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Newspaper
Gloucester Advocate
Location
Gloucester, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Mar 29, 1913
Page
6
The article reports on method for starting a lime pit stack and firing it, including circle layout, log spacing, wood fuels, kindling, and coal layering. It describes building a cone shaped stack with logs, wood, pine kindling, coal, and stone, then lighting with kerosene. It notes daily checks on clay coverings and references a large stack turning successfully.
Mr JK Tindale, editor of the Watchman, writes from Queensland about years of illness and diarrhoea treated by Chamberlain’s Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy. He urges others to try the remedy, claiming quick relief and endorsing its sale everywhere. A note adds a taxi service selling three gallons of petrol daily.
The document outlines freight charges for animal shipments by rail, listing rate schedules for cattle, oxen, horses, calves, sheep, and pigs. It defines per mile charges, minimums for single and multiple animal loads, and rules for excess numbers or space fed beyond limits, with the Com missioner reserving discretion on how large animals are billed. The text covers truck, half truck, and full truck rates, and notes calves over six months are charged like cows or oxen.
An undersigned supplier in Gloucester announces fresh milk shipments from Sy with twice daily deliveries. Emphasizes utmost cleanliness and invites orders from customers.
Alf King, a painter, signwriter, and paperhanger, is recorded as working throughout Glotchyter and Dungog districts. The notice directs residents to expect prompt attention and awaits further instruction.
The notice touts fruit products and confectionery at Sydney prices with dubious claims of cleanliness and quality. It mentions bread as staff of life and references various stray terms and non sequiturs, suggesting a damaged OCR fragment from a historical ad page.
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