14 Oct 1916
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Newspaper
Gloucester Advocate
Location
Gloucester, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Oct 14, 1916
Page
1
A court in Blackpool deals with a servant girl jailed for six months for stealing £134 from a lady who kept sovereigns and notes in a desk. A wandering portable theatre is built for performances near the front as Verdun civic officials draft an elaborate condolence address for a widowed colleague.
A Yorkshire regiment sergeant recounts losing half his four and twenty prisoners to German shelling, managing to save only twelve. An Australian soldier in the Strand is seen wearing a rose on his slouch hat, a gesture met with mixed reactions. Medical notes discuss infection risks in trenches from gel and foot skin injuries, while Kinematograph Exhibitors’ Society proposes enemy-origin films to be shown in the UK during and after the war.
A garbled Gloucester Advocate item outlines a year 18 and related fate warning. Readable fragments reference legal or administrative steps with unclear specifics. The piece centers on consequences and procedures tied to an appeal or application process.
East of Paddocks adjoining Truck and Rail Yards. Competent men unload stock on arrival. Proceeds paid day after sale. Teperding Cattle and Horse Market. 28 application.
An Australian advertisement extols Tinan’s Ointment as a universal remedy for worms, breeding, and skin irritations in animals and humans. It claims a permanent cure observed over years by Mrs Harman and Mary Hantan, and notes sale through Faden McMillan in Sydney with a dramatic war anecdote about two boys saved at sea.
A battle narrative recalls a Fusiliers officer mortally wounded while urging his men to press a village crestward. Despite shrapnel and gas, the company stormed the trench line with the officer’s gesture guiding them to victory.
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