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Newspaper
Gloucester Advocate
Location
Gloucester, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Sep 23, 1916
Page
3
The late Pope Leo XI extols that workers excel when engaged in their own or familiar tasks. He emphasizes learning to love the poll that rewards labor with not only sustenance but abundance of well earned goods for those dear to them.
The article discusses choosing suitable motive power for postwar industrial development in the Commonwealth. It notes water and fuel supply, varied business needs, and compares steam engines and a Crosatey Gas Plant as potential solutions. Watch & Torr Passin Engineers and Boilermakers in Sydney offer comprehensive stocks of gas and engines and invite inquiries.
A rousing pitch extols Boden Brothers cars as symbols of goodwill and value. The ad links ownership with community favor, praising Dodge Brothers for quality and reliability and promising high trade value and long lasting satisfaction. It emphasizes widespread positive sentiment and customer confidence in the brand.
A 1940s style fruit parcel offers Prime New Seasons Mildura Currants Ralsina Sultana and Evaporated Apricots and Peaches in syrup. It lists sizes in 6 lb units and mentions Evaporated Apples and Pears in syrup in large tins.
Carlton and Trenbath report a brisk cattle sale with strong demand and steady rates. Abbott & Co describe a yarding of cattle sold to good buyers with cows at £7 to £7 2s, cows with calfs around £10, bulls to £4 8s 6d, heifers near £4 10s, and Devon heifers sold privately at satisfactory figures.
Large crowd at Camphall yard for Maitland Fat Cattle sale saw bullocks mostly fair to good and cows fair to good, with prices varied. Best bullocks reached about £20, many cattle traded near £12 to £18, several cows and calves appearing in mixed consignments from multiple sellers including Sparke, Alenan dor Bros, Yeo Roberts, Reynolds, Fulton, Shannon, Osmond, and others.
A historical listing shows numerous cattle entries with prices and seller names. Items include cows with calves, heifers, steers, and poddies alongside writeups of buyers and auction times. Names such as W Chilny M Raun A Frnsie and W Lowrey appear among lots with varied bids and weights. The fragment resembles a midwestern livestock sale record with multiple lots and monetary values in pounds shillings and pence.
Friday sale drew strong turnout of local and external buyers with high prices for good dairy stock and young cattle. Prices for cows and calves set records, with numerous lots selling well from £4 to £14 18s and various steers, heifers, and bullocks realizing brisk demand and satisfactory returns.
Rackfatters quote prime weights from 6s to 7s plus higher rates for extra prime stock. Prime weights range from £4 4s to £5 3s, with heavies and rooh sorts priced accordingly. Calves and Bobby items show varied primes from £1 4s to £5 0s, while Pit Bon Hodgery notes 1311 cattle graded at 20% lower, with good quality in demand but heavy cattle selling poorly.
Maize and pumpkins priced per bushel and per ton with varied quality notes. Potatoes Redskina and Brownell's listed, butter in Sydney boxes with graded quality, eggs from South Coast rail lines, poultry prices for roosters ducks and turkeys, geese prices per pair. Includes regional references such as Western taid and Northern Rivers.
John W. Doyle secretary proclaims an essence exceptionally good for colds. He notes rapid action and moderate price to unite workers at home. Two shillings buys a pint of Covgnana Sore Throat remedy, comparable to common medicines.
A fragment listing Sunday service times for multiple churches in Gloucestershire and surrounding areas. Entries include Church of England Gloucester Ham Hay Gloucester River 11 am, Methodist Church of Australasia Craven Vale Stratford 2 pm and 7:30 pm, Presbyterian Church of Australia Gloucester Barrington Hall 9:41 am and 7:30 pm, Congregational Shannon Vale Westwood 7:15 pm, Baptist Stromlo 5:30 pm with Rev. J Lowrey.
War dispatch recounts a German woman commander amid East Africa fighting. She leads a band of Askaris and launches a De Wet style campaign as her husband and brother join the fighting. Troops report a strange drink called Bush-dop and widespread drunken frenzy among Germans and auxiliaries at Lumi River and amid the East African Rifles.
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