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Newspaper
Forbes Advocate
Location
Forbes, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Nov 15, 1918
Page
3
Waugh and Josephson offer a wide range of pumps including steam pumps for boiler feeding deep well pumping engines centrifugal and rotary pumps. They also provide suitable motive power such as steam engines boilers and suction gas plants. Located at Goulburn and Brisbane Streets Sydney.
SARTORIAL RENOVATORS CLEANERS and PRESSERS at Orange have set up a Receiving Depot at Forbes where all orders left will be promptly executed. Your old suit made new for a few shillings. We live to live, Everything cleaned but the baby, Ladies' work a speciality.
An impromptu Follee's Caucus meeting on Monday erupts in unrestrained celebration after peace news arrives. Toasts pour, reinforcements arrive, and the Chairman is hoisted onto a table for a speech as wives stay home. The Mayor room hosts the afterglow, leaving the crowd proud of a great feast.
Correspondence to the editor complains of indecent advertisements and handbills promoting films in Forbes. A Chief Secretary’s reply notes no law to curb such advertising and promises government consideration to remedy the situation.
Correspondent cites a disputed Bergen Park rabbit report and a heated exchange between Mr Hunter and Mr Leslie. The writer, Mr P H J Strickland, asks why Mr Hunter denied receipt of the report and requests an explanation via the editor, criticizing the chairman's refusal to discuss the matter by telephone.
Coroner Mr T M Dunn held a Forbes inquest into the death of Richard Albert De Plevitz after a horse accident on the Oakwood station road. Witnesses described a swift ride in a sulky during a thunderstorm, a fall, and the skull fracture and rib injuries leading to death.
A vivid tour of Manly as a premier Sydney seaside gem. The Corso pulse, waterwashed rockeries, flower beds, and night illumination frame a harbor side promenade. Oceanfront vistas, pine fringed bays, and a popular Band Rotunda lure thousands weekly to enjoy scenery and leisure.
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