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Newspaper
Geelong Advertiser
Location
Geelong, Victoria, Australia
Date
Jun 24, 1908
Page
2
Department ad lists items including prime bacon, matured cheese, Gruyere cheese, and lard. Mentions various cuts and weights with promotional pricing cues. Aimed at shoppers seeking pork products and dairy offerings in a retail section.
Thos Webb & Sons announce a great annual cash sale starting Monday June 2 offering nominal prices on world’s best china glass and silverware. Henry J Crawcook of Mercantile Chambers announces relocation to Little Malop and Yarra streets. Also advertised are corsets and a Geelong jewelry and optical goods shop with watches, clocks, and Paulodon optical spectacles.
Public reading lists show sections for notices including auctions births marriages and legal ads but the page text is fragmented and unreadable with many garbled headers. The available readable elements reference community notices and classified headings without coherent events or names.
A W Roberts Bargain Drapers advertises a display of fabric and hat bargains including cable serges in vivid colors, wide glace silk ribbons, white pique collars, chinoline hats, leather belts, silk elastic belts, and cashmere hose. It touts dramatic price cuts and window show highlights to attract shoppers.
The Broken Hill unionists threaten drastic action against the Industrial Disputes Act by urging a general strike across New South Wales. The Sydney Labor Council may push unions to paralyze government enforcement, a move seen as rebellion against state and national law.
A decisive NSW vote on replacing the Arbitration Act with a wage-board style system stirs fear of a broader strike. Victoria faces a railway stoppage risk, while NSW Government pressure tests its resolve. A debated list of Protectionist voting proves unreliable as Taft and Sherman vie in American politics, highlighting cross border influence on policy.
A fully attended Farmers Convention Entertainment Committee meeting was held in the Agricultural Society rooms with Alderman W Brownbill presiding. Sub committees reported satisfactory progress on arrangements and discussed further details of the event.
Geelong agendas cover council finances with a £110 offence revenue, a £60 vote recommendation, and farming appeal for convention funds. Agricultural classes enrollings proceed at Gordon iniew College with H J O Helin coordinating. Hawking to speak on aims. Geelong fire station rebuild and reservoir updates steer public works and plans for a new Kew station.
In Geelong West a paddock on Ballarat Road shows signs of a horse disappearance with the gate secured by a padlock and chain. The CN battery and other items are described in a garbled report alongside licensing updates, evangelist news, a Barwon Hall concert, Odd Fellows lodge events, and postal service exam notices.
A common spectre of rheumatic sufferers shows relief when Wolfe's Schnapps is used as guidance. The passage notes relief as the diarist observes the trouble be eased by the remedy.
Mr H House Commonwealth Meteorologi prepares to travel to Canada for a forthcoming international conference. Mr Wilkes of the New Zealand Government appears to have been engaged yesterday in vision tasks. An afternoon visit to Domeghy’s Lape Worl included witnessing protests over rope manufacture and a personal expression of delight at a lat saw. Janet le Clarke’s illness shows signs of improvement since Saturday.
The Government Statistician invites farmers to fill and return crop cards by June 5 to record sowing of wheat and oats and estimate areas sown and stocks of wheat flour. Notifications are distributed via the Trailways Department and mills to compile county-wide data.
A deputation led by Wic Vaughn requests a communication from Kirkpatriels concerning the murder of Constable Fine. Adelaide reports labor minister ADELAIDE and BP Assembly members explain the case and the cabinet will consider the demand amid questions of responsibility.
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