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Newspaper
Benalla Standard
Location
Benalla, Victoria, Australia
Date
Jul 20, 1906
Page
3
Special notice from SOL SOL. GREEN touts as the world’s greatest doubles bettor. It urges money wiring with unclear terms and vouchers, warns no reply, and mentions forwarding late applications. The text is garbled, but centers on wagering, payment steps, and an urgent official-like notice.
In the £100 pigeon handicap at North Brighton Beiday, Tocalahota team Carey and Butealty led the earlier rounds. Nine shooters remained into the twelfth round, each winning £4. on the next round five missed, including Buta-fly, who marked with harmers down. Carey and partner earned £36 across two days, totaling £13 13 for the pair.
An irregular report covers races and shooting at various venues. Mentions Major Taylor and Vida Goldstein among others, with sporadic results, placings, and notes on officials, resales, and club activities across meetings and rounds.
The St Leger under Benalla Sumpton Conte ing Club will hold a dog stakes on Wednesday with three heats including St Laeger Mokown and Allayed. Entries already received, expect heats and stakes about £11. Notes on Deveniah Coursing Club season opener with 40 aged stake and 17 nominations amid local football chatter.
An old advertisement touts Dr Sheldon s New Discovery as a universal remedy for coughs colds and consumption claiming rapid relief and safety for children It lists multiple products and prices and mentions shops including Miller Co and others with various patent cure references.
Thoms Jackson, engaged on relief works at Rushworth, faced charged theft of a Moorcoaly containing letters from Mr. Myfas Cinater of Mooreopna. He was sentenced to one month with hard labour. Reports detail additional local incidents including irrigation revenue, a shooting accident at Kishworth, and various community notices across Moyhu Yarrawonga Wangaratta and Violetown.
A Tuesday market report notes a large cattle yarding with good quality across classes. Buyers from Riverina, Burton, Yoru Wahka, Wangaratta and other districts purchased bullocks, cows, springers and calves at prices from £0.26 to £7.26 per head and higher, with springers in demand and total clearance achieved.
M M Namara reports fortnightly scale held at corporation yards on Tuesday. Yardings include cattle and sheep with prices listed for fat cows, springers, heifers, yearlings, wethers and ewes. Special sale at Benalla yards was postponed due to weather and stalled stock, with 2896 sheep yarded chiefly ewes and lambs. buyers limited by conditions.
A fragmentary ad claims a range of tonics and cures from a pharmacy. It references Chamberlains Gough Remety and a promise to relieve pain and illness, with various nonsensical phrases about remedies, youth health, and stubborn conditions. The language is garbled but centers on medicinal products and questionable guarantees.
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