Stroud Agency Appointed Gloucester Advocate Agent
Stroud Agency No. F. J. Callow has been appointed agent for the Gloucester Advocate in Stroud.
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Newspaper
Gloucester Advocate
Location
Gloucester, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Feb 15, 1913
Page
3
Stroud Agency No. F. J. Callow has been appointed agent for the Gloucester Advocate in Stroud.
A fire at a Pillar cinema in Spain during a Sunday screening caused panic after a film burst into flames. Six to eight children reportedly died from trampling or suffocation while many others were injured. Police arrested the operator and cinema owner as the crowd gathered in Bilbao.
The Rev. Percy Broughton of London, a Baffin's Land missionary, trekked barefoot for two days across an icefield to reach an Eskimo village after losing his way. His feet froze. he arrived on hands and knees unconscious. In Lac Harban the station cook amputated the toes of his right foot. Two more operations followed after transfer to the missionary ship. After six weeks he proceeded to Sydney by the steamer Boethic.
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Mr G Oehlmann of Goombungee Queensland reports severe stomach pains from one dose and says Chamberlain's Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy relieves the pain after a single dose with no ill effects. He recommends the remedy and notes it is sold everywhere.
In a trial described as a landmark, a Pennsylvania widow was found guilty of poisoning her husband, with prosecutors alleging a plot tied to a suspected scheme involving her lover Edward Guenkel and her romantic liaison with William Trost. Trost died shortly after expressing fears about the marriage. Guenkel was arrested for aiding and abetting the condemned woman.
Waugh and Josephson, general engineers in Sydney, advertise a full dairy supply line. They stock milk and cream cans, Danish steel cans and milk buckets, strainers, and Babcock testers for herd testing. Prices listed for cream testers at 6d each. request price lists by mail.
Chinese scholars dissatisfied with the ideographic script work to create an alphabet. Chow Hi Chun and colleagues report a forty two character system with twenty three vowels and nineteen consonants drawn from Greek Russian Latin and Chinese sources.
An advertisement quotes Mrs. M. E. Hanna and Mr. Molloy praising Chamberlain's Cough Remedy for relief from head folds and colds. The ad claims immediate improvement after use and states the remedy is sold everywhere.
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