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Newspaper
Bacchus Marsh Express
Location
Bacchus Marsh, Victoria, Australia
Date
Jan 16, 1869
Page
4
A fragmentary verse piece by Queenoferry contemplates waves and land and inner thoughts. The speaker imagines soft thoughts surfacing amid turbulent currents and moral aims, urging courage, faith, and hope for noble lives and law.
A Glasgow observer visits a New York prayer gathering, detailing bell ringing, crowded halls, and fervent exhortations. He notes young speakers, zealous youths, and a veteran speaker recalling Scotland, with vivid contrasts to Glasgow church practices.
In a damaged fragment from Glasgow Christine News the author recalls a day at Plymouth Church Brooklyn with General Grant seen among the gallery crowd. Vivid imagery of flowers and butterflies fills the scene as the author contemplates wartime leaders and memory in the church.
LL GOODS consigned for sale will meet careful attention and be sold at highest current bids. If a reserve cannot be obtained the goods will be held for instructions and consignors advised. Liberal cash advances on all goods in store.
The fragmentary text notes an event or items named Lowlon and Hanae with the phrase received by every wily, hinting at a distribution or acknowledgment. No clear date, place, or organization is readable, leaving the core fact as an unspecified reception tied to two named entities.
An advertisement extols Dr D. Inyne and Son's Expectorant as a universal cure for coughs colds and chest diseases. It claims quick relief for pleuritic pains whooping cough and asthma and asserts its superiority for consumption while naming Mogara W Ford Co and Jayne's Medical Almanac as sources. It urges ministers teachers and singers to use it for voice strength.
An old advertisement extols Jayne's Sanative Pills as superior and safe for many ailments. It claims benefits for dyspepsia, liver and kidney issues, nervous disorders, skin disease, and female ailments, urging use with tonic vermifuge and laxatives for chronic conditions. The text notes easy digestion, no special diet, and broad availability from chemists.
An old time ad touts Jaynes Carminative Balsam as a safe effective cure for dysentery diarrhea cholera infantum colic griping pains indigestion and nervous disorders. It claims thousands of certificates from physicians clergymen and families and lists sale by druggists and storekeepers.
An old external application marketed to treat sprains bruises sore throat rheumatism gout and numerous pains in joints limbs and muscles. The ad lists many ailments and suggests use with other remedies, describing effects on nerves milk leg chilblains frost bites and chest or back pains.
An 19th century ad touts Dr Jays Alterative as a universal remedy that supposedly enters the bloodstream to treat many diseases including goitre cancer rheumatism and epilepsy while promising easy digestion and nervous relief. It lists William Ford & Co as wholesale agents at 67 Swanton Street Melbourne.
A garbled OCR fragment mentions Agent Tor Bacchus Marsh Mu Tl Pearce and Sronexegren, leaving uncertain context but indicating a character or code names in a possibly fictional or administrative entry. The readable bits suggest a list or tag style entry rather than a full article.
Terms stated for dry mares and groom's fees, with payment due at first service. Stallions to be kept in well grassed paddocks with ample water. A challenge is issued to exhibit any yearlings sired by any draught stallion in the district against those sired by Champion. Signed by A. and L. Grant for the Hacohue Marsh Ballan Tugliston show on October 10, 1808.
Local memorandum style postal schedule lists daily mail departures from Melbourne to Bacchus Marsh Melton Koilor Road Pentland Hills and others with varied times. Entries include Buninyong Mount Egerton Gordons Ballarat and several stations with arrival times in Melbourne and outbound close times.
A list of regular meetings for courts, boards, and institutes around Bacchus Marsh Melton Ballan Gisborne and surrounding towns. Details include meeting days at courthouses, secretaries and engineers, with dates such as next meeting January 16 and alternate day schedules for various district bodies and lodges.
The Bacchus Murah Express lists subscription prices: sixpence for single copies, four shillings sixpence quarterly in advance, five shillings on credit, six shillings by post. Advertising rates: one inch and under 2s 6d, each additional inch 2d, double column half again, notices of births marriages or deaths 1s each. Agents listed in Melbourne and nearby towns. Printed at Moore Street office, Bacchus Marsh, Victoria.
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