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Newspaper
Forbes Advocate
Location
Forbes, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Jul 14, 1916
Page
1
Disjointed account blends casual travel, birding, and local life with scattered lines about Forbush Lagoon and town events. The text shifts to global war updates mentioning Germany and Allied fronts, then returns to weather, crops, and local anecdotes. Multiple named entities appear in a jumbled mosaic.
Forbes district soldiers listed with kills and wounds from France and Gallipoli. The roll names many individuals with affiliations to Forbes, Meous, and surrounding areas, noting those killed and those wounded including entries like KILLED Harton H P and DIED IN CAMNY Young Vivian, with others marked WOUNDED. The article notes shore-list ambiguities for entries lacking place names and that enlistment sometimes occurred outside the district.
Train times printed amid garbled OCR list routes including Parkes to Bogan Gate and Tullamore with mentions of Trundle and CULLA MONE. Schedule references days such as Tuesday Thursday and Saturday, noting Monday Wednesday and Monday for rows, but text remains unclear and partial.
The page lists a dense schedule with many place names and routes across days Monday to Sunday. It names stations such as Melbourne Parkes Cowra Grenfell Weelung Orange and Parkes with times around 9 30 am 4 30 pm and late fees noted for some legs. The text resembles a transportation timetable with numerous misspellings and unfamiliar entities.
An OCR fragment outlines the Scottish Union and National Insurance Company including crops and stock insurance at Hawston, detailing accident and live stock coverage. It notes funds of £10,000,000 for accident and sickness, workers' compensation, and associated insured items such as furniture, storerooms, barns, yards, wool sheds, and livestock across various insured classes at current rates.
Walter J Kelly & Co offers sale of real estate and property listings with urging appeals for borrowers. The ad references lowest current rates and quick lending terms, claiming broad agency coverage and expedited service to secure park and street property transactions.
A chaotic vignette blends jokes, social quirks, and street scenes as a traveler, waiter, and others drift through a rainy evening. Characters argue, flirt, and react to a distant furnace glow, while onlookers miss a dramatic moment amid bustling urban oddities and witty exchanges.
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