26 Jan 1916
Page 1
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Newspaper
Armidale Chronicle
Location
Armidale, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Jan 26, 1916
Page
1
A wartime appeal asks parents and sweethearts to supply a wristwatch and other gifts for a soldier departing for the front. The note promises a gallant son will treasure the presents and signals free sight testing and top quality spectacles from the optical department run by Horner Fletcher.
A garbled, era-spliced narrative mixes crime, fairground chatter, legal-sounding notes, and stray dialogue. Names appear scantily, with scattered references to a tavern, a court case, and a theater scene, plus an abrupt advice paragraph about a cough remedy.
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