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Newspaper
Manilla Express
Location
Manilla, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Oct 14, 1914
Page
2
Local shopper notices item prices and sales at a department store promising best values in clothing. The ad highlights affordable outfits, frequent discounts, and a wide selection aimed at budget minded customers.
A historical price table lists summer clothing items with multiple items like Bengal Teced-Trowsers and Brown Bolland-Trousers. Entries show measurements or sizes followed by prices in shillings, including Sacs and Trousers Suits and variations such as striped and plain fabrics. The fragmentary list continues with additional fabric and style combinations and their quoted prices.
Our office issues a reduced Express due to internal changes. Citizens praise the fire brigade for a swift job yesterday. W. R. Geddes of Hobden sent 30 bales of wool to Sydney and directed one bale to be sold for the Pastoralists Union Patriotic Fund. Penn's Pictures opens at Sly's Picture Show tonight with an all star programme selected by Spencer's Sydney. Fred Graves named pianist. Dodgers endorse his music. Penn, a renowned film maker, plans to maximize his effort and screens three star dramas and two star comedies as the opening attractions.
Military staff Veness Cumming and Lang depart Moray night for Sydney to attend the Light Horse School of Instruction for officers and non commissioned officers. The Canterbury by election result shows Cann defeating Huseton 2050 to 428. Liberal selection despite NSW Liberal Association non endorsement. Mr Kaing agrees with Labor to not contest elections during the War.
The Inverell Times reports an arson attempt at the Burge Bros. premises, with their fine new vessel likely targeted. Police pursue a guilty party as a £200 reward tempts informants, but the crime remains unsolved and shrouded in mystery.
A few days mission was held at Upper Manilla by Rev Father Casimir with strong devotion morning and evening. The altar was beautifully decorated by the Misses Byrnes. Music by the choir under the conductorship of Mrs M J Cos Telloe.
Crown Lands open for selection at Barcaldine Hughenden and Jundah in early November. Barcaldine offers Home Crees Resumption blocks up to 23 499 acres near Alice Downs, with watering by Home Creek and bore drains. Hughenden presents a 17 175 acre block with rolling downs, 15 miles from Nelia station. Jundah provides a 14 610 acre block 150 miles SW of Longreach with well watered country.
Mr Fisher voiced a defense of overseas residents in wartime Australia stating patriots should not wrong foreign citizens who have made Australia their home. He argued Australia has long offered broad freedoms and expressed hope that this remains the norm despite war.
A morning blaze swept through a Manila street, destroying ten shops and heavily damaging homes. Firefighters and nearby businesses saved several structures, with authorities listing insurance claims for affected proprietors including W Macdonald, Hawkins, Byrnes, Lightfoot, Wilshire, Ryan, Mills, Martin & Co, and others. The cause remains unknown, and recoveries are ongoing.
A bank manager, Mr Bosward of the New South Wales savings bank, suffered a severe foot gash after a shop clearance mishap. He was taken to hospital and will likely stay two to three weeks as a crew works to clear debris and assess damages. The loss was estimated between £300 and £1000.
Reports from London and Rotterdam claim Antwerp fell to German troops after a 40 hour bombardment. Civilians fled, trains crowded with refugees, and key city landmarks were damaged. Allied advances in France and Russia were noted but no decisive result yet. An American consul in Antwerp described nightly bombardments and deadly shelling.
After Mr. Diederich fled the town the Head Bridge over the Scheldt was destroyed blocking remaining residents. It took him 18 hours to reach Ghent as the roads were crowded with fugitives.
Four Ostend steamers bring 4250 Belgian refugees to Folkestone and two Flushing boats carry 1900 more, many destitute and clinging to belongings. The Times correspondent recalls the Antwerp exodus, with estimates of up to a half million panic-stricken fleeing in the 24 hours before surrender as fires flare in parts of the city. Central News Agency reports Allied cavalry capturing a German convoy and 850 mitrailleuses.
Dr. Cooper the Anglican Bishop of Armidale will visit Manilla on Thursday. Rev W P Best resigns as Vicar of Manilla and is set to succeed Rev H M R Rupp as Vicar of Barraba at year start. Mr J Osborne formerly of Manilla post office joins Expeditionary Forces. Miss Hindman appointed to Manilla Public School staff to succeed Miss Chapman. Mr Best and wife have many Barraba ties and will relocate. Mr Rupp leaves end of month. Rev C A Sanders named locum tenens at Barraba for November and December.
Several reports including one described as New Mexico's red letter day on Saturday are held over for further processing.
Brown's Pictures presents The House of Temperley as the main feature tonight. The film is described as a hit of many photo plays with a notable theft sequence. The program also includes some "elinker comics" for added entertainment.
Antwerp has fallen. Last day for registering your dog. Penn's Peel Pictures open tonight. A wheat exhibit in Stoddart's window shows the value of fallowing and cultivation. Life is the pitch of the orchestra and we are the instruments. The discord and broken string of the individual do not affect the whole except as false notes.
A. Wilshire and Co. inform clients and friends they are temporarily located next to Mr. J. E. Simpson, chemist, as they resume operations after a disruption.
A notice announces an unreserved sale of salvage goods and several sets of harness plus two tons of prime potatoes. Terms are cash with no reserve. The sale will be at the auctioneer's late office led by V. J. Byrnes.
Movements will be elven. The postponement is necessary because three non commissioned officers are absent in Sydney attending the Light Horse School of Instruction.
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