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Newspaper
Horsham Times
Location
Horsham, Victoria, Australia
Date
Jul 01, 1930
Page
9
A cluttered advertisement announces a stocktaking sale at Davey, Davey & Co. featuring discounted garments including Jersey suits, furs, and beaver coney coats. Highlights include fur chokers, beaver coney coats with trimmed collars, and various leather trim pieces, all offered at reduced prices amid a busy, colorful layout.
Wool and cotton garments for children on sale including rompers, pyjamas, frocks, and dresses. Items feature beaver coats and twill frock styles with reduced prices. limited stock advertised in a period sale notice.
Readable sections of a historic sale list feature cotton garments including singlets bloomers and nightwear, wool items, dressing jackets and cardigans, plus felt hats and accessories. The page highlights clearances and low prices with various sale marks and stock descriptions.
Manchester store advertises heavy unbleached Twill and Herringbone Sheeting at sale prices, plus Vl Towelling, Linen Forfar, Flannelette, Cretonne, Curtain Net, and men’s clothing. Names include Davey’s Specials, Liavey’s Special, and various price points and yardage.
Sale highlights include two full size kapok quilts with satin finish and generous fill. Prices shown: double kapok quilts at 30, single at 25. Also featured are all wool blankets, heavy facula blankets, and Waverly blankets in multiple sizes with notable discounts.
Local mercery offers a clearance of men’s attire and accessories including grey oottom working socks black cotton box items heavy heather and grey socks cashmore fancy socks in silk and cotton sale prices from 1/0 to 4/6 broad fuzz ties and plier braces shirts underpants cardigans and gowns with prices ranging mainly 1/0 to 4/6 in a varied stock, many items to clear and strong emphasis on value and range.
A storefront display lists yardage and fabric sales with numerous items: navy twill, crepe de chine, silks, and coatings. Bargains include lengths of navy twill, crepe de chine in brown and black, silk varieties by the yard, and assorted goods priced to clear. Shown are colors, yardage, and sale terms, reflecting a bustling dress department clearance.
The piece argues Australians must embrace a unified national character, duty, and self reliance. It laments selfishness and urges efficient living and patriotism to sustain Australia’s future under its soil, climate, and cultural ideals. It envisions a day when Australians govern themselves with unity and purpose.
The excerpt presents a garbled, OCR like mix of names, places, and fragments. It mentions people and places such as Hamilton Street Sydney and other scattered terms, but no coherent event or report is discernible. The text appears corrupted and nondisclosable as a standalone news item.
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