09 Dec 1930
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Newspaper
Numurkah Leader
Location
Numurkah, Victoria, Australia
Date
Dec 09, 1930
Page
1
The Dictor suggests tea as the cause of illness and recommends continuing tea use. He directs the patient to Royal Stores for Ceylon tea, biscuits, Puff Wheat, Rice Bubbles, and fresh ground coffee, asserting these notes will restore well being.
The piece traces Father Christmas to Saint Nicholas of Myra dating to the fourth century and explains the evolution to Santa Claus and Father Christus. It notes Christmas gift giving dates back 2000 years, the global rise of the custom, and Australia's large gift market and manufacturing dynamics. It adds caution about child deception and contrasts European and domestic practices.
A vintage testimonial touts Doan's Ointment as the safest pile remedy for itching and protruding cases. It claims rapid relief with daily use and cites Mr W Stratton of Madeline street Numurkah who says four pots cured years ago and has had no trouble since. The ad emphasizes worldwide popularity and routine household use.
Australian shoppers are urged to buy locally produced goods for Christmas gifts. The piece promotes choosing Australian made items to ensure threefold excellence: personal joy, recipient happiness, and supporting fellow Australians by providing employment.
The Prince of Wales favors a 200 by 12 foot putting green on the Empress of Britain sun deck. Gardening at sea is fashionable with a greenhouse on the Majestic and crops grown aboard. A poem spoofs shipboard hobbies with golf on a rolling sea and maritime perils.
Fragments promote Bisulated as instant relief after meals or when indigestion occurs. Claims include neutralising stomach acid, stopping fermentation, soothing inflamed stomach, and restoring digestion. The garbled text shows misprints and unclear packaging details.
Church notices list next Sunday services across denominations in Numurkah Katunga Katamatite Cobram Coram Nearing Drumanute Wunghnu Bunbartha Marungi Youanmite and Ka Tamatite with times 7.30 11 3 7.0 and 7.50 led by Rev Sharpe Rev Patterson Rev Fletcher Rev Chaston and Mr Fowler Delarue Val noted.
Wool sales activity remains buoyant with 4000 bales catalogued mainly from Victoria and Riverina NSW. Competition was keen across buyer groups, highest price to date reached 4d for Dingley Doulvlin merino from Bairnsdale. final auction before Christmas set for December 16 with steady to slightly softer levels compared to November.
The notice promises a hotel conducted on right lines and emphasizes dependable bi t service for customers.
A promotional notice urging farmers to revitalize sams for a bigger wheat harvest and abundant pastures. It promotes Lamace Superphosphates for soil vitality and richer yields, warning against Tuck and recommending top-dress with Laniaco Super phosphates. Available from storekeepers or New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co. Ltd., Box 4306, G.P.O., Melbourne.
Mrs E Grey, dressmaker on Stewart Street Numurkah opposite the railway station offers good cut and fit with moderate charges.
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