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Newspaper
Geraldton Guardian
Location
Geraldton, Western Australia, Australia
Date
Jan 21, 1919
Page
2
Sale prices advertised for slightly soiled blouses and dresses in voile and meslin fabrics. Ladies' two piece frocks in voile and check chambric with redwood tone. Double width satin lace or glace fabric priced per yard. Hand-woven cloth and inch wide items offered at reduced rates.
An early 1919 fragment references January bargains and celestial phases. It mentions camps, demolitions, reinforcements, and volunteers tied to moon phases. Names of months and quarters appear jumbled, with unclear local affiliations or events.
Fragmented report lists events in Geraliton area including a Tuesday trench comfort meeting for 44th Battalion, local railway and heritage notes, a rifle club gathering, weather readings for Geraldton, and various community updates amid wartime wartime era activities and social notices.
A correspondent reports a death at Irwin House where Mrs Bol Joho son died after heart failure following a difficult week. The English widow had lived in Austin seven years. Funeral wreaths came from many locals. A war smothered member Jack Slofer attended the hulk’s remnants. A local tire programme featured Letty Stoke, Daley Sloper recitations, and performances by Amy Dowden and Fred Waldeck. The event ended with a vocal duet and a social dance enjoyed by the community.
The Victorian River and Water Supply Committee faced a storm of protest as farmers push for drought relief by sending water through channels to save homes. Officials urged growers to build large tanks to store a season’s supply, offering water at no extra cost beyond annual rates. Some farmers complied. others resisted, risking orders to take action.
A wartime order denounces 199th and Sri BatalSon brigades for desertion and betrayal. It calls for stripping officers and soldiers of rank, banning the 199th, and consigning those deemed unworthy to dishonor. The proclamation ends with curses on traitors and praise for true defenders of Italy.
Hon James Hickey after meeting Perth minister reports on Buller River dam project. Engineer in chief and Oldham visited land. start of works contingent on estimates and funding. If winter rains hinder, dam may be raised or bank protected. diverting water deemed impracticable. Officials urged patience. Geraldton residents urged to avoid urgent petitions until advised.
An Observer report from the war era notes total output of the Royal British Kingdom in 1818, detailing ships of 124 LATHALL tons and a Clyde yard building 70 247 ton ships. It highlights the Hood as the largest British mystery ship and mentions the Rodney as a major, incomplete class. The Hood remains the only vessel to be completed while Rodney’s dimensions and completion status are uncertain.
East Chapman notes report harvest operations shifted to ditch work with farmers hoping for thunder storms this year. Crops on stook are fair to good with about 13 bushes per acre and haying season progressing slowly. Rain totals for the past year reached 2150 points, 14 inches less than 1917’s 3543 points.
In Perth on January 24 inquiries at the Wheat Scheme office showed arrangements completed for payment of the guarantee amounting to 1s 4d, less freight, on the wheat in the 1918 19 pool. Payments will be available on Friday next. The payment total involved is £14,000,000.
A quarantine bulletin lists patient conditions at Woodman's Point station with categories including dangerously ill and seriously ill among soldiers and civilians. Entries show six soldiers seriously ill and several convalescents, reflecting a strained medical response to the outbreak.
Chief Quarantine Gilow says there are influenza cases aboard the Saxon and War Ostrich after arrivals on board these vessels. Both boats are quarantined and no movements are known at present.
A weary, humorous reminiscence from a soldier detailing barber misadventures in a small village. He recalls a first loaned barber from Maine who boasted skill but offered a rough neck shave, followed by a bungled later cut by a shopless billet barber. The piece notes diverse barbers from fields to towns and their varied skills.
Fragmentary excerpt discusses Germany as imitator, referencing notions of invention and copying. It mentions Totten and machinery, with garbled phrases about engines and imports from the United States, signaling a historic critique of German industrial imitation.
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