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Newspaper
Geraldton Express
Location
Geraldton, Western Australia, Australia
Date
Oct 28, 1910
Page
4
A parent describes severe itching in a baby and lengthy suffering before using Cuticura. After trying various methods without success, the user reports relief following use of a named salve or treatment. The text mentions costs and a friend recommending a specific remedy.
Correspondence discusses notes on player averages and trophies, the Railway C C resisting club reports, and a general meeting called for August to address matters. The meeting failed to form a quorum while officials and cricketers observed, prompting plans to reconvene and tackle administrative issues.
In a letter to the paper Herman Kretchmar as Hon. Secretary of the N.D.C.A. calls on Geraldton cricketers to wake up and adopt constitutional methods. He suggests the annual general meeting be convened to elect officers for the ensuing year and offers committee support to amend notices to reflect correct points.
P Donnelley plans to depart Dairy Creek for Mingenew around mid month with 2000 wethers and 1000 ewes. Deerawarrah ships 3000 mixed sheep to port aboard the Gorgon and Koombana. Mardathuna Ela Valla begin shearing. Whitlock and Co report shipments and bales of greasy wool to various accounts. Redmond to leave Karratha end of September with 4000 mixed sheep en route to Mingenew. Carey Downs Station resumes general shearing on the Upper Gascoyre. Doorawarra cut out after six and a half weeks with 15 paddocks, 42,454 sheep for 764 bales. peak day 1026 sheep, record tally 208 by H Burgess. Adams reports Mia Mia shearing totals 56,787 Willambury sheep for 70 percent bales, lambs averaging high per head. Over 44,000 sheep shorn at Mia Mia, including 7,725 lambs. Two station horse teams carting. Nor’ West Times notes overall wool transport nearing 800 tales by wool in.
A humorous reader puzzle asks how many apples Eve and Adam ate. Various incorrect totals are suggested, from 10 to 90, then 168 and 893. The piece pushes toward a final, albeit fantastical, solution involving large numbers and playful misdirection about the original human pair.
Fragmented OCR text notes Susie Smith aged daughter of Mrs Bath of Pennant Street Parramatta formerly of Fpping. Mentions a recipe for young children involving a powder, water, and sugar with instructions about vowels and mixing steps. Content unclear and partially garbled.
Older children are advised to pour boiling water over biscuits as they are and let them sit under a saucer over a cap or basin until they swell. The biscuits can be eaten soaked or whole later, at home or school, and are described as a fattening strengthening diet for all children.
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