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Newspaper
Colac Herald
Location
Colac, Victoria, Australia
Date
Dec 07, 1917
Page
4
Local ad lists Dooty Lot Autograph Stationery and greeting cards for ladies and gentlemen. Items include wallets, hat pins, watches with wrist straps, vases, pepper shakers, and novelty tokens with prices in shillings. Aims to attract buyers with assorted gift items and decorative pieces.
Restores run down constitutions and aids digestion in hot weather. Described as a tonic and body builder that strengthens the nerves and builds up the system. Promoted for adults as a preventive against attacks and a quick health revival. Price per bottle referenced.
In a commercial sale at Cavtle-i5e yarded through the week, prices for all descriptions rose slightly with general firmness. Prime cows reached £17 10s and £22. calves to £14. sheep averaged a slight dip from the previous week, with prime crossbred wethers to 34s and ewes to 45s 9d, lambs around 21s to 28s for best trade quality.
Renter’s correspondent from the Brit obo headquarters describes German efforts near Cambrai with La Vacquene and Bourlon Wood key during the battle. Weather favored artillery and rifle fire as divisions attacked, but Allied counterattacks halted German gains while cattle market quotes show varied prices and yarding events.
The program lists handicapped distance and chopping events with cash prizes for first and second places. Entries for the Sheaf Tossing and Nine Sundry Events are due by Wednesday December 11 and must be in the secretary’s hands. Courtly water provided for pain relief at the venue.
Quinton business listing for GEO. GALLOP & CO. offering repos by homes work and fair, with Western Coach Works near Railway Station Osiga. Chaff sts Bron Pollard Barley and others provide small and large orders, promptness and despatch emphasized.
A fragment from France by Lieut Allen urges Australian women to vote Yes for reinforcements and righteous war effort. The letter condemns disloyalty and cowardice, urging women to back the war and prevent soldiers from returning wounded and under-supported. The message argues Yes will sustain Australians in battle and uphold heroism.
A fragmented dispatch describes gunners adapting to scarce crews as artillery remains active in Arey. Report notes gunners sleep in dugouts while guns thunder every minute and crews cope with limited sight and harsh conditions.
An aged tale from a prison camp describes a nightly unseen visitor frightening guards. A catlike specter with a red dewlap drips chills through the camp, later revealed as a cunning raccoon by Hamburg’s Harentach, hidden with bones and tools in a ceiling crevice.
An injured British soldier, paralyzed from the waist down, battles a Swiss chalet escape. He leans on a wheeled chair, rides it down a slope, loses balance after a stone dislodges the wheel, and climbs back over a wall with help from onlookers.
The piece notes German efforts to test naval tactics using steamers emitting heavy vapour in calm conditions. It explains how wind absence makes the vapour spread, resembling a beacon or curtain over the sea and suggests implications for future naval engagements. A brief promotion mentions a Special offering of new Brissom solderien and handkerchiefs by Bilew's.
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