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Newspaper
Colac Herald
Location
Colac, Victoria, Australia
Date
Mar 20, 1916
Page
1
Fragmentary OCR lists agents, firms, and places including Mercantile Insurance, Hidd Dairy Machinery, Forbes Street London, Adelaide, Naples, Marseilles, and Guammauiden Assistant, with scattered terms such as midwife and forged items. The text appears as an archival catalog of entities and locales without cohesive narrative.
Height of ponies for event and entry fees noted. Certificates of height from Bendail Marcy and Watson may be accepted. Trot and mares race summaries require three best performances. maidens to provide prior form. Train times show Melbourne to Colac and Warrnambool connections with specific departure and arrival times. Forms obtainable from Jas Threlfall.
J P Murnane advertises tractors plows harvesters threshers drills binders wagons and related implements. It promotes Zelander machines Lip beparstore trung and economical separator models. The note mentions insurance options and a Colac address for Newt Thomas & Joyen.
A garbled line promises an extremely easy task and hints at forthcoming proof to judge by. The fragment references no clear persons, places, or organizations.
Fragmentary text describes a local event at Colac with names Powell McDougall and references to a support act. Details are incomplete and unclear about dates or outcomes.
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