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Newspaper
Forbes Advocate
Location
Forbes, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Dec 11, 1925
Page
1
The Albion Hotel in Forbes is presented as the leading hotel in town and competitive with western rivals. It emphasizes guest comfort, accurately labeled liquors, expert chef and cuisine, with ARCH. FREEBAIRN as proprietor.
Tattersall's Hotel Lachlan Street promotes comfort and quality with excellent accommodation meals and well labeled liquor. Proprietor J J Flannery and E Day promise up to date service and the full satisfaction guests expect, with phone access.
Mrs ER J Hooper announces taking over the South Forbes Hotel formerly of the Metropolitan Hotel. She pledges top brands of spirits true to label and cool beer, with good traveller accommodation. Phone 123 for contact.
The firm announces its office is now at the Town Produce Store in Sherriff Street Forbes with full stock of chaff lucerne hay oats flour bran pollard meal and chick wheat. Orders also received for Hamp SAUR wines fruit rough and dressed timber hard wood battens for droppers and gates. Forbes 20 July 1926.
A compact classified-style ad touts a sewing machine as essential to every home and promises the best quality for buyers. The brief pitch emphasizes necessity and top performance to entice purchases.
Spare parts and accessories catalog for Singers advertised at Fred Shirvington's Boot Shop on Hilda Street near Cricket Ground. Forbes and District Agent offers delivery of machines free to any part of the district.
Residents and visitors to Forbes are urged to take advantage of improvements at the Vandenberg Hotel now offering top accommodation. The lounges rival any in the West with extensive comfort, perfect cuisine, and attentive service making it Forbes leading hotel.
Central location hotel offers solid comfort with excellent accommodation and cuisine. Full bar includes wines beers and spirits with a selection of labels. Stable facilities available. Contact E. Martin via phone 63.
After this date all persons found trespassing on Wandary Holding will be prosecuted without respect to persons. Persons removing horses or other stock without authority will be prosecuted with the utmost rigor of the law.
A £20 reward is offered for information leading to the conviction of persons stealing stock from Wandary. The notice lists a sheep marked W on the back, a horse and cattle brand Spyglass, and is signed by Walter H. R. Stitt.
E H Byrnes Carrying Forwarding and General Commission Agent announces its office move from Lachlan Street to Spring Street near the Strand Picture Theatre. Services include goods transport town wide, furniture storage, daily train meetings, and town carrying contracts. Local agents for Sydney Fire Office, British Traders Insurance, and Dalgety & Co wheat buyers. Phone 336.
The Farmers and Graziers Cooperative Co reports a broad wool sale catalogue with Burrs and poor condition wools, noting strong interest from Yorkshire, Japan, and rising American and German competition. London sales show steady demand for superior grades as forthcoming selling dates are listed with bale counts and district results.
Portulacca dominates warm season planting with dense edging and rock-work use. Garden guidance highlights salading crops like radish, cress, lettuce, and beetroot with staggered sowings for continuous yield. Cape gooseberries rise in popularity for jam, conserve, or raw eating, requiring space for ample growth.
Lavender products in gift packets from Shepherd & Son Ltd advertise direct farm sales from 734 George Street Sydney. Packets peat free priced 1 shilling for four, 2 shillings for six, with post free delivery.
An advertisement touts Donn's Backache Kidney Pills as an effective kidney remedy for back pain urinary disorders and nervous symptoms. It cites a Baker Mr A Reynolds of Forbes and his wife Mrs Reynolds praising the pills after long use and urges readers to buy Doan's via Foster McClellan Co. Sydney.
Under new management the Wattle Cafe now leads in soda fountain drinks fruit and refreshments. Fresh figs and oysters featured every Friday.
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