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Newspaper
Colac Herald
Location
Colac, Victoria, Australia
Date
May 29, 1908
Page
2
Bilson & Co announces a broad sale of new fabrics and household textiles direct from home markets. The display highlights lean lingerie cloths, heavy-faced cloths, plain coats, all-wool fabrics, and special black goods. It also features children’s wear, blankets, quilts, and down quilts with value pricing and a fresh stock of Colonial manufactured goods.
A fragmented ad describes winter garments including Norfolk suits and gentleman countercoats. It lists items such as top coats, gowns, and accessories with prices and stock details like J Hamp hone and 74 fil 378 Gul, urging readers to buy style at favorable prices.
A cluttered catalog lists waterproof boots including men and ladies styles such as Kip Wartright and Canuck models, with features like double tongues and leather uppers. It also promotes new furniture sets, bedstands, and sewing machines, touting low prices and durability.
An extended, garbled advertisement-like passage extols Frootoids and Fretoida as curing digestive and bilious ailments. It asserts rapid relief from constipation headaches and general ill health, claims extensive tests prove effectiveness, and cites testimonials and a list of sources and distributors.
Fragmentary OCR text shows garbled phrases and disjointed terms. Readable names and places are sparse, with no coherent event, date, or clear actions to summarize into a factual news item.
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