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Newspaper
Forbes Advocate
Location
Forbes, New South Wales, Australia
Date
May 14, 1915
Page
7
Ad lists seed packets with many flower varieties including pansy glants stocks carnations delphinium formosum and china types, plus seeds for beet borecole broccoli cabbage cauliflower celery carrot parsnip radish lettuce peas beans and more at 3d 6d and 1d 1/ packet. Includes COBRA mixed and mixed flower varieties. notes market quantities available.
Mr E J Grinsted, a stationer in Ete, keeps Dranefield seeds in stock offered to customers seeking garden supplies and related items.
4LOBERMAN THOMAS HUGHES J.P. Chairman of Board of Advice ROBERT KERR Manager. FINANCIAL POSITION: Rlst 1906 Capital Paid Up Reserve Fund Balance Carried Forward £97,500 £20,260 £19,383.
The Lusitania, a trans Atlantic liner, weighed 30 396 tons with four screws and four funnels. Maiden voyage began September 7 1907. It carried 3200 people including 600 first class 500 second class 1300 third class and 827 crew. The ship featured lavish amenities and cost £1 260 000.
Wirths Circus announces a one night show at Forbes featuring M Mamier and a frontier Cossack cavalry display. The act promises thrilling demonstrations of lance, rifle, and sword in a wartime style performance with horses trained for mounted charge.
A Brisbane reader praises the Good Roads Association and the Millions Club for stirring interest across the state. The letter notes concern about poor roads and favors practical car use, mentioning a Humberette 2 seater priced at £190 and quoted as comfortable and petrol efficient for long runs.
In Evans diary entry dated June the narrator chronicles traveling along the Lachlan River in a red loam country with pine timber and box trees. He notes river alignment toward the Macquarie, limestone bottoms, and the Warwick Plains near Mount Lachlan while detailing encounters with natives, weather, and obstacles, and expresses willingness to undertake future inland exploration.
In Forbes Police Court on Tuesday morning Charles Roger Kerr faced a riotous behavior charge from February 16 in Rankin street. Testimony from Constable Fuller and witnesses Hapgood Day and Doughty described a barroom scuffle at Sinclair's Hotel and Forbes Hotel premises. Kerr denied hitting Hapgood while Hapgood admitted a prior hit. the magistrate fined Hapgood and warned Kerr regarding his conduct while keeping the bond for good behavior.
In a dated diary style account the narrator describes frigid weather with snow on distant mountains near Van Diemen's Land, broken ice two inches thick, evergreen-thick country and bad rocky sections. June journeys lead toward Bathurst with cold misty rain and a plan to find a better road, signed by G. W. Evans Deputy Surveyor and companions Kane Appledore Butler Burns Tyghe.
A lone analyst in his chamber soliloquizes over a cryptic text. The passage references a thug and a critical tome with dramatic lines about a potent compound and a peppermint cure name woven into the wording.
In a Forbes dispatch Trooper Jas O Hea writes from Egypt of first expeditionary force action in Dardanelles plans. He predicts a tough landing under bombardment and asserts resolve to seize and keep territories. He also recalls a brief Arab encounter and praises Australian troops. The appendage includes two verses dreaming of Berlin and Kaiser downfall.
Wool merchants in Sydney Melbourne and Brisbane work to ease deadlock protecting growers. Sheep and lamb prices rise with strong demand. cattle reach high rates around £2 per 100 lb for best beef. Pigs and malves show steady prospects. tallow opens low but rebounds. Sheepskins vary. hides steady for fines, other skins drop slightly. yearlings and calves ease.
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