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Newspaper
Millicent Times
Location
Millicent, South Australia, Australia
Date
Sep 21, 1901
Page
1
An advertisement touts the Diamond Book of Songs offering over one hundred classics with words and music. It promises a cheap, varied collection including negro and sentimental pieces and claims many songs are out of print elsewhere. The publisher notes easy delivery to readers at two shillings sixpence posted, and asks readers to mention the Times when ordering.
A scanned policy-like fragment outlines postal charges and procedures for Parcels Post and newspapers to Queensland New Zealand and Western Australia. It mentions acknowledgement of receipt, prepayment rules, charges for insufficient postage, and timing for posting parcels before mail closures.
A garbled advertisement invites readers to join a wide scale prize contest run by The Woman's World. It promises cash rewards, daily prize announcements, and a chance to gain one million subscribers. The text urges prompt submission and hints at a large publicity plan with a controversial leverage on subscriptions.
The report notes favorable sale prospects for the British merino and crossbred lines opening September 17, with buoyant demand and price advances. Auction results detail wool prices, hides, cattle and kangaroo meat values, and a note on a church cemetery grave digger. It also cites declining births in England, elephants in the Indian Army fed twice daily, and a Virginia druggist praising Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy sold in 1901.
A man was hanged at Dantaig for a matter involving a woman dated twenty three years past. The victim’s son suffered punishment by taper of time and was later arrested, while orders to punish the culprit were carried out.
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