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Newspaper
Horsham Times
Location
Horsham, Victoria, Australia
Date
May 03, 1940
Page
4
Fragmentary OCR suggests a public notice or event detail dated May 1 with names or acronyms SNK and MINMIP and THURSSY. Readers should verify source for full action, place, and parties involved.
A sale on Tuesday in May 1919 offers horses, cows, farming gear, a tractor, and household furniture. Items include a most likely gelding and other livestock, with buyers expected to come from the area near Gersham, under instructions from Thomas Young and L T Brake.
Under instructions from the executors of the late William Medford the sale includes sheep horses and farming implements. Wethers ewes rams and mixed sexes star for sale alongside a 15 year old wrought gelding and draught horses. Machinery includes McKay binder engine corncrusher wool press harvester plough harrows and threshers with related gear and stock tanks. Sale details place and terms not fully legible.
Executors in the estate of the late William Redford offer 640 acres at Koonik Lowan county for sale by auction on the property. Includes four room house, sheds, water bore, ample wind- up acreage with heavy black soil suited for wheat and barley. Inspection arranged. agents Wilson Bolton Co. Horsham Goroke Brypcher.
Hersam Manager MM Garfield presides over a large estate sale listing nine miles northwest of Horsham. The inventory includes Corriedale sheep and rams, cattle, Border cross yearlings, a sheepdog, farm machinery, tools, furniture, and household items. Terms include cash for many items with options for approved bills. sale begins at 1 pm with arrangements by Dalgety and Company Limited for the Mapite Red Cross.
A fragmented notice lists forthcoming sales across Thursday Friday Tuesday and Wednesday with stray ordinals and unclear year hints. The readable portions show multiple days aimed at a timetable but no precise entities or locations are provided.
A 1482 Paris setting film version of Victor Hugo’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame headlines Horsham Theatre with 3500 cast members and Sir Cedric Hardwicke among 100 principals. The production features Quasimodo, Esmeralda style gypsy dancer Maureen O Hare, and dramatic rescue and storming scenes concluding in tragedy. Other films and shorts shown include Damaged Goods and Shipyard Sally with Gracie Fields.
A historical report discusses pulpy kidney in sheep spreading from Victoria to other states. It notes symptoms death, and rapid onset with quiet illness then sudden collapse. Vaccination of ewes and lambs before birth and early life is advised to prevent losses and limit bacterial contamination.
Fragmentary OCR notes depict a juvenile delinquency case involving a student and peers. References mention imprisonment for fraud and theft, a Jets team context, and a rearrest story with unclear details about dates or locations. The text hints at a meeting and criminal acts without coherent events.
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