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Newspaper
Goomalling Dowerin Mail
Location
Goomalling, Western Australia, Australia
Date
Jul 09, 1912
Page
4
Starts on Thursday July II with heavy discounts across textiles and home goods. Importers tout genuine value behind ads with low stock turnover and bold reductions on damask, linens, curtains, blankets, and window coverings. Extensive reductions target plannelettes, flannels, cretonne, and finished garments to clear stock.
Department store circular lists heavy discounts on shirts trousers and jackets for men boys. Highlights include strong cotton working shirts at 1/6, heavy flannel coderskirts at 3/3, tweet Chesterfields sale 20/4, youths heavy Chesterfields 14/11, cotton tunic trousers 2/9 and 4/8, heavy tweed trousers sale 4/4, boots at 20 percent below city prices, and boys suits and uniforms marked down with several price points across tweed, navy serge and duke of York styles.
An old newspaper ad lists groceries and housewares with freight terms. It cites items from bacon and tea to jams, flour, rice, sauces, and wallpaper, noting freight discounts for orders over set amounts and ranges, plus various per dozen or per unit prices.
A confectionery sale advertises a large purchase of English sweets from noted makers. Items include Butter Toffee, Gurmen Devon Toffee, Clarmice Barley Almonds, Clarmice Everton Toffee, Treacle Toffee tins, and Tripple Cream tins with prices around 1d to 1/3, quoted as below usual for high class goods.
A testimonial touts Doan's Backache Kidney Pills as a cure for kidney trouble and backache. It claims rapid relief, notes a lasting improvement after one bottle, and endorses the product for the whole household. Product price is listed and buyers are advised to ensure authenticity.
The Thoroughbred stallion Scotland Star by Cravet from Trilby will stand at Goomalling District this season. Terms include £4 18s for one mare, £2 18s for two, with groom’s fee 2s 6d. Details from EB W Robinson, Goomalling.
Fragmentary notes describe Rafrochmente and Summer Drinks along with Freak Fruit and Vegetables and Afternoon Tea Specialty. References to Good Menle and Clean Beds with a price of 1/8 wack appear alongside forwarding of vegetables to stations per a postal note and tram costs 1/6 to 10/-.
The course of studies includes thorough discipline of Christian doctrine and all branches of English education. Pupils prepared for the University and musical examinations. Theoretical and practical with Trinity College, London. First term starts Feb. 6. For further information apply to the mother superior.
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