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Newspaper
Peak Hill Express
Location
Peak Hill, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Aug 04, 1905
Page
14
A collage of humorous anecdotes from rural life includes Clancey’s barroom bravado with a stool pigeon, rain prayers answered in Bathurst, a sharp takedown of newspaper borrowers, a hotel squatter exchange, aldermen and poisons talk, and fond notes on the value of the bush whacker. The piece pokes fun at city slickers, travelers, and station life, wrapping with a quip on a bushman’s pipe habit.
Local dealer advertises a large varied stock of stationery tobacco cigars and supplies. He claims to buy cheap and sell at the lowest prices and offers his A to Z knowledge for customers benefit. Includes genuine Singer machine needles.
A subscription to the Peak Hill edition is four per quarter payable in advance with a higher rate of four pounds per quarter if booked. The charges remain unchanged despite the Express growing from twelve to sixteen pages.
A reprinted extract describes public functions where all classes mingle little and social distinctions persist at leisure. Aristocrats cluster at one end while outsiders stay apart. yet boards and committees see cooperation. Cliques affect clubs, cricket, choir, and amateur productions more in pastoral towns than mining districts.
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