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Newspaper
Goomalling Dowerin Mail
Location
Goomalling, Western Australia, Australia
Date
May 23, 1916
Page
4
A long list of mail close and arrival times for towns across Western Australia including Albany Brib, Coolgardie, Merredin, Toorak, Kalgoorlie and Perth. Also a probate notice from the Supreme Court of Western Australia calling creditors to file claims by June 1, 1916 and a stray horse notice from Carter Bros. at Waverley.
An Australian reader describes severe back pain and kidney symptoms eased by Doan's Backache Kidney Pills. He reports lasting kidney health eight years after treatment and notes purchase outlets and postal order option from Foster-McClellan Co. Perth.
Fragmented catalog of canned goods and pantry items with coin prices. Items include salmon steak seven penny tins and dried apricots priced one shilling per pound, along with various pills and delicacies.
The committee, having paid full value for the work, is prepared to find a purchaser at the advertised amount if the winner desires, also for the second and third prizes. Local Agent H. Jackson, tobacconist, Fitzgerald Street, Northam. M. Mills, representative, 165 Flinders Lane, Melbourne.
An advertisement from a chemist in Northam promotes LECIGEN, a scientific nerve food and vitalising tonic. The copy describes the product as enhancing nerve vitality and overall vigor.
The Empire seeks an average of 26 men daily from Western Australia to reinforce troops already at the front. Authorities welcome additional volunteers to sustain and strengthen forces, lightening the burden on those in the field and hastening final victory. Recruit age 18 to 45, minimum height 5 ft 1 in, chest measurement 32 in.
The notice outlines daily separation allowances for wives and children under 16, plus a similar allowance for the mother if solely dependent. It notes widow’s pension on death or total incapacity, and mentions dependent pensions and payments by Tresise, Chemist, Northam, for drugs and medicines.
Daily and weekday postal share details show multiple towns with stated closing times and daily arrival windows. Entries include Toodyay Cammin Crayning Wongamine Waiel Wyola Wyalcatchem Wagin Westonialong with varied mornings and evenings across days, listing close times and arrival hours.
A brief notice states that a shipment of apples will be delivered prepaid and carried at the seller’s expense. The undersigned commits to deliver one case of apples to the buyer with carriage costs prepaid. The communication implies a formal sale term for the fruit shipment.
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