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Newspaper
Forbes Advocate
Location
Forbes, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Dec 22, 1916
Page
1
A column mocks boastful travelers and self important types amid reflections on weather, politics, and a public bridge. It notes a late October flood damaged Fouth Lead Bridge and critiques municipal slow action versus private enterprise. The piece lampoons the Kaiser and ridicules eager poll watchers while urging decisive civic effort.
Scottish Union and National Insurance Co. offers live stock, farm, and personal accident policies at low rates with coverage for swelled animals, furniture, stores, crops, and workmen’s compensation. Local agents listed in Forbes with address 84 Pitt Street, Sydney. Funds amounting to £10,000,000.
Walter J. Kelly and 60 conduct auction sales across the state listing stock and property on application. District agents Parkes Forbes and Peak Hill for Dalgety & Co Ltd offer trust money to lend at the lowest current rates. Liberal advances available on wool and stock. Let us know your requirements.
The City Mutual Fire Insurance Co Ltd reports December 1906 figures with capital paid up £27,500, reserve fund £20,250, balance carried forward £19,088, funds actually in hand £77,133, subscribed capital uncalled £262,500 and total security £42999,633. Chairman J Thomas Hughes and Manager Robert Kerr are named in the board notice.
ED Wea ver and Co and the Norwich and London Accident Insurance Association advertise personal accident and workmen's compensation insurance. F R Rath and other representatives are listed for, and the text notes terms on applying.
A mosaic of overheard exchanges and scenes shows townsfolk gossiping, arguing, and sharing small dramas. A khaki soldiers train waits at a Wiltshire station as a galley of locals reacts with humor and disbelief to misread signals and a misfired golf shot that lands on a terrier, exposing social quirks and urban bluster.
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