Untitled fragment about friends and purchases
Fragmentary text mentions friends and buying hay with unclear meaning. No concrete events, people, or organizations are identifiable.
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Newspaper
Bowral Free Press
Location
Bowral, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Oct 28, 1903
Page
2
Fragmentary text mentions friends and buying hay with unclear meaning. No concrete events, people, or organizations are identifiable.
The notice outlines a spring goods sale with emphasis on lower prices, larger range, and better value. It contrasts with hawkers, notes rising expenses, and invites customers to buy for resale. Other items mention a pope bidding farewell to Cardinal Moran and various global/news items, including farming updates and regional incidents.
The Bowral district reports bountiful rains and a busy week with a concert and tea at St Jude’s Church, a railway timetable change affecting Bundanoon and Mittagong, a wedding at Bundanoon Methodist Church, and plans for the Bowral Tourist Association meetings. Also noted are property auctions, cricket union train timing, and local church ceremonies.
A fragment discusses a medical review and public overhauls of products like a tonics extract claimed to ease coughs fevers sprains wounds and dental decay. It references physicians and a medical board, noting supposed universal healing properties and a dosage instruction.
Trustees plan a union competition affecting Bowral services with the Methodist church moving operations to Bendooley Street next Sunday. Electoral rights for New South Wales women are being distributed by police, home visits arranged by Senior Constable Frealand. Robertson hosts matches where the local team defeats Kangaloong. Mittagong and Bowral orchestral society form to broaden music education and charity efforts with officers elected and committees formed.
Seven hundred Doweites returned to Zion City Illinois after the failed mission to convert New York with many checks sent to Rev J A Dowie proving invalid. Mrs Dowie and her son plan to travel to Bog land then Australia to start a Zionist movement there. Dowie will depart for Australia in January. The New York Herald hints at relocation with a forward looking view. A New Idea for October reports radium experiments by a Vienna Medical Society showing radium light destroying cancer in two cases and shrinking tumors in twenty others.
Competitions split into two stations suburban tour and country. Winners include igham 1 chalawood 9 bookwood 9 in coassful division. Country stations led by Nowra 1 Thirlmore 2 Valley Faulconbridge equal 8. Judges Mortimer and Baermen noted few entries and staff enthusiasm varied. Dowzal station omitted. Neat but with scope for improvement, Brom Press emphasizes ongoing attention from officials.
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