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Newspaper
Colac Herald
Location
Colac, Victoria, Australia
Date
Apr 26, 1911
Page
3
A vintage advertisement invites women to view Miss Robinson from the WB Corsets Company at the Ghowresm fair April sth to April 12. It promises expert corset fitting, large stock, and Moon Blankets at low mill prices, with specific blanket sizes and special prices, plus kapok quilts and linens.
An advertisement promotes Val M. Pearson Watchmaker in Colac featuring a plea for small payments and watches. It also lists numerous property for sale or rent in Miller Street Corangamite Street Queen Street Liger Street Pollock Street Bromfield Street Jenning Street Moore Street Hart Street Wynne Street Barangarook Howitt Street Grant Street Quem Street with prices and building blocks.
Fragmentary sale notes list cotton and fabric items including Mont Millick Cotton, household scissors, paper patterns, fringe nets, fringe nets Uiroc, Tortivhell hair pins and various sizes. Items priced in shillings and pence with multiple quantities and sizes.
An old storefront ad invites customers to Fabarrar and Garrison store on Mulberry Street Culac promising best value money can buy with special blend tea offered at 1/3 per pound and hints customers will return.
A large assortment of ladies' hand bags lined and fitted from 1s 6d upwards plus many other Easter lines. We have just opened a nice variety of Easter Post Cards.
In a Sunday night collision near Mackinnon's bridges, Reynold Tiley driver and four passengers including Laura and Mark Quinn sustained injuries after the Talbot car struck a stone culvert wall. They were cared for by Kyle the stallman then by Henneney's team in Camperdown.
The annual report shows a total LOR membership of 29,000 and funds of £279,000. It notes no propaganda work for temporaries and urges stronger action. St John’s branch sale of gifts raised about £40 with minimal expenses, leaving a substantial distribution fund.
A Victorian style advertisement states headaches are a symptom of other organ issues and promotes Chamberlains Tablets as a reliable liver medicine. It claims the remedy corrects liver action and costs 1/6, sold by Bilson and Co Colac Alvis and Boylan Bros Cororooke.
A long list of incidents including deaths from burns in Railton and Charleville, a seven year old crushed at a Perth goods yard, a man choking at a hotel, and a Tasmanian mine death. Government finance notes show customs and note issues, treasury gold stocks, and inquiries into rail mishaps. Public service appointments, ship’s surgeon role, and political prosecutions are mentioned. Other items cover gifts to missions, fires destroying hay stacks, social event incidents, and typhoid cases in Myrtleford families with hospital placements.
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