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Newspaper
Geraldton Guardian
Location
Geraldton, Western Australia, Australia
Date
Jul 26, 1924
Page
2
Elite Supply Co advertises the last days of a half year sale with summer stock arrivals. The catalog lists DRESA DEPARTMENT items including crepes, linens, cottons, and ladies underwear with varied sale prices and quantities. Names of fabrics and price points appear in an old time promotional style.
Local sale notice lists heavy grey twill work shirts, tweed trousers, women coats and costumes, men and boys sweaters, wool tweeds, towels, bath mats, and rugs with various prices. Includes linen items and garbled pricing woven throughout the ad.
The notice lists prices for Men's Cotton Tweed Trousers and an All Wool Coat Sweaters, with sale dates and miscellaneous items including trousers, coats, a white pastry, and a large towel. Names, places, and clear dates are partially obscured in the OCR.
An ad promising weekly earnings from five to twelve pounds urges students to use spare time over months. It touts a money back guarantee and claims a free introductory book, with offers to buy any sweets you make and guarantees on course completion.
An eccentric blurb describes Scott s Kia Ora Tea Rooms as an old established venue in Om Ten. It emphasizes cooperation, courteous service, and supplying the choicest products to foster mutual prosperity, presenting a promotional yet fragmented historical note.
Local brief notes cover a heavy hailstorm near Day Dawn and property changes including Mr Jos Johnston buying a shop opposite the Guardian office. Reports mention a fishing boat foundering, a court order for mental health care, a weather forecast for coastal districts, a prize quilt anecdote, a prominent death in Greenough aged 84, and various rainfall figures across locations. The Alberta home of the Prince of Wales in Calgary gains a garden makeover.
A wreck found near Drummond's Cove north of Geraldton is identified as belonging to the Flora dorm. The 14 year old son of Jack Ackerstrom reports the boat is linked to the crew including Mr Frank Linthorne. A letter to the editor seeks funds for the grieving family. Shipping updates note Minderoo Minderoo and other vessels facing delays due to rough seas, with cargoes of flour and general goods awaiting port conditions.
A Geraldton Protesant Federation organized carnival raised funds for the Protestant Children's Home. Attendees praised the decorated stalls, with notable displays by the Meeraneey Street Command, and a balance of social and musical entertainments. Officials announced efforts to reduce debt and possibly establish a boys home, while praising the women volunteers and local churches for unity and support.
The marriage of Miss Hilde May Payne eldest daughter of Mr and Mrs William Payne of Coolmon Farm Perenjori to Mr Arthur A Nairn of Perenjori was celebrated on July 17 at Pam The Rev Hurst officiated The ceremony united a large local gathering with bridesmaids Florence Payne and Lillie Atkinson and best man John Wayne The newlyweds left by the 4:30 pm train for a southward honeymoon amid confetti showers and hearty good wishes from the townsfolk.
A fragmented stock and station note refers to five bogies and a person named O Deed or similar, with unclear context. The readable part implies railway stock movement or maintenance entries, mentioning bogies and a person, possibly an operating clerk. Further details are unreadable due to OCR damage.
Fragmentary text mentions grain bar prices around £4 176 and £4 Ge, references to Osten Cha De and Osta One Meat waves, and scattered phrases about domme, fag, and surfar. Content is garbled with no clear event or outcome to summarize.
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