Billow & Co The Empire Corsets Hielon Colts
Billow and Company advertise the Empire corsets in a local trade notice. The item list includes sizes and prices for women’s undergarments, with emphasis on fit and durability within the season’s fashion.
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Newspaper
Colac Herald
Location
Colac, Victoria, Australia
Date
Nov 06, 1907
Page
1
Billow and Company advertise the Empire corsets in a local trade notice. The item list includes sizes and prices for women’s undergarments, with emphasis on fit and durability within the season’s fashion.
A catalog from a late era shop touts choice dress materials and exclusive dress goods. It promises good quality and famous low prices, listing per yard prices for voiles, crepes, silks, corduroy, and serges, plus juvenile suits and new stock of various fabrics and outfits. The ad emphasizes fast colors, fit and style guarantees, and a large selection at the best value.
The document details a wide array of community activities including church notices, literary guild closings, Sunday school reports, meetings of the Anglesan group, library and book drives, and preparations for autumn lectures. It mentions Foundation Day celebrations, a Sunday school conference, and a magazine note on Windsor Windsor. It also references school meetings, teacher reports, and civic notices with multiple named individuals and organizations involved.
The Melbourne wool sales feature reports by Dalgety and Co and notes on varied lot valuations and buyer responses. The text also details widespread rainfall across Victoria and New South Wales regions, listing towns and rainfall amounts, with notes on potential benefits to wool production and futures.
Footwear advertisement promotes Telson's Giant boots and shoes in men women and children sizes. Highlights include children's tan button boots, Trinity bar shoes, ladies lace shoes, Gibson toe shoes, Balmoral styles, and cricket shoes with prices and descriptive features. Also notes white rubber soled cricket shoes and patent leather Highland shoe options.
A regional ad promotes wicker and bamboo chairs with accompanying Mata and Foocy saddle mag suites in Keuri and Blackwood bedroom sets. Also listed are Wardrebas toilet tables Dochossu chests Waeb stands Carpola rags and door mata linoleum and quilcloths.
Melbourne Tuesday reports that the Minister of Lands will move the second reading of the Indeterminate Sentences Bill on Thursday. The measure arms courts to declare habitual criminals at age seventeen plus with two prior indictable convictions and sentence them to detention during the Governor's pleasure in a prison. Sir William Lyne comments on fodder duties and farmer opposition to abolishing the duty.
A shocking massacre in Flores Island in the East Indice reports a colonial police patrol attacked by natives. Eight women and children were slain after a brief confrontation. The massacre reverberates through European circles, with news tied to Russian and German intrigues and the broader colonial resistance.
A historical report notes the expansion of sheep and lamb export activity with new rendering and cleaning works. It mentions key firms Fletcher and Tondien, the Newport Works, and specialists like Messrs Thaw Piertinwich and Sars, detailing equipment upgrades and broader Commonwealth support. The piece highlights substantial output and the drive for better prices amid changing markets.
The House debated tariffs including textiles stores and cereals with 20 percent, British 17 percent, and starch table salt tax details. Infants food moved to free list while cabinet delays prompt longer hours for faster action. The government approved a South Wales trawler contract at 100 pounds, cheaper than the tender, with mail contract talks not yet finalised. Ministers discussed Cabinet plans and site acquisition in Strand, London, awaiting more information before a final offer.
A Monday cabinet meeting examined proposed teachers registration reforms and district salary scales. Ministers debated draft amendments to the Lands Bill and the timing of presenting a bill to the Legislative Assembly while awaiting clearer parliamentary guidance.
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