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Newspaper
Colac Herald
Location
Colac, Victoria, Australia
Date
Jan 13, 1915
Page
1
The advertisement asserts Abotomey offers the latest eyewear and optical mounts. It claims customers cannot find better prices or quality anywhere in the Commonwealth and boasts thousands of testimonials supporting their products.
Ad copy promises latest wide erd ties in peplina and pla an' famey eilke. Claims import origin and big parcel opening with price stated as 1/6 each.
Fragmentary OCR mentions music teaching topics including piano, harmony, and theory. References appear to include colleges or instructors in Moon, Lodo, and Victoria Hall with weeks and certificates tied to practical and theoretical music instruction.
Real estate notes describe multiple cottages for sale with locations on Hesse Street Calvert Street and Dennis Street. Properties include three to five room cottages with features such as verandahs baths and frontages priced from £450 to £520 and land plots around 65 by 165 feet. Listings emphasize central locations and proximity to streets and markets.
Local advert lists Mulder 4 Co on Brompfeld Street as agents for Paige Morris Oxford Light Car. Includes Crambler motor lorries Falkner electric cutters and Austral milking machines globe separators with prompt repair and telephone number 47.
MANNERS SUTTION ST Colac. MR TAYLOR offers motor and general engineering services with plant and tools for bensine motors gas engines boilers separators and overhauls. Call 164 to arrange work at shop or home under supervision and deliveries of oils tyres and accessories. Tobacco and haberdashery shop offers pipes cigars cigarettes and shaving requisites with window display and mail orders accepted.
Colac Aerated Water and Cordial Manufacturing announces products including Lime Juice Champagne Byphops Lemonade Ginger Champagar and Vinegar. The notice mentions delivery to any part and promotes various beverages and extracts offered by the firm.
An auction sale led by Connor the auctioneer progresses through furniture and fowls as part of regular estate sales. The listing notes location on Manners Sutton Street and involvement of United Insurance Co with a sale of diverse items including sheep dip and potato diggings.
The page lists train departures and arrivals between Melbourne and towns including Geelong Warrnambool Port Fairy and Birregurra with irregular schedules. It notes possible alterations or cancellations and details several station stops and service days with varying times.
Timetable reads departures and arrivals with notes on daily 1.20 p.m. start and 8.40 p.m. arrival, 3.6 p.m. stop at Birre, and a Lorne change at Koacs Marsh. The coach runs 11.40 a.m. depart and returns from Lorne at 10 a.m. on most days with 11 a.m. Mondays and Saturdays.
Geelong departure at 6.50 a.m. with a sequence of stops including Murgheraggaie Inver Jha Inged Cressyll Strathvean IL Derri nallam Vito Vite Pura Pura Nerrin Nerrin Westmere Miminera Taty con and final arrival at Maroona at 2.10 p.m.
A fragment records a train leaving Soe at 3 p.m. with later times around 8.3 p.m. and mentions places or signals unclear. The text is garbled but indicates a timetable style entry with multiple timestamps.
The fragment lists times for Irrewarra 10.45 am and Oudit 11.6, Beme 11.36, arriving Colac 12.80 pm with a note about a tain/leaving context. Data appears incomplete and lacks full routing or service details.
A partial OCR read describes a low train event at 7.90 am with unclear details about a potential bowing or breach incident and mentions derailed or offset comments on offers.
A timetable snippet shows trains from Ballarat to Cressy leaving Mondays and Wednesdays at 5.35 p.m and arriving 6.4, with a Saturday service leaving Ballarat at 6.14 p.m arriving at Cressy at 8.44 p.m.
The readable fragments reference names and places such as Orient Lane Ore and Murray Street in a garbled note. The piece appears to discuss steamers, fever, workmen, and a paid passage but lacks coherent events or clear entities to report as a complete news item.
An ad describes Maler’s Vioko Etrage Gremsphoges-teeophones and Beers Pheen machines as best suited for work. It promises cheaper rates, offers to stock and tailor orders, and mentions Master’s Voice phonographs and pocket lamp devices with improved dry cell batteries. The dealers at Fauls Manners Sutton Street advertise ready stock and delivery.
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