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Newspaper
Colac Herald
Location
Colac, Victoria, Australia
Date
Oct 05, 1914
Page
6
A fragmented OCR snippet hints at a banket track event with athletes and a banket meeting. Names and precise details are unreadable, but the note points to a notable race and a suspenseful outcome at an older track gathering.
The readable text is garbled with no clear names, places, dates, or events. No coherent headline or summary can be formed from the fragment.
An ad style fragment promotes a large variety of furniture and home goods for Australian households. It emphasizes cash orders, durable items like beds and couches, and a focus on value and quality. The text includes stray mentions of children’s health and domestic items, indicating a multipurpose retailer notice from a past era.
An old time classified style ad extols clothing quality and appearance as the key to success. It highlights dress meaning, tailoring fit and style, urging prudent buyers to invest in well made garments from a local tailor offering tweeds and coatings.
PGGS are of phowhos a line of clowes in wooden frames on legs at 8/6 each. These made nice wee items. Winters, Fairyland, Sportaman, Aerostate, Antartica and other lines available from 2/8 to 14/6. Includes boxing gloves, punching balls, ornaments at 6d and 1/4 each. Also cups, bowls, salt, pepper and mustard sets. Frames and shelves priced from 1/9 to 6/ to hold items. Special well finished line.
An old classified ad lists wool and cotton bedding items with measurements and prices for various beds including three quarter and double beds. It also mentions milking separators machines with brands Hath or Releaser System Sunpheat and Best.
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