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Newspaper
Gloucester Advocate
Location
Gloucester, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Oct 29, 1929
Page
3
A discussion on road dangers from wandering cows and broken bottles. It argues motorists injured by cattle should not blame the council, noting police duties to handle drunks and the limits of authority over livestock on roads. It questions legal responsibility for preventing cow strays and accidents.
Douglas Waddell and Company report a well stocked vegetable market with scarce poultry and high prices. Best roosters top at 1 pound per pair, cabbages 3 shillings to 18 pence a dozen, lemons 1 shilling per dozen, oranges 1 shilling 3 pence per dozen. Next sale Friday November 1 with about 500 pigs penned and strong buyer activity. Prime heavy pigs at 17 shillings 0 pence, baconets to 9 pounds 6 pence, heavy porkers to 7 pounds, large suckers to 26 shillings, other weights down to 12 shillings.
Seventeen boys are taking a course in cooking in a Buffaleigh school. The message hints at a forthcoming event and includes garbled phrases that obscure details but confirm the class is underway.
The letter recalls the ship Midlothian pioneers who settled early Australia and asks for reprinting dates of poetry first published in the Grafton Examiner around September 1879. It notes survivors among Cameron descendants and other families linked to Glen Innes and Manning River, reflecting on their faith, duties, and lasting memory.
Aboard the Good Ship Midlothian voyaging from Spizort Bay the narrator recalls farewell to native lands and fathers, the Highland departure, and the voyage to Australian wilds. The tale recounts fever aboard, funerals at sea, and grief of families as the ship sails toward distant shores.
A sprawling OCR fragment recalls a voyage across the ocean with a somber mood. It paints Sydney as a small town, notes prison chains of exiled English gangs, and contrasts hardship with longing for freedom. The text wanders through archaic diction, hints at historical poverty, Beltaine, and distant Queniahin, ending amid ritual prayer and shared fate.
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