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Newspaper
Goomalling Dowerin Mail
Location
Goomalling, Western Australia, Australia
Date
Apr 30, 1915
Page
4
Traders in Sydney and Brisbane monitor a new wool export outlook as freight rates drop. Market talk cites potential Australian wool tonnage movement from Amsterdam and Franny, with anticipated firm demand and 30,000 bales in Victoria amid ongoing seasonal shipments.
Mr William C Downs arrives in Melbourne to open a trade office linking Australia and the United States. He aims to supply Australian foodstuffs and wool to meet American shortages, noting tariff changes favoring Australian imports and the need to overcome shipping bottlenecks in New York ports.
The brief appears to be an OCR fragment with unclear names and places. Readable elements mention a castle and a daily schedule or notice. No coherent events, dates, or organizations are identifiable from the fragment.
A list of daily mail dispatch times from Northam Post Office and various Western Australian towns including Albany Beverley Brockville Cunderdin Fremantle Meckering Narrogin Perth Pingelly Kalgoorlie Katanning Clackton Wel, etc. The notices specify daily mail leaves, with some towns showing additional weekday schedules and morning or afternoon departures.
Dalgety and Co Ltd report weekly sales of sheep skins hides and wool at the Wool and Produce Exchange, Dalgety buildings Freemance April 23. Quotations show declines and varied prices for sound and damaged pelts and hides with daily rates listed, plus notes on tallow and prints. The notice also promotes print services and cordials supply from Hotels and Ltd with Australian stock and factory details.
A damaged testimonial claims a Perth reader recovered from backache and kidney distress after using Doan's Backache Kidney Pills. Mrs Strong of Beaconsfield notes her husband suffered long and found relief, urging others to buy at 2/9 a bottle from Foster & Co. 313 Murray St. Perth.
A fragmented list shows multiple locations with daily and specific opening hours. Entries include Tammin, Oodway, Trayning, Wongamine, Wongan Hills, Wyalkatchem, Wyola, York, and Westonoria with morning and afternoon times and one note about an electric brush-up or facial service at T. Tsarnett’s salon.
A fundraising appeal from the Women’s Motor Ambulance Fund of Western Australia requests volunteers to donate a shilling each to raise £500 for a motor ambulance for wounded. £90 already raised. The letter urges press publicity and lists Mrs Frank Andrew and Mrs Wilford Mitchell as joint honorary secretaries seeking community generosity and receipts distribution.
A long Victorian style notice promotes the Eight Hours Great Art Union with prizes including £500 cash, a world trip, and a £1000 work of art, proceeds for Australian hospitals. It lists ticket prices, draw date May 18 1915, and agents in Melbourne. It notes rainfall records for Northam and urges purchases by May 1.
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