This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 5 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Colac Herald
Location
Colac, Victoria, Australia
Date
Apr 07, 1915
Page
3
The Liberty Scrap Book Competition invites entries from Colac Herald area youths within 30 miles, using Liberty Photo ads as pages. Prizes awarded by Liberty judge. entrants must cut daily ads and photos, assemble on scrapbook pages, and remain within contest rules.
The updated timetable lists trains from Western District centres to Melbourne with alterations and cancellations published at stations. Melbourne to Port Fairy departures, connections at Warrnambool Terang Camperdown Colac Geelong and Warrnambool, and special notes on Birregurra Deans Marsh and Forrest services with coach links to Hares Munga Apollo Bay.
A dated timetable lists daily and weekly train departures from Birregurra and Colac, with stops at Deans Marsh, Lorne, Cressey, Ballarat, and other stations. It details departures at 1.20 pm, 11.40 am Mondays and Saturdays, and evening arrivals, noting omnidirectional routes and special day patterns amid inconsistent spellings.
A train leaves Creasy daily at 7.50 am arriving at Heese Irrewarra at 8.57 am and Colo at 8.49 am. On Tuesdays Thursdays and Saturdays a train leaves Jessy at 3.15 pm arriving at Reese at 4.08 pm and Colo at 4. The text lists multiple station names and times with some OCR errors.
Ballarat to Geelong train times appear unclear with departures listed around 11.31 pm and 5.35 pm on specific weekdays. Saturday service shows a 6.14 pm departure arriving at 6.44 pm to Cressy with partial times for other legs.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.