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Newspaper
Northam Courier
Location
Northam, Western Australia, Australia
Date
Feb 18, 1916
Page
4
The Northam Race Club announces weights for the Wednesday picnic meeting. Local horses dominate the field with entries to be approved by stewards. The 7 furlong Picnic Handicap offers £10 to prizes with £7 to winner and £3 to second, plus a £6 event where £1 goes to the winner.
The race runs six furlongs with 8 pounds minimum weight 7 7. Nominal 4/ accept entries Union Jane Lady Caleaming 710 Floultimg 5710 Rouge Bow 77 with prize money listed for first and second places.
A dated plea warns kidney diseases threat while presenting Doan's Backache Kidney Pills as cures with a testimonial from Mr W Lyon of Northam. The ad promotes Doan's pills at 2/3 a bottle and lists distributors and several regional offices and quotes decades of usefulness.
A compact notice from Tresise Chemist in Nor thaw promotes Prescription Special Ist offerings with emphasis on a discount or special item for customers.
Incomplete OCR list shows War Munitions Supply Co of Western Australia with authorized capital of £50,000, divided into 200,000 shares at 5 shillings each, payable on application. Mentions multiple names: Mir K S Hume Chief Mechanical Engineer, E Shaw Manager State Irrigation Works, Plaistow and Co, Loulisson Bros, Government Analyst L. Mann, and others.
Australia seeks volunteers to reinforce fronts with 25 men daily and seeks more as secured. Includes daily pay rates, separation allowances, and pensions for widows and dependents. Also advertising a two week offer from Messrs Golding and Co for solid oak furniture priced at £17 19s 6d with Australian-made goods and home-ready design.
John Darling and Sons, wheat exporters, appointed government agents for receiving wheat at all stations and sidings in the Northam district. Farmers to notify intended delivery with siding details. weighing and receiving arranged. certificates issued with prompt dispatch under the scheme.
Notice informs readers that the Northam Courier and Goomalling Dower in Mail are sold to Messrs W G O Riseley & Co effective December 1, 1915. It asks subscribers and advertisers to remit all accounts to Riseley and Co with their receipts serving as discharge, and notes that EB L Green is no longer authorized to collect funds.
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