Vita-Weat biscuits were introduced in Australia in 1932, by the UK company Peak Frean’s. For many years the factory was located in the Syndey suburb of Ashfield. The cartoon style advertisements in the Women’s Weekly during the 1930s were hilarious At least women weren’t the only target,
Read more →When ‘Doctor’ Paul Rene Loubet was unmasked as an imposter in September 1917 he left behind a grieving, bewildered young widow. Nell Kent Loubet (nee Hughes) immediately moved back to her family’s home in Toorak. More positively, she graduated from Melbourne University in January 1918 as a
Read more →By early February 1917 Dr Paul Loubet had moved from Blackall in outback Queensland to Melbourne. He was to act as locum tenens for Dr Roland Lane, a Footscray G.P. who was on military duty. Dr Lane and his wife Hazel had a large home called
Read more →THE PAUL LOUBET STORY, PART TWO (BLACKALL). FOR THE FIRST EPISODE, CLICK HERE. From The Morning Bulletin (Rockhampton) ‘Our informant happened to be in Jericho when Dr Loubet and a very fine looking woman, who was introduced everywhere as Mrs Loubet, were going through to Blackall.
Read more →The story of Paul Rene Loubet and his life in Australia reads more like fiction than real life, and researching it has been quite a challenge, albeit a fascinating one. This is the first ‘chapter’. Annabel Illingworth married young doctor Percy Webber Black in London in March
Read more →On May 7 1927 a strange story appeared in the Newcastle Sun. It said that a Mr George Bressington had been walking along a beach at Tuggerah, on the NSW Central Coast, when he unearthed a half buried wine bottle. On one side there was an etching
Read more →It’s not often a small outback town can boast of having an Earl open their garden fete, but that’s what happened at Molong in 1897. The man responsible for the coup was Mr John Young, ex-mayor of Sydney and owner of the huge Burrawong Estate at Molong.
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