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Newspaper
Geraldton Express
Location
Geraldton, Western Australia, Australia
Date
Jun 07, 1915
Page
4
Names and kin details of West Australians among 25th casualty list with ranks and relatives listed. Auction results for lots of straw chait supplies show prices and market tone. Market notes mention prices per ton and railway freight context.
A long, fragmented manual style passage describes cleaning, fabric care, knotting, and repairs. It mentions removing iron from linen, making tags with sealing wax, renewing handles on old utensils, and using resin to fix tool handles. It references painting, decoupage, and garden or kitchen tasks with various named figures and stray lines.
The notice asserts advertising boosts growth, revives dull shops, saves faltering ventures, and rescues failing enterprises. It cites The Geraldton Express as a vehicle for reaching customers, with distribution via listed brokers.
Market report from Dalgety notes dull London wheat trade and quiet Adelaide milling parcels. Melbourne figures show tiles price ranges and lagged sales. Berlin and metropolitan catalogues indicate light supplies, intense competition, and modest advances for lag to prime wheat. Prices cited include around £11 10s to £15 for certain grades, with varied averages and truck movements noted through the week.
A garbled cooking page mixes recipes and household tips with brand mentions, listing ingredients like tea, milk, and bread, plus long, unclear instruction sequences. It blends culinary steps with stray product names and advertisements, creating a chaotic snapshot of a busy domestic page.
Mail schedule details appear for multiple lines including Perth Line and Northamton Line with arrival times and days, listing various places and unclear spellings. The fragmentary OCR provides dates and partial route names but lacks coherent destinations or officials.
The article describes Adelaide University Junior Public School results and high honors across multiple Australian institutions. It highlights 26 distinctions including certificates from Adelaide University, Maya Academy, Trinity College and Bath Phonetic Institute. Mentioned are top scores in Arithmetic French Geography and music while noting extensive senior and junior honors and preparatory certificates. The piece also covers a college building described as eminently notable overlooking the Bay with Gothic turrets and a Tudor tower. It lists details on classes, fees, and instruction in shorthand, typewriting, music, drawing, and various preparatory programs under Rev Moturr.
Nurse Etthell of the Maternity Home on Gregory Street Geraldton announces lower rent terms for two months due to a seasonal low in spirits. She invites inquiries from agricultural district lubes about affordable arrangements and mentions modern conveniences and a mineus fount as part of the offer.
European Agency offers wholesale indenta at lowest cash prices for British and Continental goods including books stationery boots leather chemicals and druggists sundries china earthenware glassware cycles motor cars and accessories drapery millinery fancy goods hardware machinery metals jewellery plate watches photographic and optical goods provisions oilmen stores with trade discounts and special quotations on demand sample cases from £210 upwards.
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