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Newspaper
Benalla Standard
Location
Benalla, Victoria, Australia
Date
Oct 16, 1925
Page
7
Condanser introduces a Benalla wireless column inviting inquiries on telegraphy and telephony. The piece promotes forming a Wireless Club, outlines tuning and earth wire setups, urges safe practice, and invites reader questions to be answered weekly.
A historical list of items for sale at Ervan Camp Store in Benalla West includes clothing, drapery, shoes, and ribbons as well as farm supplies like maize, peas, wheat, chaff, bran, and pollard. Additional offerings cover hardware, seeds, fruit trees, wool, watches, oils, paints, seeds, and household goods.
Distinctly heard remarks describe the daylit debut of JLO in a theatrical setting. The report notes it as the first daylight performance and expresses hope for future daytime shows despite unspecified atmospheric troubles.
Forty years ago the Benalla Shire Council meets with Drs. MHean and colleagues, votes £25 to Benalla Meditates Institute funds, and discusses courthouse needs. The Benalla Horticultural Society names judges for the flower show while a requisition spurs a public meeting. Plans touch Plains homestead property purchase by Charles Watt and tomorrow’s cricket match between Benalla Cal and Wanderers.
An advertisement for J Lew Kee, a Chinese herbal specialist in Carlton Melbourne, offering cures for asthma dropsy fits rupture tumor eczema and more. Consultation at Broken River Hotel once a month with the next visit scheduled Friday 16th Oct from 10 am to 6 pm.
A writer urges country town business and professional people to adopt genuine self-help, condemning passive apathy and urging cooperative effort. The piece questions who will lead, calling for united town committees to drive sensible development and resist centralized city influence.
A nostalgic piece traces the Sydney express era noting J Corrigan as longtime conductor and detailing historic practices. It recalls pre dawn arrivals at Albury, breakfast stoppages, changing carriages, and evolving dining services as trains linked New South Wales and Victoria passengers and parliament members.
In Benalla Mrs M Pete Tomkins testifies kidney trouble caused pain and disruption but after using Doan's Backache Kidney Pills she reports full recovery after three bottles. Ten years on another witness Mrs Grove confirms permanent cure and absence of symptoms. Pills priced 2/9 sold by Foster-McClellan Co. Sydney.
Nigntonial Bay Biexecutors Agency Company Australasia Limited lists Melbourne office at 113 Queen Street. It states maximum commission on estate capital value is 24 percent. Directors include Kalwood Winagerald Hay Henry Madden and others. The firm acts as executor joint executor trustee administrator and agent under power of attorney.
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