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Newspaper
Goomalling Dowerin Mail
Location
Goomalling, Western Australia, Australia
Date
May 05, 1916
Page
4
The advertisement promotes new vegetable seed packets F.O.B. and states a price per dozen with free postage except for peas or beans. It notes cash with order and mentions floral work as a service. The business, The New Seeds Business Western Seeds, is run by J Maddocks with 16 years of Perth experience, Subiaco, WA.
Albany and surrounding towns show daily close and arrive times for mail dispatches. Entries list post offices including Albany Beverley Broome Hill Brookton Dardanup Dowerin Doodlakine and many others with daily closing and arrival times often ranging from early morning to late evening. The long schedule covers locations such as Kalgoorlie Katanning Leonora Merredin Merredin loose Menzies Mt Barker Norseman Perth Pingelly and Wagin with multiple daily slots.
An opportunity at Wongan Hills offers a single prime business site opposite the railway station. Expressions of interest requested for purchase or lease arrangements. Applicants should submit details of proposed use and financial terms.
An Australian advertisement asserts Doan s Ointment cures piles without pain or surgery. It features Mr H D Burton of Subiaco Perth praising relief after trying many remedies. The ad lists price 2/9 per pot and directs purchases through Foster McClellan Co and chemists.
A list of assorted grocery items with unit prices includes Salmon steaks and tins, sardines, self raising flour, Reephame pills, eucalyptus, jelly packets, sheep’s tongues, Apricots, New potatoes and onions, flour, syrup of figs, Blythorp jam, Referee tobacco, White Witch soap, new prunes, fresh herrings, starch. Items show varied packaging and per unit costs in pre decimal currency.
Gleaned from a fragmented list of names and items including Gluyas Vandilla King, Lots, Marshalls Wo, Purple Straw, Goldsmiths Early Ed Oats, Calcutta Oats. The readable text provides a catalog-like snippet with scattered proper nouns and product references.
The notice calls for volunteers in Western Australia aged 25 to 45 to sustain troops already deployed. It details daily pay, separation allowances, and pensions for widows and dependents, listing ranks from Lieutenant to Private and referencing medical and pharmaceutical suppliers in Norham.
A promotional notice lists prizes including £500, a world trip for twelve months or £100 in cab fare, and various two person options. Applications must be completed before the draw in May 1916. local agents and representatives across Melbourne and Northam are named. Also advertised are prescription claims and a case of apples to be delivered carriage paid to wheat-area stations.
Fragmentary notice outlines recurrent departures from Northam to Goomallisg on Mondays at nine o clock via Je Margarin with looping mentions of Wednesdays and Fridays schedules including names like Wenge Mumberkine and Surokine and messy placeholders.
Owing to the winding up of the Estate of Isie Mr James Wright all Outstanding Accounts must be paid during the present month to save debtors expense of collecting By order of the Trustees £ 0 TRESISE Pharmaceutics Cheat Northats the Eastern District Central CHEMIST.
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