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Newspaper
Horsham Times
Location
Horsham, Victoria, Australia
Date
Dec 15, 1925
Page
5
Quote attributes Barton and Clark on youthfulness through constant engagement with literature and art. Emphasizes that Macy’s age improves with spiritual exertion and sustained activity, suggesting practice keeps mind and spirit youthful.
Nurse Geyer informs her friend that she has moved from Weymouth to Lascurd on Hallie Street opposite May Lark. She will continue her work there as before and maintain her usual duties.
Market report from Melbourne shows varied produce stalls with pricing for butter, ore, and other goods. Listings mention factory butter, fruit and grain items, and relative per unit costs across vendors.
Fragmentary OCR text provides names and numbers but lacks clear events, dates, places, or outcomes. The readable items include personal names such as Alice May and others, plus scattered numbers, leaving no verifiable incident or context for a concise news card.
Weather notes report yesterday and Sunday highs reaching ninety four degrees at Lirsham and city readers. Infrastructure updates describe earlier East-West rail leaves and a Marsham station switch with new line crossing near McPherson Street improving transit. Council discusses drainage issues at the Dang hotel and a town clerk vacancy amid elections.
A fragmentary Horsham page outlines a no confidence dispute between government and opposition, a motor ambulance grant debate with the Horham District Hospital, school events for Christmas and Mothers, a parents and sports meeting, plus theatre films, fire at Rainbs stables with horses burned, and local advertisements including frocks and tenders. The text mentions the Wimmera Shire Council, Mr Anderson, C Freachas, and various local committees.
The public demands an independent inquiry into grog selling in a house linked to a guilty owner. Officials have offered explanations in the Legislative Assembly and Council, but sincere action is lacking. Government must use existing machinery to clear the matter and move on, as the coalition ministry delays.
At the Goreke Moren Railway Construction Trust meeting, Mr B G Hilt was elected chairman for the next year. The group discussed allowances and travel, and debated policies affecting staff and the railway project within the shire.
Fragmentary report notes a federal minister outlining administration goals. Mentions a late August deadline and a plan linked to a prominent official, but details are obscured by OCR errors and missing context.
A Gables committee or conference group will promptly start preliminary investigations aimed at a rapid plan or mechanism to evade at an upcoming international conference. The move signals accelerated inquiry and preparation by the group to address the conference context.
Writs have been filed in Sydney on behalf of Tom Walsh against Mr Bruce and Mr Yates Superintendent of Police, and by Jacob Johnson against the same defendants claiming thirty thousand pounds in damages. Adela Walsh and Amy Jones, their wives, seek five thousand pounds.
The bacon men have started an traditional campaign by balding atop work tickings at Dandenong they refuse to work overtime. Western and Murray works owners warn the men that continuation of these tactics may mean summary dismissal.
Job control at Adelaide leaves five ships idle as Mooraboot in hel mp faces delays. The Hittab sailing ship crew with a mysterious illness. Trade disputes see butchers' pay raised to 1M a week and shopmen to casual workers 21 a day. Arbitration Court tackles railway and electric train drivers wages while exhumation order issued for Stratford death, Willem Trew. Mr Anstey shows improvement as Frank Anstey's condition improves.
Tor Government calls for ten million pounds to extend the Sorvern Territory railway by 100 miles to Daly Waters, outlining a bold expansion project.
De Valera spoke in Letterkenny challenging the Free State Government to ratify the boundary accord. He warned that twenty counties could reject the agreement, signaling unabated tension over the Ulster border issue.
Italy faces a claim that it owes the United States for national subscriptions and debt payments, with estimates suggesting figures around ninety billion in the context of wartime or postwar financial settlements.
The International train was caught in fighting near Vangtean. Passengers including women and children took refuge under carriages as combat raged. Nations’ delegates protest a breach of the Boxer Protocol amid the clash involving British, American and Japanese elements.
Reported remarks describe Premier Retsnd of France and Chicherin of Russia as seeking an entente. A private conference allegedly followed, with a leaked note suggesting a forthcoming agreement to extend the entente to Britain and other western powers.
A Geneva briefing outlines British hopes for an amicable settlement over Turkish reclamations. The report notes national stance on whether Transcaucasian or Natlone Connett interests prevail, and discusses renewal of naval authority amid wartime postures.
The statutory Wim wern Shire Council meeting reviewed auditor Mary Chitty’s certifying of books and praised secretary’s work. Discrepancies in weighbridge and poundkeeper funds were noted, with £87 9s short paid and delays in bank deposits. An extra rate of 64 was proposed for north east riding to address a £9000 debt and extensive required work.
Anoged fragment describes a new invention by Major Martel of the Revat Tnet. The machine achieved a remarkable feat, being strapped to a ship and tested at sea. It stretched to its full length, then was lowered to allow a crewed tank to traverse over ground.
Fragmentary text references a naval or wartime contractor named Mil Peete and a nine-remarkable store tied to Fox dactares with a reinforcements at a contract dated Inne Ye intermen Abdel Kem and RNP Seater. FBI involvement appears along with mentions of miner recipients and terms like customer, belt, and wart items. The passage is garbled with numerous unclear phrases and names.
At a Victoria meeting five farmers heard Mr KK Lf Macleay of the Victorian Producers Cooperative Company Ltd outline a new cooperative wheat pool. He said growers should be moved from selling in a raw open market and that the pool would advance payments, use a centralized warehousing and sale system, back by the Commonwealth Bank, to unify handling across the state and reduce losses from price fluctuations.
The district news notes a Christmas concert by Goreby Tree Thy parish with performances by Geoffrey, Mo See, Ste, and local children. The program included recitals and a piano duet, featuring performers such as Jessie Howe, Willie Nila, Lana Dean, Florene Maher, and Alex Net, with a focus on a charitable evening for the community.
Mr Tan D. MrDotatt and Cory Wt valaty named as applicants for the post of chair of the Board of Matong. The pair were recorded as city officials with prior service and ties to the ATP. Donald Hortong, former member, is noted as related to a resident of Pokeinn.
A garbled OCR summary notes a collection of gifts to scholars and references to letters and honors. It mentions names like Vin and Jon and BEE, with various scattered phrases about exams, pedagogy, and campaigns. The fragmentary text hints at academic exchange, inscriptions, and institutional ties.
An OCR fragment from a Kowree Shire tender page presents jumbled text with names, dates, and notes. The readable portions reference bids voting, items like cranes, pavings, and potential project terms, but specific actions, entities, and deadlines are unclear due to garbled input.
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