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Newspaper
Forbes Advocate
Location
Forbes, New South Wales, Australia
Date
May 05, 1916
Page
1
A jumbled column recounts varied comments on Russian forces in France and Anglo Scots pride, mixing imagined debates about diplomacy with vignettes on baking wages, political tensions, and odd anecdotes. It threads through social mores, labor ideas, and a train parable, amid scattered literary references.
Forbes district soldiers list fallen wounded and missing in action for their King and country. Killed entries include Barton, Currie, Dunne, Elliot, and others. died in camp Young and Elliott. wounded numbers list many names such as Relland, Browne, Burke, Chatman, Cousins, Crocker, Dunn, Foster. invalided home and sick in hospital entries follow with Beas, Heuregill, Brewater, Gow, Hackett. on furlough marked Morriel with note of unclear residence.
Train schedule lists Parkes Rogan Gates Tullamore Trundle and Forbes Condorolin line services. Down trips show arrival departure times to Parkes Rogan Gate Trundle Trundls Forbes Condorolin with Mon Wed Fri and Tue Thu Sat runs. Up trips reflect reverse movements with morning and afternoon departures and connections at Parkes Tullamore and Condorolin.
A dense, fragmentary mail timetable lists town names such as Parkes, Bogan Gate, Molong, Cowra, Parkes to Sydney routes, with departures noted in afternoon and evening slots. It includes numerous stations, via Cowra, Trundle, and Ooma Creek, and repeats patterns across weekdays.
A brief notice references Standard Insurance Co of WZ Ltd and associates including Uropa and Starke, and mentions accident related to livestock events such as foaling risk and the insurance coverage.
Fire accident and live stock policies issued to cover dwellings furniture stores stock in trade farm buildings crops and personal sickness works'ens compensation with homesteads woolsheds barns and growing crops insured at low current rates by Scottish Union and National Insurance Gov the document lists coverages and low rates for rural properties and livestock protection
Walter J Kelly and Company announce auction sales conducted in any part of the state with stock and property listed on application Trust money lent at the lowest current rates district agents in Parkes Forbes and Peak for Valketya and Lid Auborn Adynewcen ma wend Stork Lot.
The City Mutual Fire Insurance Co limited reports assets and reserves for 1906. Head Office listed as 95 Pitt Street Sydney. Alderman Thomas Hughes chairs the Board of Advice with Robert KiKi as manager. Paid up capital and subscribed capital figures appear, with reserve funds and total security values detailed.
The notice outlines accident and workmen's compensation coverage offered by ED, WEAVER & CO, in collaboration with Horwich and London Accident Insurance Association. It mentions acceptance of various accident insurances and applications for term coverage and related products.
A collage of misquoted lines and quips portrays social foibles and courtroom turns. Jests about marriage, divorce, gossip, and odd observations sting with cultural flavor, featuring a magistrate, a nun, a cheerful critic, and a wary speaker amid scattered dialogues.
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