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Newspaper
Geelong Advertiser
Location
Geelong, Victoria, Australia
Date
Dec 01, 1913
Page
6
An auction notice describes sale of household furniture and effects including tables chests of drawers and dressers, kitchen utensils, china birds and ornaments. The property frontages and building plots on a Belmont street are listed with substantial residences and building allotments offered for sale or transfer.
Geelong West area lists a small cottage for rent near tram routes and local facilities. Advert shows a brick shop and a corner brick building nearby with prices around £55 per foot. Mentions new growth near Maloeetseet and Se street with a brick shop and two plain rooms.
Property notices from Geelong area listing furnished and unfurnished houses on Whiey and James streets Latrobe Terrace and Willamanta Street. Includes acreages, lot sizes, cottage plans, and rental terms. Auctioneers Higgins Dentat Aco advertise sales, locations, and terms for private sale and public auction.
The period bulletin lists numerous ships arriving and sailing including mails and cargo to and from Hobart Sydney Melbourne and Brisbane. It records arrivals at Port Philip and Sydney with vessels such as Mymettus Grantaia Wimmera and Zealandia and notes departures to Hobart Brisbane and Fremantle amid general maritime traffic and travel updates.
Sporting details appear garbled with many misread words. It references events, people and venues in a dated sports column style, noting matchups, times, and local teams. The readable fragments point to a Saturday gathering, team names, and scores or standings, but the text is largely unreadable.
At Ocean Grove and nearby locations, rifle shooters faced a dancing light challenge as a friendly match unfolded. Pens, targets, and spectators watched a tense display with a seven second pause described, while teams from Ocean Grove and nearby gathered for a social, competitive event ending in a mixed level of success and entertainment.
Fragmentary OCR text mentions cricket, players and several personal names, with scattered phrases and quotes. The passage lacks coherent events, dates, teams, or outcomes to form a proper news item.
Confused report outlines a maritime event with scattered names and places. It mentions yachts, crews, and a scheduled start near a harbor. References to clocks, feeds, and navigational markers appear amid garbled phrases. The gist points to a sailing competition with boats, teams, and spectators awaiting a key signal.
The text reads as broken OCR notes mentioning various names and terms such as emmys opus and award related words. It lists names like Melanie and Gund and references movie theaters or sites with unclear context. Overall it appears to be a jumble of fragments rather than a coherent article.
A garbled OCR fragment mentions billiards and a 90 era Beet Fie. It references names and phrases like Fy oy ume owls uye, Seyerded ee Shader, and Win Teenie with unclear context. The text suggests a sports note or column item about billiards, but the exact event, participants, and results are unclear.
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