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Newspaper
Burrowa News
Location
Burrowa, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Jan 10, 1936
Page
5
In court the defendant protests I just carried it home for a joke claiming no theft. He is sentenced for carrying the joke too far as lists of gents and ladies appear alongside product ads for Atlantic Power Kerosene and Hudson-Terraplane tractor lines.
Frogmore posted 200 for Rugby to chase with Gibbons taking six wickets for 58. Rugby, after a strong start led by W Gibbons and H Gorham, fell four runs short as the last pair failed to reach the target with three wickets in hand.
Local notes report Sister Hore fracturing her ankle at Manly Hospital after a fall. Learmont's Stocktaking Sale offers drastic reductions on Frocks, Hats, and remnants at half price. Landowner Walter Merriman harvests record hay tonnage and plans threshing. Betty Gibson visits Boorowa for Christmas with Allen Hancock. Vivian Grey hosts entertainments with the Choral Society and Presbyterian groups. Jack Grey leaves scouting post. Ball to take Orange branch, Wright Heaton Co. manager shifts. Kerry expands bakery holdings to Young. Engagement announced for Jessie Jeffrey to Fred Gilmore McDonald. Special sale table features Ladies Shoes 4/10.
Readable figures show mileage and costs for 17 miles 68 chains with opening date February 12 1916. Totals include traffic hands journeys passenger earnings goods and live stock traffic across Boorowa Galong Binalong Cunningar and Bowning areas with yearly changes and per mile costs.
Sister Leake returns from operation in Boorown and heads to Sydney for two months. Local shop Learmonts advertises drastic reductions on ladies garments and crockery while noting visitors from Holy Cross College Ryde. A tree limb shatters a truck windscreen near local resident W Cranston and Mrs. R Harding stays in hospital. Police sergeant K C Southwell advances in rank. A Health Week poem extols fitness and balance. Promotional lines urge readers to visit Learmonts for vacola outfits and other stock, plus Atlantic Petrol pump offering.
An advertised Mirpil Skin Balm claims to soothe rough and chapped skin. It promotes use after shaving and for windburn sunburn chilblains and chafed skin and as a base for powder. It suggests the product relieves complaints related to housework.
An ad promotes Speedwell Cycles of Learmonts with terms described as easy. It touts using Atlantic Ethyl spirits to stay in high spirits and improve riding mood.
Mr Rankin and Mr Otton visited Boorowa to review the Board of Directors plan for a nearly new hospital. They endorsed the concept and suggested enlarging some rooms, with a later decision on possible erection assistance. The Directors held a special meeting to adopt the plan and consider funding.
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