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Newspaper
Forbes Advocate
Location
Forbes, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Jun 18, 1915
Page
1
A patchwork of wartime telegram impressions and whimsical local columns. The German message hints at Australian mutiny in Egypt with Allied tensions, while praise, blame, and ironic verse twist through the piece. The NSW coast and Lachlan River anecdotes lampoon fish markets, John Dory lore, tortoise quips, and turtle soup fantasies.
A local notice states that the Forbes Advocate is printed and published by proprietor George Washington Brownbill at the office in Lachlan Road Forbes. The terse imprint confirms ownership and location of the publication.
Garden column reviews several perennials including the Chinese Delphinium Calendula and Vinca. Notes on growth habit height and bloom colors, cut back tips for repeat flowering, and easy cultivation. Also urges vegetable gardening given high food prices and lists seed varieties for early sowing and winter crops.
All steel railway carriages prove the most scientific form of construction for rolling stock. Australia trails slightly behind but Victorian and New South Wales railways adopt Wunderlich steel ceilings and panelling in dining cars and Limited Express. These installations are germ proof, easily kept sanitary, and durable, matching the steel interior finish long used in modern homes.
Ladies sufferings from indigestion rheumatic pains headaches backache and related ailments urged to consult the Ladies College of Health. No charge for consultation and no obligation by calling. For those unable to visit, a special consultation form can be requested by writing to Dept. 14 54 Oxford Street Sydney.
A detailed timetable lists Sunday to Saturday late-evening departures linking Parkes Bogan Gate Condobolin via multiple towns including Eugowra Calarie Condobolin Newlands Hedgeraong M Phillipmy Hall Rawlin Jemulong Kennedy Sweeney Bogandillon Porters Cadlow Morgan Bros Hope Borambil Monwonga Yumeena Sydney Bathurst Orange Young Cowra Melbourne Molong Cookamidgera Parkes Tichborne Daroobalgle and other local stops with several late fees noted and repeated routes across regions.
Reports from Gallipoli praise Red Cross care for Australian wounded at Heliopolis. The July Red Cross appeal aims to fund clothes and money. In Sydney Randwick’s Winter race meeting, fashion moves toward smart tailored suits in navy and blue with bright heels and furs. The Governor-General is greeted with Highland pageantry and National Anthem. A stage piece The Serape of the Pen debuts in Sydney, celebrating Scottish themes and rural life with playful village fashion notes.
A mosaic of humorous quips and small town scenes unfolds with jokes about money and misfortune, mishearings and misdeeds. Vignettes feature a Turkish soldier’s widowhood, a recruiting poster joke near a cemetery, the St Nicholas’ renovation carpenters, and a Blagdon mayor’s sharpened knives dinner table episode. Local laughter mixes with cheeky barbs about marriage, money, and everyday life.
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