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Newspaper
Colac Herald
Location
Colac, Victoria, Australia
Date
May 22, 1908
Page
1
An overstock clearance offers cash purchases on ladies jackets Mattes cloaks maids and girls ulsters and warm wraps. Manufacturers seek quick sales of new season lines with big savings across items including woolens and fur accessories.
Church notices list services for next Sunday including Holy Communion and Litany songs. Names mentioned include Revd. X phillipe and Phillipe Salocow with times like 2 pm and 7 pm, plus references to various hymns and gospel readings.
A garbled OCR passage references registration in Victoria, workers wages, and political notes touching on clerk duties, government roles, and regulatory debates. It mentions the tension between labor costs and reform, with scattered names and places obscured by transcription errors.
A severely corrupted OCR passage from STONYFORD area contains scattered fragments about people, places, and events. The text is unreadable in large parts, with only partial names and terms discernible, lacking coherent sentences or a clear event.
Unclear OCR text describes an incident aboard the steamer Orion. The garbled lines reference a collision or incident near a station or harbor with mentions of names and places, but the exact event, date, and details are unreadable.
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