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Newspaper
Colac Herald
Location
Colac, Victoria, Australia
Date
Jan 06, 1915
Page
3
The piece describes women’s summer attire with lace and satin details, detachable bustles, petticoats, and contrasting frock fabrics. It includes home craft notes for frosting glass, lavender salts, wallpaper care, and simple party cake ideas with a hidden toy-filled centerpiece cake.
An old classified style listing describes Snow White calico nightdresses with tucked fronts and frills, two finely woven calico chemises with full frills, two pairs calico knickers with self frills, two camisoles of good cut with full frills, priced 12 shillings or 0 pence paid.
Pleat has been equipped with the latest drilling blocks and caterers at Gellidrand Street Colac. Balls and parties catered for on fortest notices.
The event featured a one mile and three quarters trot won by W A Kennedy's Pilot with Finlayson’s Starlight second and Hurst's bay pony third. In the Welter Handicap 5 furlongs Emulet led, Larrakal second, Brakespeare third. The back race crowned Inquisitive as winner while Gilet Brand and Petrol took pony and horse jumps respectively.
At a Colac Turf Club meeting held Monday afternoon committee members including J Hancock G H Hills and J Talbot considered rail carriage for horses to the Boxing Day meeting in light of railway restrictions from Warrnambool to Camperdown. They approved special westward trains and ticketing moves, and decided no refunds for owners whose horses could not travel if they did not race that day. Receipts totalled £905 Va with profit £565 12 10. summer meeting plans dropped the steeplechase for a Ladies Bracelet race. Special trains to be arranged and timekeeper Mr Carew to be appointed.
Messrs Dalgety and Co report brisk market for prime and good quality pigs at the new year sale. Top price reached a pen of five extra prime pigs at 9 marks, others from 46 to 876. Light baconers and store pigs showed less gain with prices from 50 to 55 for topping lots. Next sale is Monday 18 January at 1.30 p.m.
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