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Newspaper
Horsham Times
Location
Horsham, Victoria, Australia
Date
Dec 09, 1949
Page
1
A list of crystal sepviette rings, crystal salt and pepper shakers, English tea sets, utility and dinner sets, and a fancy 7-piece water set offered at Xmas Fair Prices. The department invites inspection of Xmas novelties including fancy plates, cups, and saucers with holiday pricing.
Readable fragments show a Christmas fair catalog itemizing practical gifts for men. Items include wrist watch bands, pyjamas, crepe de Chine fabrics, spun fabrics, and lounging garments. Prices are listed with various brands and sizes, alongside colorful ranges and sewers.
An old mall or shop advert markets gifts for the holidays noting quality paper and envelopes, cashmere bouquet gifts, novelty items, zip purses, ladies and childpen bags, hand kerchiefs, silk and nylon hosiery, hair brushes, novelty aprons for all ages, with Christmas fair prices and varied colors.
A lively vintage notice promoting Xmas Fair prices on ladies undergarments. It lists items including panties, vests, silk slips, nightwear, and dressing gowns in multiple brands such as Prestige Celanese Kayser Lustre and English Celanese with sizes and colors extensively advertised for holiday shopping.
Pure wool travelling rugs in designs and colors. Xmas Fair Price from 45/6. Wool rugs reversible for long service. Prices from £5/10/6. Kit or Gladstone bags in tweed leather. Inspect large range of suit cases in brands and styles. Ladies hat cases in round or square shapes in browns greys fawns.
Irish linen boxed sets in all sizes with cloths and serviettes in natural gold green and blue. Elegantly colored English towels 24x46 and 22x42 with serges. Fancy towels many colors. Novelty linen tea towels several designs. Candlewick bedspreads in single size with varied designs and colors. Prices from 5/3 to 11/3 and 9/9 to 10/11.
In Horsham Town Hall last night Liberal and Country Party supporters backed Wimmera candidate W R Lawrence while MLA W J Mibus argued Labor would put power back in the pound. Speakers warned socialist planning would conscript ideas and manpower, threaten private enterprise, and risk farmers and industry.
The council empowered the mayor to call a conference with Horsham Chamber of Commerce and other bodies to press for an overhead bridge. Key figures cited include Cr R E Charles Cr R C Bielke and Dr Reid who argued the bridge would improve safety by preventing workers from crawling under tracks and should replace ground level facilities. The Railways Department noted council action is not yet decided and that railway unions would need to be involved.
Horsham school children await December 14 as the start of a six week Christmas vacation. Students will return to school on January 31, 1950.
A woman cyclist, Mrs. A. M. Arnott of Sinclair Avenue Horsham, was seriously injured in a collision with a car driven by Mrs. Margaret Walsh of Vectis South. The accident happened at Natimuk and Bennett Roads at 11 30 yesterday morning and Ms Arnott was admitted to Wimmera Base Hospital.
The polling booth for Horsham in the upcoming Federal election will be held at the Masonic Hall on Urquhart Street. In prior elections the booth operated from the Town Hall.
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