06 Nov 1916
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Newspaper
Geraldton Express
Location
Geraldton, Western Australia, Australia
Date
Nov 06, 1916
Page
1
An elderly man starts with a slim investment and a bold ad push. He turns eighty cents into dollars daily, expands to a regular corner store, and fills the windows with his best goods. The town keys to his success are aggressive advertising and persistent effort.
Town residents report difficulty obtaining newspapers from local sales bays and offices. Messrs le Lucey J Ryan Geo Laing J Ghurke J Rowe E Snell Gen Rosam Co Blight Bros Miss Richey and Geraldton Express office are named as points for acquiring papers.
An OCR fragment lists Ideal 81 and Unsweetened Milk as everyday household milk products. No verifiable events or dates are provided. further readable context is limited to product names and a general mention of milk items.
Market reports note weekly stock quality and prices with Dalgety and Co adapting evaluations. Listings appear garbled but reference wool and sheep goods, quality bands, and varying prices.
Fielding reports on weekly stock prices with notes on demand and market thinning. Prices for hogs and lambs vary, with higher values for prime stock. meat buyers show strong competition, while late-week supplies remain tight and prices volatile. The report covers sheep, hogs, and cattle trends, with regional price contrasts.
Fragmentary OCR shows multiple station references and times across Western Australian Government Railways. The garbled text lists stations such as Perth Mullowy Wonon Hills Walkaway and various weekday and weekend timings, with unclear credits and anomalies throughout.
The text touts a cough remedy labeled Hean's Essence claiming a pint mix can be made quickly with 2s worth of essence. Sir Rider Haggard, visiting Australia, notes he is taking Hean's Essence abroad and will promote its merits upon return to England.
An unclear historical OCR item discusses quiet monks and relics tied to a site in Albania and religious orders. Names, dates, and places are distorted, but the piece hints at a narrative about abbeys, monastic life, and relics amid uncertain details.
The long garbled OCR text appears to reference war cables and diverse place names, people, and organizations, with scattered phrases about signals, ports, houses, and cities such as Pomona, Vienna, and Germania. It hints at a chaotic wartime communication scene without coherent events or dates.
A distorted text fragment references pie making, a hut with mantles, and unclear phrases about unions or nations. Several names and places are unreadable, with no coherent event or identifiable entities. The item lacks sufficient readable facts to identify a concrete news item.
A garbled OCR text fragment lists multiple daily schedules and prices for various services and locations. It references mon, tue, wed, thu, fri times such as 10 a.m., 1.30 p.m., 3 p.m., and 7.45 a.m. It mentions schools, teachers, shipments, and several place names, indicating a busy timetable or schedule ledger with numerous entries.
Fragmentary text describes celestial timing for lunar phases and quarter events, mentioning names and places in a garbled OCR style. The readable bits imply a historical note on moon phases associated with a region and dates, but precise details are unclear.
Districtwide funeral notices report services conducted in multiple localities with families observing services and burials for residents. Names of deceased are not included in the readable fragments but the movement shows broad community observance and scheduling around local religious and civic facilities.
The London Directory promotes an annual commercial guide with manufacturers and dealers in Lao an and suburbs, export merchants, steamship lines, and provincial trade notices. It advertises portals for ordering the edition and lists contact details for The London Directory Co. Ltd at 29 Abchurch Lane, London.
European Agency offers low cash prices on Britsh and Continental goods including hooks and stationery, hardware, drapery, jewellery, and more with trade discounts and special quotations. Sample cases from £40 upwards. Perambulators in many shapes with cradle, collapsible designs for trains, stock from W. Gimpel and Geraldton Express items from various town agents. Wolfe’s Schnapps also advertised.
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