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Newspaper
Forbes Advocate
Location
Forbes, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Jul 14, 1916
Page
3
A wartime poem recounts the German Kaiser Wilhelm II dreaming he enters the afterlife. In a fiery dream, Heaven rejects him, Satan fears his influence, and the Kaiser is banished from Hell after a comic encounter with devils. The spoof ends with the Kaiser waking in bed, cursing the dream and his fate.
At Holy Trinity Church Orange last Saturday Rev Canon Taylor officiated the marriage of Muriel May Sayers second daughter of Mr and Mrs T. W. Sayers Forbes to Mr Philip Davies eldest son of Mr David Davies Brisbane. The bride wore white taffeta silk with shadow lace and pearls and a gold Nellie Stewart bangle. Miss Eva Sayers was bridesmaid and Mr William Wyle Drishane acted as best man with Mr Gordon Sayers as groomsman. The couple departed for the Blue Mountains for their honeymoon then to Sydney.
Forbes Jockey Club committee met to arrange race dates for the next year. Members discussed applying to racing authorities for dates on specific Tuesdays and Wednesdays in November, with plans for follow dates by Parkes and Orange, and requests to the Fortes Hibernian Society. Permission was granted to erect a stand on Button Day and efforts would be made to collect outstanding subscriptions.
Soldiers' letters travel from Sydney via the Suetanal to London. Postings at Forbes two days before ship departures. Details list Horali Mat Sti.owrs leaving Sydney: Morulia, Malwa, July 8, Wal(s)ar-l-lifmd, August 3. Orontes, August 12. Moollan, Aust Lo. Qiurah, August?
In reply to a notice asking letters for Private Thewis Atkins of AS Company East Tallod for service abroad. The Forbes Advocate editor invites more letters from Australian Imperial Force members in France and promises careful handling and return.
Stock sale notes from Wincheormbe and Caran outline totals for 10,000 offerings with nine markers and a 21 1 28 better. Wethers and cattle moved in larger lots, with totals reaching 1600 across items.
A historic product listing notes Woods' Great Pepperiniature for coughs and colds. The item is described as a reliable remedy still offered at the price of 1/6.
A rambling report notes Atusketoon Andralong failing to place in Ascot’s Approved Stakes while Orsaka wins a Wyong Park Novice Handicap. It mentions a wartime rally in Sydney urging action to curtail races and tax bookmakers, with mixed comments from a Mr Werhe about stadium closures and front-line needs. The piece includes disjointed labor mentions, a Reich reference, and a proposed cottage named Liarey.
A compilation of livestock transfers listing hundreds of sheep and several herds of cattle moving between towns and pastures. Owners include Doyle, Whitmill, Rowley, Hunt, Herbert, Cleary, Walsh, Kelly, Robinson, Gibbon, Jorden, Varma, and Specki. Chiefs in charge include Jervis, in trucking yards, and multiple local agents.
The month’s tally shows a flow of 4 862 760 gallons of product. Coke prices rise by 1.5 percent and will move to bulk handling. Fifty Australians abroad, landed May 21, join a work crew. nine men wounded at Cul Tipoli. Cabinet weighs MeArthur Griffith’s ministry return. Sir Almroth Wright’s antiseptic burn treatment praised. A railway worker died near Vellingen after a fall. Martha Henegan gravely injured. group blamed for collision near Colts Harbor. Parkes Freezing Co takes over Parkes butter factory factors for five years, with buy option. Parkes to distribute butter in dusty western trades area.
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