Bon Marche Offers Summer Hat at Lowast Price
A local retail note promotes selecting a summer hat at a low price, featuring the Bon Marche store. The message highlights Phore 162 as part of the promotional push and invites customers to act.
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Newspaper
Geraldton Guardian
Location
Geraldton, Western Australia, Australia
Date
Sep 17, 1918
Page
4
A local retail note promotes selecting a summer hat at a low price, featuring the Bon Marche store. The message highlights Phore 162 as part of the promotional push and invites customers to act.
A fragment discusses oatmeal and beef aruging oats supply starch energy muscle and bone building while beef provides muscle tissue. notes rolling and preparation of oats, hydration, and digestion effects. Mentions porridge serving as nourishing meal versus beef and contrasts digestion and nourishment.
A quirky WWI note describes ferrets mobilized to France for the Somme battles, used to scent mines and disrupt enemy lines. The piece contrasts these wartime oddities with homeless parrots driven from owners and sold to dealers, while parrots and parrots’ handlers adapt to a disrupted world as the war reshapes animal life.
A historical note on street entertainers, their etiquette, and the social dynamics of performances. It discusses queuing, waiting turns, avoiding disruption, and the economics of busking, citing figures like Van Biene and David Paget as examples of careers moving from street to stage. It highlights the tension between outdoor street life and theater respectability.
A historian lists several veterans and soldiers aged well past typical service age cited in a Junto tribunal. Names include M. A. G. White of Halifax discharged aged seventy nine in 1915 after fighting in the trenches and officers or messengers from Leipzig and Colchester.
The Daily Sketch lauds Sir Douglas Hale as the most unconventional wield-marshal. He spurns shoulder-braces and ivory-hilted swords, preferring a cavalry sabre, a hunting bit, and a separate Lancers unit in his command.
The readable segments describe a chaotic mix of events including government actions on railway rates and coal mines, a charity gift to a war nurse, a violent house incident ending in a fatal shooting, remarks on anti German propaganda, and various public notices. Names and places are jumbled, but references to Australia, New South Wales, Sydney, and public inquiries appear, with a war and political context evident throughout.
The Mullewa Road Board held its November meeting with members Mewes J T Rene Whairman Patethorpey Stoks and ren Mitch present. Discussions covered office funding highway and railway reserve expenditures public telephone expansion road permits and local land compensation along with wage work progress and complaints about gate registrations and rates arrears.
An 1867 report describes a harsh execution procession from Geraldton to Botting Abbey for a murder case. It details the caravan of police, sheriffs, and witnesses, the transport of prisoners, and the solemn execution at the abbey with a large crowd observing. The piece also notes a later political item about the Trades Union Congress plan and a Labour party vote margin.
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