State Clothing Factory Faces Worker Shortage and Delays
W J Fallon manager of the State Clothing Factory at Miller's Point warns that contracts for police railway and tramway uniforms are behind due to a labor shortage. The plant employs 150, needs 40 more girls for machinists and finishers while wages and night shifts are used to avert penalties. Over 40,000 garments produced annually, with overtime payments rising as output lags.
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J. Durack
Tailors’ Union
W. J. Fallon
Gloucester Street
Miller's Point
Fallon
Honda
Girle
Falloo
Talking pictures loom big in Edison plans
The article reports on Thomas A Edison’s kinetophone demo at West Orange Laboratories where a motion picture figure spoke in sync with actions. Edison predicts operas in hamlets, actors in new roles, and Roosevelt in prairie cabinas, though practical buyers remain cautious awaiting real results.
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Thomas A. Edison
Weat Orange Laboratories
Metropolitan Grand Opera
Ilinois
Mr. Edison
John
Woods Great Cure Modes Strand Colds Never Tala
A fragmented OCR line references Woods Great Cure aimed at colds and strands, noting claimed remedies and timing. Limited readable text suggests a health remedy claim without clear efficacy or context.
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Woods
Inter-District Summary of NSW News and Events
Parkes Shire Council moves to ban owning stock from mid October to late February to prevent bushfires. Grafton Lathers raise shoeing costs amid wages board awards. Violet King wins £50 for best lady rider at Sku thorpe’s buckjumping show in Sydney. Richmond River haul nets 225 fish in under four hours, some weighing up to 15 pounds. Two bullocks locked together at Homebush yard. one horn must be sawed off to separate. From April 10 to 21, 73 cattle found infested with ticks at Norwillumbah across scattered districts. Nitre Lake near Wilcannia now carries up to a sheet of water 10 feet deep after recent rains, not filled since 1885. Cobargo A P and H Society show prize debate ends with 10–5 vote against parading winners. Tamworth syndicate secures exclusive rights to 15,000 forest acres at Warrowitch. timber valued at about £69,000,000. Molong poultry owners report fatal grasshopper overdoses in hens. Bees swarm at R Croft’s Port Campbell sale, delaying progress as cattle herd drives them off. A western farmer ships 500 wethers and lambs to London. returns 2s 6d per head higher than Sydney market. Union activity reaches Canberra with road workers forming a branch. F C Iin visits Queanbeyan to assist. Wagga Police Court convicts Herbert Nixon of adulterated milk sales. defence argues milk came from a single cow per a special order and customer risk. case dismissed.
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Parkes
Wages Board
Grafton
Violet King
Tavern
Skuthorpe
Sydney
Richmond
Homebush Ealeyarde
Norwillumbah
Ty In
Nitre Lake
Wilcannia
Tam
Cobargo A. P
H. Boviety
Glock
Tamworth
Warrowitch
Molong
Wood's Peppermint Cure Song Never Fades From Memory
A historic jingle extols a peppermint cure for coughs colds and chest complaints. The advertising verse promotes Woods Great Peppermint Cory as a grand remedy, urging readers to buy a bottle and sing along.
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Wooda
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