all of...
Of corset isn’t
Stays and Springs: THE CORSET IS LOSING ITS HOLD. WHAT PHYSICIANS SAY OF THE ABOLITION OF WAIST SQUEEZERS. Pull, Mary pull. It is not half...
Down on Sundowners
I was a quite surprised, when scanning our old newspapers, at the repeatedly negative portrayal of our “sundowners” or “swaggies” as I’d call them. Lazy,...
Vumps Stumped
“Vumps” has been proclaimed as Australia’s “first comic book” – published in Sydney in 1908. Unfortunately it didn’t survive beyond the first issue, despite high...
To Marquet to draw a Fat Pig
CLAUDE MARQUET A SKETCH OF A GREAT CARTOONIST’S CAREER Gone from this earth for evermore Claude Marquet, The Worker’s official cartoonist, and undeniably one of...
Spate of great bookplate
Ex Libris When I moved my abode from house to boat a year ago, one of the most difficult decisions was how do “rationalise” a...