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Newspaper
Geraldton Express
Location
Geraldton, Western Australia, Australia
Date
Jun 22, 1906
Page
4
A distressed agricultural note laments drought across the district with fifty thousand lambs at risk. It argues rain is essential to save flocks, feed broad acre crops, and spare families from poverty as northern lands suffer bare, parched fields and dying livestock. The piece mentions the Gascorine region and tensions over moisture.
An evocative line promising relief from coughing and aches via peppermint inspired medicine. The fragment hints at a period medical ad style, aiming to reassure readers about quick, simple remedies.
From Our Own Correspondent Parker prospecting near the Sandstone group uncovers a rich specimen with visible gold in the cement. Williams, Sandstone underground manager, notes another 267 in the same claim. Parker continues work as leases multiply two miles out, though most claims remain alluvial with little found beyond the prospect. A battery treated 140 tons returning 30.7 dwt per ton, while 0 tons more yielded about 30.8 dwt.
An older advert warns that colds often settle in the lungs causing pneumonia or consumption. It promotes Cham-Verlain's Co Remedy to cure colds quickly and prevent lung trouble, with a sales note for W. B. Pallowfield in Geraldton and Woods' Great Peppermat Cure priced at 1s 6d.
A field note describes several gold bearing lodes and leases south of town including a 401L wide cement lode at Bryant with a return over Mant Ayr. Saunders and mate report 15d tons from a nearby crush, total 20 tons. Adjoining claims by Moses O’Donnell and others on Howe’s Tract are sinking, with 18 acres and V-acre licenses. Welcome syndicate north-west of town shows 4.5 to 7 ft reef with good gold. a 50 Mile crush yielded 1 or 3 dwt per ton.
A rich shoot in Alliance is valued at about 407 per ton while another in Revenue mine at 8 Mile yielded 2500? in gold from 128th of stone. Marmont owners Jackson and Ryan bought the Weld Range battery from W Palmer, a 20 head plant to be moved to Mee Katharra. The Marmont lode at 90s level runs 16 to 30 feet wide with high gold value. two winzes reach water level as they plan a new shaft. A caretaker will guard the battery area amid recent theft attempts, including missing drills and buggy tracks seen by Captain Jackson.
A Brooklyn mother details her two year old son's battle with chronic eczema. After hospital doctors deemed it incurable, she used Cuticura Soap Ointment and Resolvent. Within weeks the sores vanished and stayed gone for over two years. She credits the regimen with a complete permanent cure and urges others to try Cuticura.
A short verse from the Military Mail recalling British troops in distant campaigns. It speaks of valor, twilight battles, and comradeship among soldiers who faced death together in a distant land, with references to England, purple heather, and a trooper’s words.
The notice lists common liver trouble symptoms such as sickness dull headaches drowsiness and yellowing of the skin and eyes. A Balmain Sydney resident James Weir touts Bile Beans as a permanent cure after weeks of use and urges readers to obtain the product from medicine vendors, warning against substitutes.
Reports from Derby state Nararla Hills north east of Derby yield satisfactory progress with scheelite alongside silver lead and copper. Adelaide markets stay excited as new prospecting companies form while share prices in existing syndicates ease. Two men trek overland from Broken Hills to Kimberley on bicycles amid field news.
Daily 6:00 am Geraldton to Perth with Friday 8:00 pm special mail. Mixed trains Geraldton to Cue Monday Tuesday Thursday 6:25 am and Friday 7:45 am and Saturday 8:00 am and Tuesdays 11:50 pm. Geraldton to Walkaway mixed 6:00 am daily Saturday 3:40 pm and Friday 8:00 pm plus 10:10 pm daily except Friday. Geraldton to Northampton mixed Monday Wednesday 9:00 am and Friday 2:30 pm and Saturday 5:00 pm.
The editor invites letters from all parts of the district covering agricultural and pastoral notes mining news public and social events marriages and deaths meetings of public bodies or cricket matches and other items of general interest Names must be spelled clearly and the writer should include name and address for good faith.
An ad claims Chamberlains Stomach and Liver Tablets offer a harmless purgative to cleanse the system, expel poisons, relieve constipation and headaches. Sold by W. B. Fallowfield on Marine Terrace, Geraldton, with the Geraldton Express as the publisher.
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