Horrors of the Flight from Holland
Refugees describe families torn apart as children separated from mothers arrive in Holland from Antwerp as shells fall. Dozens of babies travel with no parents while panic prompts priest to reassure villagers. Many refugees head toward Ewoben and Rodendeal seeking sanctuary, with improvised journeys and widespread hunger and poverty.
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London
Antwerp
Holland
Gers
Hesoben
Ewoben
Rodendeal
Women mobilize for empire effort in Australia
Lady Munro Ferguson leads Australian Red Cross amid a nationwide drive. Volunteers at Government House Melbourne sort vast deliveries of garments, bandages, books, and comforts for war relief. Cabled totals show medicines, fowls, and supplies gathered from volunteers across cities, with ships loaded and ready for dispatch to London.
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Australiasia
Australia
Commonwealth
Government House
Federal Government House
Melbourne
Australian Red Cross Society
Helen Munro-Perguson
London
Cata
England
Fragmented passage hints at a medical case and district discovery
A garbled text fragment mentions a doctor, a patient, a fracture, and a district discovery. The readable bits imply medical notes about an injury and a potential local finding, but the details are unclear and partially corrupted.
Roy W Sandford aims to boost car sales with local agents
Real motor car service is emphasized as crucial to ownership. Roy W Sandford Ltd plans to place agencies in key towns so local garages aid buyers and service users with specific cars. The program names local agents to assist customers and encourage purchases through them rather than Sydney.
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Roy W. Sandford
Sydney
Roy
Srm
Wool Auctions In Sydney Market Report From Melbourne Conference
A representative conference of Australian Woolbrokers met in Melbourne on Friday to discuss holding wool auctions in Colonial centres. It was decided to offer catalogues in Sydney during the week commencing 20 October. Prime cattle attracted keen demand at Homebush last Thursday with prices above late highs, while mid and lower grades lagged. About 3400 head yarded. Best cattle reached £9 1s, steers to £8 2, cows to £9 15s, and weaners £2 to 4 3s. Fat sheep numbered around 1000 head, with wethers up to 18 5s, ewes 10 4 to 9 11, lambs 11/1.
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Sydney
Melbourne
Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd
Homebush
Eoud
Bowman
Rock Ville
Manilla
Government predicts large wheat crop despite weather
New York reports Government crop estimates show 126,000,000 bushels more wheat than earlier forecasts. Officials foresee substantial production and emphasize consistent demand as markets weigh potential price shifts.
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New York
Life's War Guide Second Issue Worth Getting
A Melbourne publisher releases Life's War Guide number two at sixpence with hundreds of war questions, pictures, and an eight-page atlas. It features articles on six weeks of fighting, naval firing power, Sir John French, leaders of Germany and France, and prisoner of war fate. Readers urged to collect numbers one through four, with mail options for obtaining all four volumes.
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Life's
Fitchett
Sir John French
Life
Swanston Street
Melbourne
Remark on Safe Chamberlains Remedy by Mrs Wakely
Mrs Julia Wakely of Ball Street Wanganui New Zealand praises Chamberlains Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy as a safe fast relief for colic and diarrhoea stating long term pains have improved and it relieves suffering at once with wide store availability.
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Chamberlain
Julia Wakely
Ball Street
Wanganui
N.Z
First Wheat Sold At Four Nine Per Bushel In Sydney
A truck of new season wheat grown by Mr. Frater of Baan Baa was auctioned today in Sydney. Strong competition drove the price to 4/9 per bushel. Old wheat remained at the 4/2 maximum with business at a standstill.
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Sydney
Frater
Baan Baa
Stormy Saturday forecast yields to no rain in Akolan event
Stormy outlook on Saturday but nothing came of it. Bask et picnic sports and social at Akolan on October 16 with aid of Patriotic Fund. Horse team sale announced at Yards on October 20 by Lowcock & King. 120 head of horses listed for auction with gun nedah on Tuesday October 20. Express Printing service and Piper Co Ltd advertise printing and hide purchasing with high rates.
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Akolan
Aid of Patriotic Fund
Gunnedah
Lowcock & King
Dalton and Mounted Rider Allegedly Threaten Dows’ Owners
Fragmentary text suggests a dramatic claim about Dalton and a mounted rider ready to attack owners of dows who failed to their rances. The garbled OCR includes references to blue bombs and a horse, but crucial names, dates, and context are missing or unclear.
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Sheridan
Dogregiv
Dalton
Chesnut
Dows
Federal steam line planned from Tasmania to mainland
The Federal Government will start its steam service by establishing a line between Tasmania and the mainland. The German Emperor is said to be intensely exasperated by sympathy in the United States with the Allies in the current climate. Large numbers of starving cattle, horses and sheep are being tracked from the Forbes district. Life offers disappointments and dreary hours for all, yet difficulties become the raw material for shaping our future and crown of glory.
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Tasmania
United States
Forbes District
German drive on Lille repulsed as Allied walls bite back
Paris reports German shells in Lille mark a desperate push to break the encirclement by Allied forces. French artillery devastates advancing troops along Lille’s eastern fringe while German retreat from Lille Bethune and thrust toward Arras prompt praise for Australia and Canada for sending forces to the front.
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Paris
Saturdy
Lille
Turcomg
Armentiers
Lile
Hun Theda
Maxelsien
Turcoing
Arras
Lens
Loisom
Bethune
British Casualties Report Through Wednesday
London reports as of Wednesday the British death toll stands at 209 officers killed. Another 267 officers are missing and 610 wounded.
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London
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