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Newspaper
Numurkah Leader
Location
Numurkah, Victoria, Australia
Date
Jun 25, 1923
Page
1
An advertisement from McEvoy & Co at 58 Market Street Melbourne promotes available money trusts and other moneys on country land. It emphasizes large availability and the lowest interest rates for term loans.
A fragmentary ad announces Murka Store opening on Telville Street near Court Hots with a focus on stock including tea, sugar, fruit, jam, and wholesale items. The garbled copy highlights prices and a rummaging rommongery department, suggesting a general store sales pitch.
The Royal Stores Numurkan advertises value in house furnishings and hardware. It lists Chesterfield suites, tapestry and 3 piece options, beds, wardrobes, tables, cane chairs, curtains, rugs, bedding, and blinds with prices from £5 to £19. The ad highlights oak maple blackwood furniture, sideboards, mattresses, and grocery quality items under city prices.
A. B. Jaffray and A. W. Thomson Junr promote Wahling and Birthday Cakes and offer the very best bread and small goods. They cater for picnics balls and weddings and provide a wide range of bakery products in Numurkah.
The Nomurkah Hotel offers airy bedrooms and a clean dining room with a well ventilated atmosphere. The house provides a modernized stock of liquid refreshments and a spacious yard, welcoming former patrons and new friends alike.
Care and line care guardoute agency represents Ruston and Hernby engines and farm machinery exporters. Provides service and maintenance coordination for heavy machinery clients across agricultural operations.
In a Wednesday petty sessions divan, James Smith faced a 2 shillings debt claim for schooling omissions. Frederick W Ensiedel sued Daniel Gillespie for £1 3s for goods. cheque timing and dates were disputed, with a magistrate dismissing the case and ordering 1 11s costs. Larceny charges against Lawrence Woolahon were dismissed after witnesses testified to lending and returning a horse and harness. the magistrate found no felonious intent but noted potential charges for illegal use of a horse.
A historical ad style piece extols Doan's Ointment as the safest remedy for piles with a testimonial from Mr W Stratton of Madeline Street Numurkat claiming lasting relief after four pots. It notes price 2/9 per pot and distributor Foster-McClellan Co Sydney. The text then shifts to a unrelated note about earth weighing and magazine content in My Magazine June issue.
Public health advisory notes outbreaks of influenza whooping cough and measles across Australia with pneumonia fatalities in some cases. Recommends regular mouth throat and stomach treatments using Heenzo mixture or Heenzo Diamonds for relief and prevention as a family preparation. Mentions Hotel The Farmers Arms Hotel managed by Mrs D. E Trainor and services in Nathalia and Shepparton with loan and tracing commissions.
Maud Faderser of Golden Gully Bendigo reports relief from a seven month tubercular leg condition after three weeks of Ack Hing herbal treatment. She credits improved knee movement, reduced pain, and urges others with tubercular trouble to try the doctor’s methods.
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