This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 16 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Horsham Times
Location
Horsham, Victoria, Australia
Date
Jan 05, 1917
Page
3
The item lists multiple entities and places tied to auction sales and livestock markets. It mentions Young Brothers, stockyards, Geelong, Melbourne, and various station agents, with references to mutual societies and fire insurance. The fragmentary text implies upcoming auctions or sales across multiple regions and organizations.
Fragmented OCR notes reference Young Bros Opening Stock Sales in 1917 with garbled names and stray letters. The readable bits mention a sale event and associated individuals, but details are incomplete and uncertain.
A garbled OCR fragment lists numerous names firms and locations including David Anderson and Co AVOTIOSFER LAND SVOUK FINANCE AGEN WILOSSTREET BOTS LAM and Horoke Bopece tile LOA while mentioning dates and various persons. The text uses odd spellings and incomplete phrases, suggesting a mixed bank, legal and personal notices page with unclear context and many proper nouns.
Bolton Horsha stock and station agents advertise land and general commission services across Victoria. Specialize in land sales with branches and agencies listed at multiple towns. Represent various companies and provide machinery and motor company connections.
Directors Strachan Shannon Thosiook I Sanderson announce wool sold at current rates. Large consignments for sale and storage. Weekly stock sales of sheep, hides, and wool listed by David Anderson & Co, Abraham Agent. Alice Agents of Koradjuha and Nurrabiel distribute notices of sale throughout the year.
Educational notice describes Brightom Grammar School near Brightom station and five miles from Brighton railway. It details boarders, library, Church of England instruction, and residential buildings with homes, pens court, gardens, and acres. Includes aims and daily routines under head master G. ou Wrowtiter and master A. Crowtiter.
Fragmented OCR depicts a council or committee scene with names and roles unclear. It mentions Hamiton Western District College and a chairperson, with garbled phrases suggesting governance or academic matters and a reference to a cup competition or honor.
Fragmentary OCR text mentions Clarendon College, a tent, and delays with a legal matter, plus partial names and dates. The readable portions hint at a local event or notice needing clarification and a possible geographic location Urbain, Vernipih, NS.
Fragmentary readable text hints at a nonsensical report with scattered phrases about figures and numbers. It mentions a Woo 816 and Huo 806 amid unclear references to places and persons. The readable content offers no coherent event or outcome to summarize into a clear news card.
Bereavement notice from Stockwrel and Mr Mrs Jan Thomypeonym Prenihoof for Liege and France casualties. Thanks for sympathy. Mentions Private A. OT Stockwell 38th Battalion who fell in France on a November day. Poem verse about home, memory, and sacrifice.
A long, disjointed letter fragment discusses German war aims and Allied responses amid World War I. It mentions Germany seeking peace under tough terms, Allied vigilance, and broad European stakes, with scattered phrases about Britain, Russia, France, and Avale lines. The piece reads like a wartime opinion letter bearing strained rhetoric and garbled syntax.
Reports describe a snake in a yard near a farm accompanied by a milk jug threat of mischief, with local observers noting its behavior. Other items include Horsham Court granting meal liquor licenses to hotel keepers and discussions on federal politics, farmers production, and cadet training plans amid wartime conditions.
Preliminary arrangements for the disposal of the Australian wool clip are made with a Melbourne wool appraisement to be held this week and Geelong sales to follow. The report mixes in with notes on war pensions, theatre events, and local civic matters across Ballarat and Victoria, detailing public notices, tax changes for theatres, and a Bishop’s enthronement, reflecting a busy Melbourne-Geelong regional page.
A report covers a school Christmas event with students and teachers cited for participation and a Santa Claus tableau. It also notes a New Year fishing find of letters and papers, a meat works strike affecting supply, church service updates, land sale notices, and a Presbyterian college catering to adolescent girls.
A report details a New Year’s Eve accident on Litt Bourke Street involving wrecked carriages and pedestrians, with Erne st Hin den and others cited. It notes Murray Watere Aet copes with work arrangements and mentions Victorian candidates and Tower placements, plus military references to the 2th Battalion and associated degrees.
Fragmentary obituary notices from Pak oar and Stawell detail multiple passings and mourners. Mrs Anne Phillips relict of the late TD Philips dies at Stawell. A six months old child and other kin are mentioned amid incomplete lines. A pastor named E. 6b conducts service. local residents are asked to share sympathies as families suffer.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.