13 Nov 1916
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Newspaper
Geraldton Express
Location
Geraldton, Western Australia, Australia
Date
Nov 13, 1916
Page
1
Fragmentary OCR item notes Wolfe's Siency apps and a referenced purcey spirit dishilled with ox rumes. The readable text is incomplete and uncontextualized, offering only scattered phrases about a drink or recipe, lacking names, places, dates, or clear event.
The 1916 post office and buyers directories from H. Wise & Co. Ltd. claim wide circulation in Western Australia Victoria New South Wales Tasmania Queensland and New Zealand and even Britain and America. The set includes Perth Fremantle Kalgoorlie Boulder Northam and other towns with street listings and business directories. The firm touts accuracy and reliability across national and state directories issued in early 1916.
The operation expresses assistance from four town agents including TH de Licey Ryan Geo Laing J G Clarke E Snell Geo Rosamand C O and Misa Richey to secure the desired item.
A letter dated 17 October from W. F. Adbock and Co of Melbourne discusses national shipments of copper ore and mica near Northampton in 1888. It notes high grade copper in the area and potential profits from mica extraction, with sample results and price ranges for various mica sizes. The writer seeks local interest and offers to supply materials for electrical uses, urging local labor and mining activity.
A brief promotional line touting Wolfe's Schnapps as essential for households, asserting usefulness and presence in every home.
A September postcard from Private William Farrell, age under 18, reports being captured near the German trenches and held at Dulmen, West Germany, with vivid but non-graphic details of trench warfare, shelling, and hospital transfer. He writes from a German prison camp area and reflects on the hardship and longing for home.
A reader recalls pimples on Thuleson’s leg turning into eczema with itching and hair loss on the scalp. They report Cuticura Soap and Ointment soothed irritation and, within a fortnight, the eczema disappeared. The notice promotes Cuticura products via Towne & Co. Sydney, N.S.
Nov. dispatches describe Roumanians recapturing Rasova in the Pobrudja and Russian forces pushing in the Vossey and Mirna Valleys. German concentrations on Bucharest route, refugees moving toward Northern Dohendra, and artillery activity across multiple fronts. In New York, presidential election tallies show Wilkinson leading with 257 electoral votes to Hughes 217.
Mail time table revised for Tu Navy mail routes with closing times at Geraldton Post Office for the undermentioned places. specific times to be observed.
Weather timetable lists sunrise and sunset times with multiple place names and dates. It includes entries such as Perth Line Chesday and Friday timings, and various scattered names like Roslyn Farm Criddle Owen and Bert Chapman Farm. The fragmented OCR betrays inconsistent hours and days across locations.
A terse OCR fragment lists terms like moon and new moon along with numbers and abbreviations, indicating a calendrical or celestial reference. The readable content centers on lunar phases and related timing without clear events or names.
London Directory enables traders worldwide to contact manufacturers and dealers in each goods class. It lists export merchants, colonial and foreign markets, steamship lines, and provincial trade notices from UK towns and industrial centers. Copies sent freight paid on postal order. advertising options from £3.
European Agency advertises rapid cash purchases at low prices for British and Continental goods including books, leatherware, hardware, cycles, cars, drapery, and more with trade discounts and sample cases from £10. Notices include consignments of produce, and a call for rapid progressive go-carts and ambulators. Multiple agents listed for Geraldton Express distribution.
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