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Newspaper
Forbes Advocate
Location
Forbes, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Sep 18, 1925
Page
10
Bronzino the proven sire stands this season at Glen Idyll Forbes for 35 mares. Terms include £10 10s payable before removal and ground paddock rates with grass free for multiple mares. Season runs September 1 to December 1 with Bronzino under personal charge and limited agistment.
G Sheehan of Glen Idyll Stud Farm Forbes invites mare owners to arrange training visits and offers free return if the mare travels by train. A stud circular is available on application. Phone 244 for details.
Rumored entry states Royal Alwyne an eight year old blood horse will stand the season at Warroo for 26 guineas. Details imply breeding prospects and stud duties for the upcoming season.
Royal Alwyne’s pedigree spans Melbourne Cup winners and top stakes horses including Poitrel, Nightwatch, Sir Alwyton, St Carwyne, and Amazonia. The line traces to Abercorn and Chester through Crand Flaneur and Yattendon, with Marchesa as matrilineal ancestor and Swiveller linked to Mantor and Tim Gwiveller. Lord Alwyne sired Wynette and other South Australian winners. note reads “Every care is taken, but no responsibility incurred.”
The will reveals personal jabs at family and staff including a wife with a lover, a son promised idle earnings, a daughter set to receive 100000 dollars, a valet to keep stolen clothes and fur, a chauffeur with the cars, and a partner advised to invite a clever man. Also notes rabbit trappers in Tamworth and a costly public dance exclude others, keeping traps socially dominant.
An 1679 UK act reportedly sought to criminalize women who seduced or betrayed men with cosmetics and attire such as paints, wigs, hairpieces, hoops, and high heels. The piece notes the drastic potential impact on marriage if such a law were revived today.
Mr. T. McGeorge a Cowra gunsmith and handyman departed by train last week to live with his daughter at Yeoval. He was known for kindness to hospital patients and for discovering Kate Kelly Slater drowned near Forbes. A skilled temperer of springs and lover of sewing machines and phonographs, he will be missed in Cowra.
An old advertisement promotes Heenso as a cough and flu medicine. It claims a family supply treats coughs croup whooping cough and bronchitis when water and sugar are added to Heenso, equating to eight bottles for a shilling price and encourages taking Heenso straight from the bottle when traveling. It notes availability from chemists and stores.
The Forbes Jockey Club met at the Metropolitan Hotel with president W Brooke and others. Balance sheet for August 27–28 shows receipts of 1226/19 and total expenditure of 866/8, yielding a credit balance of 469/10/4 and sixty horses competing.
PROMPT CARTAGE offers rapid freight with attentive service. Two lorries ready for hire at the Globe Hotel, phone 100. Waratah Motor Spirit agent handles fueling needs for all consignments.
Wheat Buyers for John Darling 4 Sons Ltd agents for H V McKay Pty Ltd Machinery. Large stock of duplicates on hand phone 68.
The list shows dates from September to May across towns Dubbo Canowindra Lyndhurst Bindogundra Geurie Alayney Yeoval Orange Parkes Bathurat Blayney Blayney Forbes Dublin Rathurat and Lyndhurst, including a March show meeting and various venue names. It reads as a regional events calendar with repeated travels.
The Railway Department announces cheap excursion trains this month from September 39 to October 2. They will serve all parts of the State with return options within one calendar month for 600 mile journeys and within 42 days for longer routes. Handbills with full details are at all stations and station masters can explain conditions.
The Thoroughbred Stallions present Seidonolly the only horse to beat the Imported Greyspear in the country show ring. Ares met half-way. Stud fee £5 5s. Bred on approved lines with St Simon double cross of Mucket and Fisherman. Rich in Stockwell lines. Seidonolly has taken sixteen firsts.
Parkes notice from W. E. Botterill owner reports that all honey bee equipment or hives must be paid for prior to removal. Season starts set for September with Goold Grass Paddocks. S J Botterill in charge.
Lone mare Flying Fox, winner of The Oaks, is dam to Gum Derby and Planudes with Leger connections and a 40 pound granddam relation to a Malster. For details contact FE A Taylor Sunny Side Cudal via telephone Cudal 4.
A local notice touts The Fortes Advocate claiming high class work and affordable prices. The copy emphasizes quality printing offered at no extra cost compared with rival services.
Parkes shop advertises high quality garments with phone contact 16 OreFRANK LANCH Alectown offering smart whitted gab and serge robes for Miss Bathgate as a featured display by Pearce and Williams.
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