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Newspaper
Forbes Advocate
Location
Forbes, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Dec 16, 1927
Page
12
The Postal Department launches a campaign to ensure Christmas greetings and presents reach addresses before Christmas Day. A leaflet will urge early posting to prevent delays, endorsing articles with Not to be opened until Christmas Day. Public cooperation reduced post-Christmas delivery, with prior year showing fewer late items.
A distinguished visitor dined in the district and praised the local show places. He commented on the joint and breakfast steak, with the host noting the meat comes from Webb's Premier Butchery.
Trundle week features visits by Mr Grant inspector, Ms Norris and postmaster shifts. A bonny baby arrives for Mr and Mrs Davis, while Mr Collins battles illness and Virginia Bassett shines at a Soldiers concert. Apple Island holiday, new roles for Muldoon and Jansen’s concert troubles frame a busy town scene along with wedding news and a drift toward motorized wheat transport.
A collage of humorous anecdotes and anarchic captions features a Russian police officer removing an incendiary placard, soldiers and officials recalling Boer War memories, Irish post office quips, Mrs Gladstone punchlines, and and a stream of one liners about family life, illness, and schooling. The tone mimics a late nineteenth to early twentieth century miscellany.
The Presbyterian Ladies College Orange invites pupil enrollment for boarding school girls from eight years upward. Opens February 19278 with prospectus from Rev F R Innes BA Orange. Principal Mrs EB Linck, formerly Beecroft and Melbourne PLC.
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