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Read more about the article 1894 “blanket list” in a NSW country policeman’s notebook
A rural police residence, possibly Kempsey. Perhaps the home of Alfred James Burrows.

1894 “blanket list” in a NSW country policeman’s notebook

Dick, Caroline, Magpie Billy, Maria, Bullseye Tommy, Jerry, Nancy, Jenny, George, Selina, Kitty, Jim Crow, Emily, Ebony, Topsy, Tiger, Old Billie, Dolly, Mary Anne & child, Emma, Spider Tom, Nellie, Alice & baby . . . Flicking through an antique pocket notebook that once belonged to a police constable in western NSW, I was arrested by the page headed: "Blankets 1894". In a notebook otherwise full of shopping lists, maudlin poetry, betting notes for horse races, lists of belongings at the scenes of lonely rural deaths and descriptions of wanted horse thieves, this unassuming list struck…

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Read more about the article Milton Merrilees, Newcastle press photographic legend

Milton Merrilees, Newcastle press photographic legend

Among numerous fine photographers to be employed over many decades by the Herald and Sun daily newspapers in Newcastle, NSW, the name of Milton Merrilees stands out among the best. An extremely dedicated newsman and a passionate photographer, Merrilees was popular with workmates and the public alike, establishing a reputation as a gentlemanly but tenacious photo-journalist. He began working as a cadet photographer in 1937 and was pictorial editor for the Herald and the Sun when he retired in 1979. With a career that spanned the years of World War 2 he saw tremendous changes in…

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Read more about the article Cutting sugar shrunk my gut

Cutting sugar shrunk my gut

I’m no health food nut, but back in COVID-year 2020 I got a sudden urge to cut back hard on my sugar intake. It was partly that, based on a few things I’d read, it occurred to me that maybe all the sugar I was eating was giving my liver a hard time. But also I was noticing that my belts and pants were shrinking – or at least they weren’t fitting properly anymore and my gut was becoming bigger than I was used to. A Harvard Medical School article about sugar And from the British…

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