Doan's Ointment Cured Persistent Skin Wounds
A reader recounts using Doan's Ointment after a leg injury failed to heal under doctors care. The product brought noticeable improvement after several applications and fully healed the wound with no recurrence. Sold by chemists and storekeepers at 2/9 per pot, or post paid by Foster Alchemist Co, 13 Forray Street, Perth.
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Koopa
Dean
Donn
Foster AleChian Co
Forray Street
Perth
Doan
Princess Louise of Belgium Tells of Turmoil and Tragedy
In a Daily Mail excerpt from Princess Louise of Belgium's account, she recalls surviving the Karo catastrophe and recounts divorces and detentions, noting tumult in her young marriage and a web of royal scandal. She claims Rudolph of Austria faced fatal reckoning and that Mary Vetsera’s influence doomed the Crown Prince.
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Daily Mail
Prince Louise
Belgium
Leopold III
Prince Phillip of
Saxe Coburg
Towive
Stephanie
Rudolph
Austria
Mary Vetsora
Mary
Whipent
Ats Soiree
Vienna
Meyerling
Electric grocer’s shop opened by electric current
In Colorado a grocer’s shop is described where electricity powers all tasks. A London paper notes the customer enters and the store functions automatically with the bin opening the scales weighing the purchase, and navies holding the bag, while the grocer simply takes the money.
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Colorado
London
Deaf Telegraphist Marvels At Ingenious Hearing Aid
A Indian telegraph supervisor faced dismissal until he devised a clever method to read Morse by biting a stick and touching the instrument. By resting one end on the table and the other in his teeth he felt vibrations and taps, enabling him to decode messages up to about 30 words per minute. He could hear or feel Morse clicks and read rapid messages, impressing other operators.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
N Ates
India
Stone Sons
Bin
Northam Fire Brigade Demonstration Committee Report
The Northam Fire Brigade Demonstration Committee presents an audited statement of receipts and expenditure from Easter time events. It notes misjudgments in profits, highlights large costs for bill posting, pedestrian sports, and trotting pay, and cites profit from advertising and printing despite overall financial setback. The report thanks volunteers and supporters, including Lionel Throssell and W. Thomas & Co, and claims nonfinancial success for the town and brigade.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Northam Fire Brigade
Geraldton
Wnon
Lattle
Gates
Alstot
Lionel Throssell
E. J. Delaney
Trian Sports
Northam Agricultural Society
Uae
W. Thomas and Co. Ltd
Jim Hanna
Fremantle Trades Hall Audit and Odd Anecdotes
Secretary C G Curlewis notes accounting oddities including a seven pound item and missing goods, with a 16 pound 18 shilling balance. Perth reports the Fremantle District Council backs an extraordinary audit of Fremantle Trades Hall books. Nearby jokes recount an elderly man walking miles and tramline fright anecdotes.
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Fremantle Trades Hall
Perth
Fremantle District Council
A.S.P
A Pacific Paradise Island Taxation Tale
A Pacific Paradise island hosts an odd society with few poor and no clans, where barter prevails and money lies scarce. A single inhabitant is a lawyer who acts as rural adviser. no motor cars exist, transport relies on sulkies, and one owner once mounted a car engine in a boat. The piece notes potential brain-wracked taxpayers fleeing taxation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kouta
Newest fashions in Leach's Pamil journal
The September issue showcases stylish designs including a trio frock, an attractive jumper and blouse, and one piece frocks. It features new jumpers skirts and lingerie, with patterns and coloring tips. Available from Gordon and Gotch Australasia Ltd through news agents.
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Leach
Frooke
all_newsagents
Gordon and Gotch (Australasia) Ltd
Prices Half a Century Ago In South Australia
A fragment from a book describes Mount Barker climate with crops like wheat oats hay and berries. It lists wages for general servants blacksmiths carpenters tailors and miners, and pays for ore work and refinery labor, set in Burra Port Elliot and Saint Vincent Bay.
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Burraker
Port Elliot
Mt. Barker
Mount Barker
Burra
Minera
Mechanice
Mates Saints Baye Ea
Cord of Death and the Silent Trap Release
A report describes a plotted execution method using three cords stretched across a table to release a trap door. Each cord is cut simultaneously to obscure which strand triggered the fall, ensuring none of the men can identify the culprit.
Cheater Jones Bet Slips Case Proceeds Briefly
A Bow Street case against a bookmaker fined for street betting sees police apply to destroy betting slips found on him. The dialogue notes the slips’ value exceeds the fine, and a magistrate hints at restoring the slips to prevent profit from the case.
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Suacase
Bow-stresh
Cheater Jones
Chester Jones
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YATES
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Baker
Baker’s
Fitzgerald Street
Prn
Receipt Books
Dodgers
THE
Northam Courier
Goomalling
Dowerin Mail
E. J. McKenzie
Pugh
White Australia
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R. L. Baxter
Dowerin
Douglas
Elmo
H. G. Hamilton
Box
Dowkein
United Theatres & Films
His Majesty's
W. A. Ruediger
J. M. Drummond & Co
Mechanics' Institute
Northam Telephone
R. J. Rosins
and E. Dryer
Ruediger
Iigerald Street
Australia
Steedman's Boot Palace
Westock
Army Boots
Phillips
A. E. Shaw
Manufacturing
W. P. Dempster
Peel Terrace
A. E. Freind
H. Daff
Mr. Bennett
C. G. Curlewis
N.B
Railway Department
Pacific
Paradise
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