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Newspaper
Harvey Chronicle
Location
Harvey, Western Australia, Australia
Date
Jun 02, 1916
Page
4
A colonial writer argues natives rely on land rents, animal husbandry, and family labor to sustain idleness. He laments lack of work ethic, noting grazing grounds, dog rents, and menial tasks funded by a wife’s poultry and a child’s earnings, implying larger families enrich idleness.
The piece portrays a Chinese wedding as solemn and ceremonial with restrained laughter. It details the bride in red and black makeup, a scarlet headdress, and a heavy veil, seated with bridesmaids as a feast remains uneaten. The bride is led away after exit rites and the groom leads a procession to his home while guests toss rice.
The passage describes sawdust as a versatile material once used to sprinkle floors and insulate bottles. It details modern by products like acetic acid and tar, and notes uses in fuel, explosives, paper making, gas production, and briquettes while contrasting with excelsior for protecting glassware.
In a contemporaneous chat, Tomlin praises a sharp business man known for rapid thinking and exceptional memory. The speaker recounts a tale of precise actions from chair to door to window, recalling details of a bulldog and a night departure. A historical aside mentions the 1817 treaty between England and the United States on Lake Ontario.
A lengthy list honors district volunteers who joined the Australian Expeditionary Forces. It covers those already in Gallipoli or training, and invites recruiters to forward missing names from centers, highlighting many individuals and towns across the district who answered the empire’s call.
A long list of names including Coffen Curtis Turner Thomas Harrison Trueman Laugher Coffen Barnett McKee Kirke Hallay Rowe Kent Barnett Howard McKenna Chiaholus Lewis Liford Rigby Flening Lint Scrivener Bird Woodland Dowell Reeves Rice Gutea Gale Anderson Buckland Ben Pierce Ronan Lewis Sheehan Mathews Myera Woodlands Hansen Huggena McKenna Kane Hall Hall Cousins Chisholm Brady Thomas Clough Ablon Chester Ted King George King Willie Little Henretti Frennan OBrien O'Brien Moore Cuttack McLocklan Yank Howe Selkirk Ben Melvoy O'Neil Dearden Lee Renan Lawson Tatans Bovell Berry Cousins and notes of killed returned missing. Mentions COOKERNUP RECRUITS and 5s subscription price.
Pinjarra Telephone Exchange announces daily hours from 9am to 6pm and holidays from 9am to noon. A list of trunk line charges is published. All calls from public telephones incur an extra one penny charge.
Australia calls for 56000 additional recruits as Western Australia must meet a new quota and increase daily intake. Ages 18 to 45, minimum height seven feet? chest 33 inches. Pay ranges from 6d to 21 shillings per day with allowances and pensions for dependents. Recruiting offices listed in Perth Pinjarra and roads board areas.
A historic price list shows Nyal brand products including Face Cream Hirautone Beef and Iron Wine Almond Cream Laxacold Little Liver Wills Rieamallec Pills Soothing Syrup Worm Syrup and Worm Syrup at varied shillings and pence. Prices include 6d 1s 3d and 2s 6d reflecting early 20th century commerce.
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