07 Dec 1917
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Newspaper
Forbes Advocate
Location
Forbes, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Dec 07, 1917
Page
1
A garbled reminiscence piece recalls Jock and Barbie Burns in a Scottish football wartime anecdote. The narrator reflects on bravado, community banter, and public events as the tale wanders through sports, poetry, and local lore with strong language and a finicky, period tone.
The list details numerous industrial items including separator systems, milking machines, steam equipment, refrigeration, and textile machinery. It highlights components from Hyatts and Haw bearings, disintegrators, steam power parts, and assorted engines plus belts, pulleys, and rotating tanks, all marketed by a supplier named Welt Ing.
Walter J Kelly and Co Auctioneers advertises stock and station services and financing options across the state. District agents in Parkes Forbes peakill1 offer prompt loans on stock and merchandise with liberal advances and trust money to lend at low current rates.
The shop promises lasting impressions with fine suits crafted from top fabrics. Experts ensure precise tailoring and durable construction. Saturated details highlight satin, stitching, and fit, with a focus on assured workmanship in every thread.
Scrape of an aged advertisement page showing brands and products including wool, machinery, insurance, and sheep shearing tools. The text is incomplete with misread letters and broken names, offering glimpses of 19th or early 20th century trade items and vendors.
Ad offers first class cars for hire with careful drivers. Cara available daily or Shah for journeys. Bale Agents advertise Nobby Thread and survival services at Little Court Street opposite Albion Hotel. Contact details listed as 9 AJHLC Bak PHONES 4 and Jy.
Funded coverage for fire accident live stock and property at low rates. Dwellings furniture stores stork-in-luila farm buildings and personal accident sickness workers compensation included. Local agents Forbes printed by George Washington Brownhill at The Forbes Advocate Lachlan Forbes.
Norwich and London insure with FL Ratu and Co district representatives offer personal accident workmen's compensation and other branches of accident insurance accepted. Terms on applicant.
Meg Pearce and Williams Parkes announce the opening of a new branch of their Stork and Property Business in Templar Street Forbes. The offices, formerly occupied by Murphy and Lozell, will be under Mr B S Viltema supervision. Correspondence invites auction sales across the district.
A summary of market reporting on hides skins and wool from Sydney and local firms. Prices for merinos wool and lambs shown with figures like 14d and 1 1d per unit. traders named include Winehcombe Carson Ltd and others. Conditions described as steady with several lots sold and values noted, including government purchase mentions and assorted item listings.
Market notes from Sydney discuss December drainage costs and warehousing issues, with emphasis on wool lots at Flemington and buying interest for quality crossbred skins. Prices fluctuated across categories, including sheep, mutton, rabbit skins, and toweling stock.
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