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Newspaper
Geraldton Guardian
Location
Geraldton, Western Australia, Australia
Date
Dec 11, 1923
Page
1
The advertisement touts a large Xmas underselling sale at The Big Store with discounted towels, muslins, sateen, pillowcases, gloves, hosiery, and crepe fabrics. It highlights numerous items priced from 1/0 to 14/6 and emphasizes English-made stockings and dress materials.
Toy catalog lists boars and cats with mixed prices and odd fractions. The garbled entry mentions animals in toy form, with fractions like 7/6 and 2a, and unclear annotations such as 97 O71. The readable bits hint at a playful or misscanned shopping note with no clear sale details.
The ad lists children's items including handkerchiefs, chief designs, Xmas cards with envelopes, tool sets for boys, toy reins, wooder paper, Dunlop phy items, and celluloid baby dolls priced 1/6 to 9/20. The fragmented copy reflects a seasonal catalogue style with varied product names and prices.
A dense late era storefront ad promotes children's tea sets from 1 shilling to 1 shilling 3 pence, school pads, watches at 50 shillings, and a wide range of shoes, suits, hats, and shirts. It touts low prices, pay dividends weekly, and urges customers to shop for quality at reduced rates across departments, including groceries and clothing.
Report fragment covers Geraldton versus Mercantiles cricket with scores and innings details, then shifts to a London court case about a valet and a deceitful age misrepresentation, including a 1905 English marriage and a 68 year old wife.
The British Olympic Association plans a versatile pentathlon for the 1924 Games. Competitors will run a mile, swim 263 yards, ride five miles, hunt a course, and shoot a revolver. Training centres are expanding in several cities.
J T Marsden announces he has acquired the Mar ime Btoren business from W C Findlay and becomes sole agent for the W A Gines Machine Yard on Guicanot Street Fremant Settlement delivery of all machines.
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