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Newspaper
Forbes Advocate
Location
Forbes, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Jul 07, 1922
Page
3
A, DALLMAN, late ATF, announces seeking out J Heffernan's Dakery Wustness at South Forbes and solicits public support. Delivery to all parties of Forbes, Train and Comeh supplice forwarded. Phone No. 14.
Parkes suffered a sharp winter spell with snow flurries sleet and frost. A boy was treated for a neck bite at Parkes hospital. The Rifle Club elected P M'Dermott patron and M L A James M'Girr president. Bank of events included hospital ball juvenile ball and posters prize winners. Local court fines were issued for gun license and industrial arbitration breaches. Parkes DP A Association and land acts discussed with funding reports and proposed amendments. River railway and coal rate issues challenged council finances and a proposed Maori tour was declined.
Recent rains did little to the storage reservoirs. Bumn bury dropped three inches in the fortnight while Beargamilies held steady. Beattles won the M Dermott trophy on the local rifle range. Waller claimed the sub trophy for beating the shoot off at 690 and 700 yards. The Club trophy with handicap at the same distances and the NHLA aggregate medal for all ranges were awarded.
A brief ad from The Motor Journal in Australia invites readers to obtain a free specimen copy of The Motor in Australia. It promotes a complete description of cars on the market and provides the address The Motor Press 16 Pitt Street Sydney for requests and selections.
What Beaver Salts are advertised as a scientifically compounded medicine for liver stomach kidney and bladder troubles. The copy touts morning doses and natural liver function, urging readers to buy Beaver Health Salts at 2 shillings per bottle from FP T Knapton and chemists, with wholesale from Australian Drug Co Ltd and Elliott Bros Ltd Sydney.
A vintage advertisement promises removal of freckles and skin tone improvement using Dermax and San-de-Clar hair tonic. It touts rapid transformation from brown freckled skin to a clearer, youthful complexion, promoting purchase through F. T. Knapton, Forbes chemist.
Serious warnings against neglecting skin diseases accompany a testimonial for Doan's Ointment. Mrs George Browne of Forbes recalls eczema on her daughter’s head fading after a few applications and two pots, with a later claim of permanent cure. Doan's Ointment sells for 2/9 per pot via Foster, M'Clellan Co., Sydney.
Diggers about to marry offer to accept bonds for furniture from City Warehouse with full valor, continuous until 1924. Bonds carefully packed and delivered before marriage. Write or call B Honey, furnishing warehouseman, 84 Elizabeth Street, Sydney near King Street.
A vintage advertisement urges using "Timmy the Granite" to fix broken ornaments. It promises a perpetual bond with the chemical. It also hawks "Bugnet" to kill all insects and "Swamp" as a Bush Remedy for corns and warts sold widely by chemists and stores.
Sporting the Turf Jojean the Forbes horse carries 74 in the principal handicap for 14 milee at Moorfield races to be held tomorrow. Peak Hill Jockey Club advertise their show meeting on Thursday and Friday July 27 and 28. A £175 programme will be issued, nominations close Saturday July 15. About twenty local horses are in training and a good meeting is expected.
Brooklands drivers push records with three lapping at 122 mph as Lee Guinness clocks near 1224 mph for a lap in a Sunbeam twelve cylinder. A Rolland-Pilain with straight eight targets 1000 rpm while plans rise to revive Warrnambool Melbourne cycle race over about 170 miles at 26 mph average.
Revenue for Forbes Lands Office up to June 1 shows £688 1s. The year records 2 annual leases, 1 auction sale, 6 after auction gates, 100 conditional renewals, 23 conditional purchases, 145 transfers, 2 conditional purchase leases, 94 homestead selections and renewals, 13 residential leases and renewals, 192 special leases, 192 trades and water courses renewals, 4 closer settlement act applications, and 6 suburban holdings. Also notes a whisky advertisement for Sandy Macdonald Scotland.
The local Rugby League held its executive meeting Tuesday with J Fell presiding. Father Fitzpatrick resigned as President. W T Gilchrist to fill the vacancy. Dubbo will donate the Johnny Walker Cup for west of Orange competition. Referees named for Sunday. Trundle beat Calarie 26–0 in the western district shield prelims.
Three rinks from Forbes visited Parkes on Wednesday and won by nine points in a close friendly. The Parkes green impressed as a promising new facility, with players Rath Malloy McMurray Buckland Smiles Hegarty Lockhart Plunkett Golding Flannery Leeco Soak Windsor Bockell Haydon Baldock Muller Boyd Medlyn Cox Flynn McGaskin contributing to a spirited contest.
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