Red Gum Tips A Fine Substitute For Tobacco
A Melbourne Herald essay extols Australian bush substitutes for tobacco including wild musk leaves from Pambula used by miners during floods, porous honeysuckle or banksia stems as makeshift cigars, candlebark bark, stringybark, and native tobacco plants. It notes red gum tips as decoration also serving as tobacco substitute, despite earlier attempts to commercialize gum leaf cigarettes.
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Fuereka
Melbourne
Herald
Pambula
Buehmen
Sundowners
Asher
Riverina
Electric Torches at Dimmock’s Pharmacy
Dimmock's Pharmacy advertises a good assortment of electric torches available from January 9 and onward, highlighting a selection for customers seeking reliable lighting options.
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Dimmock
Bereavement in Crookwell After Sorrowful Loss
Mr and Mrs Sam Croker junior mourn the death of their three weeks old son at Crookwell Hospital from double pneumonia. A recent benefit dance for Millie Gay's Hospital Queen Campaign drew attendees from Crookwell Narrawa Reid's Flat Rye Park Frogmore and Boorowa with the Melody Masters orchestra from Harden providing music.
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Sam Croker
Crookwell Hospital
Millie Gay
Crookwell
Narrawa
Reid's Flat
Rye Park
Frogmore
Boorowa
Melody Masters
Iarden
Church Services Across Denominational Gatherings
Religious notices list Methodist Catholic and Anglican services for Boorowa Rye Park Rugby Tangmangaroo and surrounding areas on July 14 and July 21 with times led by Rev G A Little P P E Sheehan HCL and H Brown including evening and family services and rites at St John’s Murcingo Tangmangaroo and Boorowa parish churches.
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Boorowa
Frogmore
Kenya
Godfrey’s Creek
G. A. Little
Rye Park
C. Veness
St. John's
Murcingo
H. 0. Peatt
Luncheon Service Introduced on Sydney Wagga Day Train
The Sydney to Melbourne limited express will start on Sunday July 14 with a later Central Station departure. The Deputy Commissioner for Railway ordered a luncheon service en route on the Sydney Wagga train. The 01:25 am train from Control Station will run nonstop to Goulburn. dining car attached, luncheon from 1 pm for 2 shillings. The car returns to Sydney next morning for breakfast on the Melbourne Sydney limited express.
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Central Station
Control
Goylburn
Goulburn
Sydney
Women In East Show Workload Of Women In Asia
Former Health Minister J J G McGirr spoke on his Nieuw Zeeland voyage of seeing Chinese and Japanese women pulling heavy carts and bearing loads. He criticized Japan’s progress as slow and noted very low standards among East workers, contrasting with Britain. The observation highlights harsh labor conditions in the East.
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East
J. J. G. McGirr
Nieuw
China
Japan
Australia
Britain
Leave the Money in Your Town Tailoring Ad
A local tailoring ad urges customers to have suits made in town by Mo. It touts first class tailoring and 10 factory made options, encouraging customers to avoid sending orders elsewhere and to support local services.
Death Notice and Local Sales In Boorowa Area
Local and general notices report the death of Mrs. Glass formerly Miss Liddie Randall of Paddington, leaving a husband and six children after a three year paralysis. The page also advertises Learmont’s clearance sale with half price items, film notes for Treasure Island at Empire Theatre Boorowa, and various local incidents and products including bicycles, ammunition, and household goods.
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Glass
Paddington
Liddie Randall
Arthur Randall
Boorowa
Mercery
Learmont's
Wallace Beery
Jackie Cooper
Empire Theatre
Boor
Own Tomorrow Night
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Learmonts
Moon
Manchester
Learmont & Co
E. Sheehan, P.P
Church OF England
John's & A.m
H.C
Rye Park Uf Am
HUCL
D. Frog
Brown
Rector
Presbyterian Church
G. Nelson-Bensley
Sydney-Wagga
Atlantic Union
Treasure Island
Empire Pictures
Speedwell Bicycles
Learmont’s
British War Department
Air Ministry
Lear- Thont's
Ana
the Empire
R. Wilding
Ogden
Capetown
Herlei
Ixzard
Berrima
Coonamble
Learmont
Glen Innes
Henry Richard Crossman
Learments
Sam Munro
Queen Streets
Canberra
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