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Newspaper
Goomalling Dowerin Mail
Location
Goomalling, Western Australia, Australia
Date
Nov 10, 1914
Page
4
In Paris and trenches the British private known as W Le Wright of Surrey recounts his platoon’s close calls and comic reflexes amid shellfire. He details runners, wire, bayonet runs, and a Gordons bayonet charge, noting comrades slain, medical quips, and the relentless anxiety of combat. A companion narrator sketches the same scenes with wary humor and fear.
War poetry exhorts citizens to join the fight as drums call Freeman to defend heritage. It recalls Bret Harte lines urging courage amid cannon fire and comradeship in death rather than treachery. The reader is urged to answer the drum and stand united.
A wartime poem invoking national resolve and courage for England, urging unity in freedom’s struggle and praising the red cross banner. The page also cites local ads from Messrs J. T. Milner and Co and Wills and Cos, promoting ice supply and farming supplies including sheep dips and shears.
In a vivid line up at the barrier the crowd roars as the race of the year begins. A galloping mob is urged to mail six bob to Jack Cody, Tattersale's agent in Dowerin for bets and odds.
In Tim Harnett's saloon electric brushes are praised for strengthening and giving hair a new lustre. The ad notes Woods' Great Peppermint Care for chest complaints priced at 1 shilling 6 pence.
Lands available for selection in the Northam district include Avon Location 18285 containing 1990 acres at 14/6 per acre, with abandoned conditional purchases and homesteads. Blocks feature loam and clay soils, timber species, and varied acreage. rainfall around 11 inches, proximity to Totali Avon Location 18384. Another parcel near J Ottey forfeited purchases with sandy areas, white and salmon gums, and dam site potential, adjoining the Dowern Merredin line.
A fragmentary Victorian style notice mentions a looming danger and urges Boston readers to seek aid at Connell Street and Murray Street Bat. Le, alongside an advertisement praising Woods Great Peppermint Cure as a consoling remedy amid political strife.
Important alterations in train timings across the Eastern Goldfields and Northam Dowerin Merredin lines take effect Sunday. The 4.10 Northam to Perth departs 4.35, the 11.5 Northam to Dowerin Merredin runs Monday and Thursday only, and the 2.45 Merredin to Dowerin Northam operates Tuesday and Friday. The Wongan Hills to Northam service on Wednesdays and Fridays leaves at 8 and 9.45 respectively, while the 1.15 Merredin Northam Perth service changes time.
Railway schedule lists daily passenger services from Northam to Perth Albany Katanning Kalgoorlie Merredin via EGR and via Goomalling Dowerin with specific departure times. Services include special days for Merredin via Goomalling Dowerin and weekend patterns for Dowerin Goomalling and Toodyay Wongan Hills with varied morning and afternoon departures.
The following members across the three parties were elected in the recent election in Stile. Country Party selects B Harrison Wansborough Cunningham Gardiner Willmott Griffiths Piesse Hickmott.
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