Almanac Giveaway Acknowledges Loyal December Customers
A local retailer announces an almanac giveaway for customers who spend a minimum amount and promises more than twenty other valuable presents for their largest December shoppers.
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Newspaper
Ashburton Guardian
Location
Ashburton, Canterbury, New Zealand
Date
Dec 26, 1913
Page
7
Price at the Mill Reported Discounted Conveyance
A brief item notes a price at the mill with a deduction of eight and three pence per hundred feet and a two percent cash discount offered.
New Zealand Engineer Reports From International Road Congress
Mr F. W. Burkert, Inspector-Engineer for the Public Works Department, traveled eight months abroad visiting Britain, Europe, and America. He attended the International Roads Congress and Imperial Motor Transport Congress, noting wood paving, tar spraying, motor traction prospects, and Belgiums light railway success. He will present reports to the New Zealand Minister for Public Works.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. W. Burkert
Public Works Department
Wellington
America
Eagland
England
International Roads Congress
Fulkert
Britain
Russia
Belgium
France
Lambton Quay
New Zealand
Queen Street
Auckland
Imperial Motor Transport Congress
Robin
Defence Department
Fone Lewis
Motor Association
Tee ‘Myers
Parkett
Canada
Taranaki
F. Basham
Eltham
Furkert
Atlantic
Pacific Oceans
Europe
Otago
Anama School breaking-up ceremony and district concert
The Anama School held a Tuesday breaking-up ceremony with many parents present. A district concert followed in the school, with Mr Elliott presiding and speakers praising the year’s work. Prizes were awarded, including most popular girl Lily Bennett and most popular boy Jack Beelestone, and refreshments were served.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
K. Elliott
F. Pawgon
D. Pritchett
Miss Burgess
Misses Bennett
Wilsort
A. Allen
Mrs. Bennett
Miss Mair
Brown and Bramley
Dorothy Beckett
J. T. Williams
D. Sewell
Jack Beelestone
St. VE
Lily Bennett
St. V
Allen Elliott
St. FV
Gordon Bennett
St. Tel
Bernard Harrison
Bristol students raid suffragette HQ and wreck pavilion
About a hundred Varsity students stormed the suffragette headquarters on Clifton Road after the Bristol University pavilion burn. They smashed windows and doors, overturned furniture, and set debris alight. Two women in charge fled to a back exit and leapt from a second floor window. both escaped injury. Miss Kenny and Mrs Dove Wilcox are later listed as occupiers facing imprisonment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bristol
Bristol University
Clifton Road
Littl Chhance
Doan's Backache Kidney Pills Sold Worldwide
An advertisement promotes Doan's Backache Kidney Pills as a remedy for kidney pain and related ailments. It includes patient testimonial from Ashburton Hampstead praising relief after five bottles and cites available purchase price and postal order details through Foster-McClellan Co. Sydney.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dean
Hampstead
Ashburton
Doan
Foster-McClellan Clo
Pitt Street
Sydney
Doctrine of Thrift Spreads Through National Education Network
American Society for Thrift, led by S. W. Straus, is building a nationwide campaign to promote thrift via schools, churches, and communities. The group plans to use bulletins, letters, and sermons to teach creative economy, urging federal bonds sales and co operation from farmers, mechanics, and women to foster individual and community thrift.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
S. W. Straus
American Society For Thrift
Thrift
Straus
New York
America
France
Mr Straus
Woman Credits Cough Remedy For Relief From Colds
Mrs Cecilia Coyne of Wellington Street East Perth Western Australia says she suffered with chest colds until she tried Chamberlain's Cough Remedy after several failed treatments. She reports feeling like a new woman after taking two bottles and says she would not be without it. Sold by all dentists and storekeepers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cecilia’ Coyne
Wellington Street
East Perth
W.A
Chamberlain
Ephemeris notes for December days at Babs casino
Ephemeris lists December 27 28 29 30 31 at Babs with figures 4 22 498 0 4 23 4 95 indicating betting or payout data. The fragmentary record notes a sequence of dates and numeric values without clear context or full event description.
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Mellor & CO
Zealandia
Tancred
Bacon
Fletcher Bros
P Timber
Lyndhurst
Methven
Corwar
S. Smith & Co
Timber and Coal Merchants
Wetephone No
Light Railways
Norway
Ardennes
Taumaranui
Yeb
Anama
APPU
Jladies
Ladies’ Home Journal
Mitchell, Ale ‘Maandizg
Ephemeris
Stevens
Ife
THE
Cass and Wills
Led ‘Sutherland
Tom
W. H.’ Alea
Triangle
Post Ofice
Canterbury
P.O
Christchurch
NEW Zealand Insurance Company, Ltd
Remier and 'Wealthiess “Colonial Company
Nicoll Bros
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