This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 8 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Gloucester Advocate
Location
Gloucester, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Apr 24, 1920
Page
1
A scrambled notice from John Bee and Sydney Bew Sparke outlines reordering trucks and arranging stock sales. It urges owners to schedule consignments, secure transport, and avoid market glut, promising better deposit refunds if trucks are unused.
Commercial Abboth and Co notes a dull market with a small buyer turnout and many cattle, hogs, and pigs sold at uneven prices. Highlights include heifers at £8 from B. Gresham, bullocks at £45, and baconers showing strength late, with porkers reaching high averages and improved prospects for well conditioned pigs.
Large yarding of fat cattle at Maitland with cows and steers in medium condition and prime bullocks leading activity. Prices ranged from about £7 13s 6d to £28 17s 6d for prime bulls, with various consignors including Sparke’s Sales, M. Smith, J. Reynolds, and G. Moore offering multiple lots. Quality and demand remain firm across grades, with higher end weighty bulls fetching top bids amid brisk competition.
A field of dairy cattle and fat calves is listed with numerous names such as J Enright, Tom Hannan, Smith Bros, Collard and Gordon. Prices range from a few shillings to several pounds per head, with cows, heifers, and calves catalogued across the sale day and yarding notes.
The article surveys the French meat trade and British imperial contracts during the war period, noting 1 033 560 cattle carcases exported, lamb and mutton shortages, and beef shipments led by Queensland. It discusses market resistance, drought impacts, rising costs, and tentative forecasts as the end of war contracts looms.
The colonial market reported prices for beef and mutton drifting, with brisk foreign demand and cheaper frozen meal imports easing late rates. Homebush figures show sheep and cattle sales rising year over year, while a local joke about Gundurimba’s white elephant traction engine adds a light note to the page.
A long critical piece argues the anti prohibition movement risks erasing art and culture by banning alcohol in theatre and cinema. It cites Oliver Cromwell era suppression, celebrates wine and drama, and warns of societal harm if abstinence prevails. A Sydney Easter visit prompts political reflection among Northern residents. Southern retailers report high prices, while Aquor trades workers vote to oppose prohibition.
A scrambled OCR style shopping list shows prices for groceries and household items. Items include cocoa, coffee, tea, herring, salmon, dates, soap, baking powder, jam, peas, and soap from various brands with unit prices denoted in pre decimal currency. The entry reads like a market price board with multiple vendors and product names.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.