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The Sunshine Advocate choose

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[Aus] Sunshine Advocate (Vic.) 22 Jan. 2/2: The Old Postie [...] the mail at the local post office used to be handed out by an irish boy.
at postie, n.
[Aus] Sunshine Advocate (Vic.) 30 Jan. 1/1: Praise for Postie [...] A word of appreciation foer the new postman on the Sydney Street round.
at postie, n.
[Aus] Sunshine Advocate (Vic.) 11 Sept. 6/3: ‘Blacks’ are blackmailers.
at black, n.
[Aus] Sunshine Advocate (Vic.) 11 Sept. 6/3: A card sharper belongs to the ‘broad mob,’ and their cards are called ‘dracs’.
at broad mob (n.) under broads, n.
[Aus] Sunshine Advocate (Vic.) 11 Sept. 6/3: Pickpockets are known to their associates are whizzers [...] The men who work with them are ‘covers’.
at cover, n.
[Aus] Sunshine Advocate (Vic.) 11 Sept. 6/3: A card sharper belongs to the ‘broad mob,’ and their cards are called ‘dracs’.
at dracs, n.
[Aus] Sunshine Advocate (Vic.) 11 Sept. 6/3: Those who steal parcels from delivery carts are ‘van draggers’.
at van dragger, n.
[Aus] Sunshine Advocate (Vic.) 11 Sept. 6/3: A shop lifter is a ‘hoister’.
at hoister, n.
[Aus] Sunshine Advocate (Vic.) 11 Sept. 6/3: ‘Kite flyers’ are criminals who cash worthless cheques.
at kite-flyer (n.) under kite, n.
[Aus] Sunshine Advocate (Vic.) 11 Sept. 6/3: Those who gild metal chains to sell them as gold are ‘slang dippers,’ while those who dispose of them are ‘slang droppers’.
at slang-dipper (n.) under slang, n.2
[Aus] Sunshine Advocate (Vic.) 17 Jan. 1/4: He realized that ‘Whelan the Wrecker’ was only a novice alongside the persons who could cause an article like that to be published.
at Whelan the Wrecker, n.
[Aus] Sunshine Advocate (Vic.) 11 Sept. 6/3: Pickpockets are known to their associates are whizzers, dips or hooks.
at whizzer, n.2
[Aus] Sunshine Advocate (Vic.) 23 Apr. 1/3: [headline] Played the Wag. Charles Smith [...] was fined 5/- [...] for failing to send his child to school.
at play the wag (v.) under wag, n.1
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