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Newspaper
Forbes Advocate
Location
Forbes, New South Wales, Australia
Date
May 12, 1925
Page
1
Goods and parcels carted to any part of the town. Furniture removed and stored. Trains met daily. Contracts entered into for any class of town carrying. Agent for the Sydney Fire Office. British Trader's Insurance Co. and local agent for Dalgety & Co. Wheat Waivers.
Ether contracts or casual advertisements for this paper will be received in Sydney by Gordon and Gotch Ltd Bar rick Street Country Press Co op Co 178 Castlereagh Street Reuters Ltd 16 Castlereagh Street.
The Grenfell J C meeting on 19 20 inst will replace a £100 show trophy with £30 and £20 substitutes. Mr P Bennett had pledged a £100 gold cup, while entries closed last Friday. Local clubs report band finances healthy with £176 3s 9d in hand. A ladies croquet club forms under the bowling club, with officers elected. a school headmaster is transferred to Dubbo district.
The April wool sale report notes mixed demand across regions and fibers. Better skirtings and superfine spinning wools saw some activity, while facility merino and combing wools faced weaker interest. Prospects look uncertain with talks of sales suspensions and possible May cancellations.
Notices inform Bankers and Tradera Insurance and other advertisers that copy changes must reach the paper by specified deadlines each week. The rule applies to Monday and Thursday editions with earlier submissions rewarded by better display, and no departures from the schedule will be made in the future.
A three year old girl, daughter of Mr and Mrs Fogarty of Braemar, broke her right arm when a fence rail fell on her after climbing it. Dr Overend set the bone. Rain began around 1 30 am Wednesday with showers recorded in the district. Lodge Trundle installed officers including LEM Wor Bro Ellis and others from nearby lodges, with a large attendance. A Trundle P and A Association meeting discussed show dates, but a motion for one or two days show was defeated and the usual parade was dispensed with.
Gotera Sherwood a veteran House member tells the New York World that prohibition laws are failing. He cites crowded penitentiaries rising crime and bootlegging, warns against endorsing decaying personal-habit laws, and urges wiser policy.
The lines evoke a critique of glittering crowns and hollow grandeur amid blood and bone. A "part of the play" suggests illusion vs reality, with references to gold and a Peppermint Cure as a symbol of cure and irony in the scene.
A garbled report describes a well dressed man shopping for clothes at Forbes, purchasing from Les Ovis, styled with Stetson hats. The scene references a store on Templar Street and a careful selection by buyers, highlighting local merchant activity.
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