18 May 1928
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Newspaper
Gloucester Advocate
Location
Gloucester, New South Wales, Australia
Date
May 18, 1928
Page
1
In New Shades, Paney Stripe and Cheek Design wool sweaters in plain colours and fancy designs with a front of American Roll Mens Tailored Overcoats in green and boys overcoats in gabardine and wool tweeds. Also boys all wool button fronts in navy grey mole fawn brown and heather. These are offered at special.
NAWKEYE recalls a past era around Candletown with the Union Inn hotel, bootmaker Geo Reynolds, and local figures like Jack Coulter. The piece blends vivid anecdotes of spree, misfortune, village feuds, and long-vanished customs, noting the inn’s numerous owners and the era’s looser laws and curious events.
The old Ballroom door became a target for gun practice as the Meenie passed hands and Scottish blacksmith started a renowned Manning River smithy. Orders for 70 ploughs flowed in, with rival steamers racing for "first in." The town thrived with trade, a wharf was built, and beef and eels featured in daily life. Horace Dean, born in America to English parents, spoke to electors but was briefly unseated for naturalisation issues.
In Capetown a baby born in Wryheld weighs a record amount in gold. Miss Saran Slater, who died in Australia last August leaving £90,000 to nephews and nieces, has no siblings with children. The birth marks the first such in thirty years for the families involved.
A brief note describes Woods' Great Peppermint Cure as a remedy for coughs colds and influenza. It highlights its use as a first aid aid in the period remedy market and references common ailments of the era.
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