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Newspaper
Forbes Advocate
Location
Forbes, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Dec 15, 1916
Page
5
Auctioned in Patraon farm station the Bandy Worker workshop features a strong vice a cutting wedge for wire and steel a punch drill and grinding wheel with tools from Hunter and Phill ips The package price quoted is £118 including carriage and delivery.
Notice announces the opening of Hinkles next to the Advocate on Lachlan Street at the start of the New Year. P Molloy is named as proprietor.
The Forbes Pony Racing and Trotting Committee thanks the following at their December 7 meeting for support of their premises. Names include Meysen Jan Mengher & Co Ltd White & Co M Lee Hughes Muiwon & Cousten Pratley A Harri Hansard A E Bosne Geddes G Solo Turner Webb Hunter Philips Pooaghey Le Brocané Bear D Guipin A F styetie OD Burkland J Maguire and others. Court forces licensing notices follow.
By order of THE MANAGER a notice requires Drovers passing through Bares bun to give notice at Barer uous.
A booklet titled Historic Forbes and District, describing Forbes town, its institutions and industries, is released in a second edition after ten months of success. It targets readers gifting abroad this Christmas, including soldiers in the trenches, and will be sold this week at Forbes newsagents and the Advocate Office for one shilling per copy.
The Treasury New South Wales Sydney warns that from January 1 1917 betting tickets must bear the pre printed duty stamp. Violators face prosecution. Also notices trespass and lost bullocks near Bogablu, with a reward offered for information leading to recovery. Moire Brooke & Co Forbes issued.
Fragmentary text indicates prosecutions for unspecified acts at Yunis Station with strong language about authorities and penalties. Names MIGIER and TOMPIINS appear as garbled references, but the content is largely unintelligible. The readable portion implies legal actions without respect to persons, but lacks concrete details.
Henry, patent agent and manufacturer, authorizes M Donnall of Sherritt Street to sell his patent cool safes for Forbes. Parkes, October 19, 1916.
Fragmentary OCR lists perfumes, colognes, hair brushes, and small items with assorted prices and codes. Entries include English colognes at 16 dollars, hair brushes, and pocket accessories, all presented in a merchant-style listing from Hunts.
Railway ticket notice from Forbes Monumental Works announces single and return fares for travel from Sydney via Intermediate Station with coupons and restrictions. Details include departure times, seasonable holiday travel dates, fare guarantees, and the issuing authority Secretary Sperway.
Local supplier advertises low prices on binder twine chaff, rock salt, coarse and fine salt, carbide, forage, and all colonial produce. They offer packing for store furniture and announce a racing programme for Thursday December 28, 1916 with handicaps and prizes, noting proceeds aid Red Cross and a weigh-in policy with entries open to regional owners.
An old catalog style notice advertises a range of carving sets, table steels, knives, spoons, and related kitchen tools with prices. It lists 7 and 8 inch handled carvers, 10 set carvers, French cooks knives, dinner knives, dessert knives, bread knives, and quality cutlery lines. Listings include sizes, styles, and partial prices, inviting inspection and sale.
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