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Newspaper
Forbes Advocate
Location
Forbes, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Sep 27, 1918
Page
5
Mr Melville offers eye tests and treatment for strain twitching headaches and common eye troubles. He advertises cataracts inflammation and general eye diseases as a practical optician with personal service and no agents. His next stop is Albion Hotel in town.
An advertisement lists G. Hugo & Son as local agents for Dalgety & Co Wool and Machinery, Nicholson & Morrow farm implements, Wolseley sheep shearing machines, Bundle Chall cutters, and Victoria Insurance Co Ltd.
QDY Preston announces takeover of the Rankin Street Livery Stables formerly run by White at Rankin Street near the hotel. He pledges strict attention to business and fair dealing to attract customers as Paddy Preston, proprietor.
The Forbes District School quarterly examination results list winners across classes. Notable top performers include Joseph Autchison Reg Green Arthur Harkness Chiord Butress and Arthur Field in Sixth Class, Elwyn Jones Gordon Keane and Leslie Johnson in Class A, Wille Breele Albert Fraser in Class B, and Ken Tabart Gordon Roberts in Fourth Class with multiple equal placements and a long roster of others.
The third to sixth class lists show Nellia Baker Laurel Weaver and others with placements from 1 to 10. Several entries include equal marks and multiple spellings of surnames appear across classes.
John Bridge & Co. Ltd reports September 1915 market. Wool not offered in Sydney until month end. merino wethers up 2s6d, breds to 57/7, merino ewes to 62/4. Cattle 20/- dearer. hoggets and weights priced by age and quality. Porky sums, calves and rabbits show varied gains and declines. tallow up 40d per ton for best, skins fall, auctions rates for merino wool steady-to-lower.
The Southern Produce and Live Stock Company lists last week auction prices for poultry at the Municipal Poultry Markets. Young roosters and cocks to 11/. hens 4/6 to 5/0. heavy breeds to 8/6. Moulard ducks 10/- to 12/- per pair. turkeys and gobblers priced per live weight. market to reopen for a few weeks with instructions for sellers to forward poultry without delay.
Wool from July 1 to date totals over 140000 bales in Sydney, up 65000 from last year’s period. Mid Western mid Southern and mid Northern centres report full owing shedding. An early start aids appraisements and catalogues to pace the clip. about 24000 bales expected to be dealt with in Sydney before Christmas.
Reuter cables say East of the Jordan enemy withdrawals toward Amman with Australian New Zealand West Indian and Jewish troops pursuing reaching Es Salt and capturing guns and prisoners. Our cavalry takes Haifa and Acre as prisoner's area grows and Allenby defeats three Turkish armies. The Indian troops play a major role in the victory.
Henry Nelson known as Snowy Nelson a plate layer faced Forbes Court with inciting Joseph Kelly to resist Constable M Gannon during duty. Nelson pleaded not guilty with D J Moloney as counsel. The magistrates discharged Nelson after hearings noting no clear incitement.
Reports from Sweden and Paris describe Petrograd's collapse into anarchy with mass killings and starvation. Authorities warn millions face a brutal winter as coal and fuel distribution fails and food runs short. British efforts seek release of Allied subjects including British Vice-Consul Lockhart amid the calamity.
Andralong led Forbes entrants early but finished behind Celluloid in Opening Handicap. Winillo also placed second in Welter while Charleville won the main event from Bulin and My Fortune. Other winners included Removal Tamil and Andralony in final handicap with Coberanna Strike Form Carmray among placers.
A printed home remedy recipe for White Pine and Tar cough syrup from retired chemist notes. It details ingredients including sugar and Garrod's Extract, and instructions to dissolve sugar in boiling water, mix with extract, bottle, cork, and take two teaspoonfuls every three hours. Garrod's Extract price and pharmacy contact included.
A paste dip advertised as easy to use and costing about a farthing per sheep. It allegedly yields record greasy wool prices, leaves wool soft and silky, and destroys parasites, with claims of long history of use.
Oak bedroom suites from £10 a unit with wardrobes drawers and dressers plus bedsteads not nickel plated. Wire mattresses and stretchers and patriotic frames. Goods bought direct from manufacturers and sold from Fordea on behalf of Tarling & Son for the wheat season. Wheat sacks for sale at government price and late season fowl feed.
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