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Newspaper
Bowral Free Press
Location
Bowral, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Dec 23, 1905
Page
2
An Australia described meditation on Christmas Day urging readers to move beyond toil and division. The piece invites burying differences, renewing friendship, and sharing goodwill, emphasizing unity, protection, and sacred feelings during the holiday season.
On the occasion of Christmas there will be a holiday observance with full benefits for staff. Advertisers are asked to contribute. A Christmas Number is distributed with this issue to all subscribers, with local notices and a New Year event planned on the old wall.
Christmas holiday train timetables announced for Sydney and intermediate stations with Moss Vale Bowral Mittagong and Goulburn service details. Moss Vale council discusses telephone privacy cattle movement and rail-saleyroad access along Sutton road. Community events notices include auctions balls church services and bids for public works tender listings.
Mr. Vincent presents the fourth annual pupil recital featuring a varied program of vocal and instrumental pieces. Performers include Misses Bold, Binion Upton, Evelyn Losaby, Phillipnamy, Miss Eid Upte, Miss May Raidy, Miss Lallie Macken, Miss Tarone Phi, and others with piano, violin, and voice selections from Mozart, Verdi, and Chaminade.
The W W C A plans a Garden Fete on February 21 at Mrs S Dickenson s Braynds Woodbine garden. The event hinges on favorable weather and generosity. The New Wing Fund receives Christmas gifts including £5 from Lady Fairfax and guineas from Mrs Edwant Jones and Mr James Griffith of Sydney tea merchants.
A Wednesday match at Baviral Wicket saw Mr. Gr. Hy Ruthven's team lose to Mittagong eleven. Mittagong scored 118 while Bowral managed 43. Gillespie took 5 wickets for Mittagong and Paralline also claimed 5. Jones scored 27 for Bowral.
The Kangaloons and Bowral clubs schedule matches around Christmas and Boxing Day. Kangaloons face Bowral on the Bowral wicket this afternoon, with Whatman and team in bowling order. Bowral C C meets Sydney Jimlor on Xmas Day and Boxing Day, with the same squad against Narembana in Sydney.
The article reports a Lodge meeting held on a Thursday evening in 1905, noting membership numbers across several regions and financial figures. It mentions sick pay, funeral expenses, and reserve funds, with totals and allocations for various branches and a diagram illustrating the organization’s structure.
In Onward Trier Missouri the Protestant Alliance quarterly meeting notes the election of officers for the upcoming term. The treasurer and guard roles are filled and accounts show expenses of 9 pounds 90 shillings 26 pence. An installation is planned for the next lodge night in January with Grand Lodge officers expected to preside.
Wilde's Meadow public school held its annual picnic on a Friday. A brief thunderstorm passed, drawing crowds as 32 children performed exercises and wand drills before marching indoors for songs. Rev. D. Smith gave an address and presented each scholar with a bound book funded by local residents and families.
Bowral district agent for a society urges readers to secure a policy before month end to partake in profits for the year. Children may receive a higher payout on the next birthday. Read the advertisement and act now to avoid procrastination.
Boxing Day meeting details list runners and weights for the Kemley Chatmig stow Vale event plus additional divisions including 6 furlongs and 3 mile handicaps. Notable entrants include Toreador, Snowy Plant, Farewell Handicap, and Coraki with various weights and entries across the card.
Fragmented text references stomach and liver afflictions and a tonic or remedy. Mentions Chamberlain and a medical system, with garbled names and phrases suggesting an advertisement or medical notice from a historical issue.
OCR reads like a jumble of church names, addresses, and personal mentions. Scattered entries include Holy Comins, Beta churches, and several individuals such as Lajos Tab and J Roldan amid place names like Holy Comins tet sanday and Me Yuauttowes.
Correspondenen from Mexica lists many individuals including Robertson A and H Sorfety and Wood, Willis, Bean, and others. The text touches on Nixon, Royal Star, and various signatures with limited readable context.
An evening event at Bond of Hope hall featured a choir and speakers. Eloquent remarks urged temperance and health, praising Kir Brodrick Troeas and Christinas Carole as pivotal to the gathering’s message.
A note about Miss Kate Maddern daughter of Rev M Maddern of Rockdile Methodist Church being presented with a silver medal by a local choir. The ceremony followed a farewell or appreciation gesture from choir members acknowledging her faithful service and cheerful demeanor.
Parish officials announce completion of interior adornments at St Jude's Church Bowral despite paint issues delaying planned Christmas decoration. Churchwardens decide this year’s ordinary Christmas display will be foregone.
A fragmentary item describes a lone effort by Captain Campbell and Mose Vale at Mittagong. The piece notes bold conduct and a brave, steady display with praise for good words by an unnamed ally. The OCR yields unclear names and places.
Auctioneers Mersie Goodlallow and Co report weekly sale results at Bowral showing prices for fruit vegetables and livestock. Items include apples pears apricots cabbage peas and ponies with various shillings and pence figures. a rent fee of £10 is noted and a light is mentioned. The update closes with remarks attributed to Morgen Camerat.
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