05 Feb 1908
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Newspaper
Geraldton Express
Location
Geraldton, Western Australia, Australia
Date
Feb 05, 1908
Page
1
Farm for sale detailing 200 acres at Everholt, 1000 acres at Lemse, and 220 acres with docks and wells. Includes kitchen, 2 rooms, wood and stove, iron, 4 stalls, tobacco poll, and option for farming plants. 900 acres listed as seat agricultural land in Beate. Further details from W. NORRIK in North Chapman.
Public notice that the author has taken over the business after rumours of the previous owner’s death. Wood supply available in any quantity with prompt delivery. Betjam wood stocked and ready to fulfill lengthy orders.
A Wanderer notes the ship Jiner's departure from Fremantle with touching farewells on board. Passengers include a Federal Senator, his wife, a champion fight weight pugilist, a wealthy brewer, a tank manager, a physician, and a Victorian newspaper proprietor as the mammoth floating hotel sails away.
A short notice touts Abrolhos Guano as a means to double farm wealth by using the product. It highlights the potential financial benefit to farmers from adopting the fertilizer.
A long excerpt describes loud American actors and a Ballarat trip with a fire brigade en route to competition. The wealthy brewer is mocked for wealth and fatness as the narrator imagines his brewery ambitions and the crowd reacts with hungry anticipation.
The soothing Champerlain's Cough Remedy is praised for pleasant taste and quick cures for colds croup and whooping cough. It contains no opium and is safe for babies as well as adults. For sale by all chemists and store keepers.
Notes mark new moon on February 2 at 4 26 pm first quarter February 9 noon 97 full moon February 17 5 5 am last quarter February 25 11 24 am. The passage portrays a calm scene with haying likened to a glass sea and wide town amusements including cricket among locals and rival games by Willards and others while travel ends with a sense of arrival and weariness at departure.
The Northern Times notes a Friday storm between Carnarvon and Wooramel with hail and variable rain. Callagiddy had a light shower. Mia Mia Pool dried up. Coorawarral reported 41 points of rain last Sunday, while Maba Jienba saw heavy fall. Sheep and cattle movements are described, with stock routes and grazing conditions outlined and farm activity noted for Nairn, Minyginew, and Wanda stations.
Promotes keeping Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Miarrahoea Remedy at home as a safeguard against sudden attacks. Urges immediate use when needed and notes availability from chemists and storekeepers.
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