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Newspaper
Burrowa News
Location
Burrowa, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Sep 24, 1937
Page
7
Peters' Ice Cream shop serves best and choicest iced fountain drinks and delicious milk shakes. Dale's offers spun silk in white and stripes at 1 shilling per yard.
Hawkesbury Rosehill meeting hosts a seven furlong Quality Handicap with 8.5 maximum weight attracting noted sprinters. Favorites include Gold Red and Talking, with Epsom contenders like Pritthe Prattle and Silver Teo, while Canegrass and Royal Step headline the Highweight divisions. The field features Jack Jamieson’s three year old, Lough Neagh, Foreman, Sir Regent and others in a strong middle distance card.
Telegraph column notes Tom Ellis-Best bets 295 Elizabeth 5st Sydney. Telegrams carry the Best Bets Sydney heading. Readers are invited to send letters to Box 111 GPO Sydney for wagering tips and notes.
In Queanbeyan Mr E J Morrison died when the gun he carried exploded unexpectedly. The blast occurred near the same ground where his brother Patrick Morrison was fatally wounded in 1934 and close to the site where younger brother Frank injured his hand when a rifle exploded while being passed through a fence.
Sydney experts unveil TOM ELLIS BROADCASTS airing on St ton 2UE every Monday and Friday at 7 PM. The program also runs on 7HD Newcastle and on 2GZ Orange 2TM Tamworth every Tuesday and Friday at 7 PM.
One of Yass oldest landmarks and the town’s last prominent business section, Carpenter's Corner, was auctioned on Saturday afternoon but the top bid of £2500 failed to meet the reserve. The property may be sold by private treaty. the final bid came from Mr H L Phillips, proprietor of a local picture show.
The statement attributes to T. J. Collins a definition of a politician as a man who claims to stand for what he thinks the people will fall for. The remark frames political rhetoric as pandering to public opinion.
Burrowa Town Clerk C W Kenny reports on electors and ratepayers rolls closing August 31 and references revision court on September 6. He notes a vacancy for auditor after G Twohill’s death, adverts for applicants, and tender results for pumping machinery. The council discusses the local labor conditions interpretation from the Department of Works and Local Government.
The final notices period for overdue rates and charges has expired. Instructions are requested from the Council on whether to issue summonses to recover. No other matters require mention.
The text lists biliousness symptoms such as bitter mouth, dizziness, furred tongue, variable bowels, and constipation. It attributes disease susceptibility to blocked bile flow and promotes Dr Morse's Indian Root Pills as a remedy for biliousness.
The Hume Electorate Council of the United Country Party has set up an office in Wagga Wagga with Miss J Minogue as secretary and the campaign committee to meet to plan elections on October 23. They will arrange an itinerary for M. H. R. T. J. Collins who will seek re election. East and West gathered at the grave of Choy Shuck Lin a Moree Chinese man aged 80. Chinese lodge members wore ribbons and involved candles crackers at the coffin. Nuts and Chinese food were placed atop the coffin. Some of the deceased’s family were Christians and a Salvation Army officer read a service. An elderly Chinese man handed two pennies to each reader present.
The Koor inga property comprising about 3000 acres freehold with 400 acres lucerne and a fine district homestead is sold by Espha rty Led to Young and Yaes purchasers. Murray Bolger buys 1000 acres adjoining Clover Hill. Gordon Shannon buys the homestead portion for occupancy by the Shannon family early in November.
Len J. Murphy announces he has started a general carrier service in Boorowa with a modern motor truck ready to haul anywhere in the district at any hour. He offers wood in any lengths and can perform top-dressing with a spreading machine. Inquiries invited. phone 93 from Jugiong Street Boorowa.
James Fenning of Lismore will celebrate his 103rd birthday on February 2 next year. The veteran remains vigorous and mentally sharp though his sight is failing. He quit drinking two years ago saying it did him no good.
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