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Newspaper
Colac Herald
Location
Colac, Victoria, Australia
Date
Dec 10, 1915
Page
3
Direct importers present a holiday season sale with Christmas looming on the horizon. Prices undercut city rivals as Lew and distinctive styles showcase summer apparel, aiming to appeal to budget conscious shoppers.
A debris-filled catalog fragment lists apparel items and prices, featuring shirts, dresses, coats, skirts, and accessories. It highlights whites, fancy trims, and new season styles with multiple price points and sizes, reflecting a retail sale page.
The report to the Archbishop notes 114 primary schools in the Melbourne archdiocese with 328 religious, 169 secular, and 53 visiting teachers serving 28 202 pupils. Two training colleges reported seven students. girls high schools reach 29 with 4534 students. Attendance totals over the years reach 2216 in 1811-12 through 31,100 in 1915-14, with religious instruction deemed essential by educators.
A sequence of cottages and houses offered for sale with frontages, depths, street locations and prices. Includes Wellbail Cottage, Kent-Roomed Cottage, New d-Reomed Cottage, Good 6-Mormed Cottage and others with terms like balance payments and low interest. Contact JG Johnstone & Co for particulars.
Mrs Jenkins a Ballarat nurse at 412 Doveton Street North relates her long experience with Dr Morse Indian Root Pill. She claims it aided her health and family and says she has recommended it reliably for fourteen years to Ballarat women seeking cures.
Auction clearing sales conducted in the state covering farming and grazing properties. Weekly sales held in the auction rooms for poultry produce furniture and sundries. Details of livery assistance and crop hay stacks are noted for sale events and securing arrangements.
A fragment lists multiple dwellings for sale with details such as wash-house garden pantry and woodshed. Entries mention street names Ballenk Queen-siren Pyans-street and Loumdd Lath, with prices around £215 to £120 and descriptions of outbuildings and yard areas. Further notices promise more dwellings and particulars of application.
After ten years of local work, the plant in the district has received the latest drilling appliance. The inch bore equipment, specially imported from America, promises improved efficiency and quicker, more accurate output with the new machinery.
A programme of children events for the Jumble Fair afternoon lists 22 activities including a Pennants competition open to all schools. Events cover under 14 and under 12 age groups with races and team relays, with cash prizes for the school achieving the top score.
Friday and Saturday events announce a monster Xmas pull in Alvin with opening Friday evening and continuing Sunday. Local organizers including Mr and Mrs Readly and the shire president will attend. Maud Colne and others plan a program with afteroon tea on Saturday. Proceeds go to the local May district fund.
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