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Newspaper
Geraldton Guardian
Location
Geraldton, Western Australia, Australia
Date
Dec 06, 1923
Page
2
A cluttered market report covers textiles and fabrics, noting items like White Flannel, Stripe Shirting, and Belgian Ticking with various prices and lengths. It also reports on car showroom impressions, West Australian Industries exhibits, local book publishing, a death notice, school exams, and council discussions, all framed in a bustling postwar local life snapshot.
Notices recount memorials for John Smith and several relatives with lines of tribute from family members. The notices mark December dates in the 1910s and 1920s, listing family signatures and remembrance phrases. The page also notes local general items and a feature on seaweed cultivation in a distant country.
A fragmented advertisement lists items such as tea towels lace curtains pillowcases curtain nets and cambric with prices per yard and length options. It mentions discounts and odd lengths and promotes women’s garments including bloomers and socks.
Fragmentary OCR notes show references to Moida, Cope, KIMONAS, and Seshmere Bathing Costumes with a date 3/11 and lines about aprons and bargain prices. The readable items suggest an advertisement snippet listing bathing costumes and Lauren Sewy Binek Batson aprons with cheap lines.
A fragmentary ad highlights ladies cheeck Zephyr house frocks listed with values and early purchase advice. Spotted print home frocks priced 5/11, crepe veils and vaile frocks dated 10/4 to 10/6 appear along with cropped rocks and mysterious net mentions.
The Municipal Council met to consider levying rates for the coming year and approved a 3d reduction. The Finance Committee proposed 2d off the rate in the pound if current variations remained, with 2d on loan rate, 4d on health, and 1d on urban, totaling 3s 4d per £. Valuations to stay unchanged, and rates to be levied. Meetings set, temporary office to be opened in Carnamah, and preparations for next steps discussed. The town board’s first meeting noted anticipated income around £1723, with plans to fix a moderate unimproved value rate and proceed with local bonds for construction. The grand tram experiment noted, with positive expectations for future performances.
The case details violent episodes and threats by Frederick Overheu toward his wife Mrs. Overheu dating back to 1912, including a 3 am assault and a murder threat. The wife testified of repeated cruelty, locked verandah quarrels, and past threats with a knife, leading to a decree nisi in Perth with custody concerns and past migrations between Geraldton, the Murchison, Melbourne, and Perth.
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