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Newspaper
Peak Hill Express
Location
Peak Hill, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Dec 06, 1907
Page
10
Baldery Sale Ma F May of Balderodgery aims to disperse property and return to Oanaha. She has instructed Musers Pearce and Williams of Parkes to hold an auction sale soon, with full details to be announced in this paper.
Peak Hull asks for a remedy for the pumpkin beetle a small black and red beetle that sucks the sap and leaves plants barren. The banded pumpkin beetle or pumpkin ladybird beetle is described and kerosene mixed with lime or ash dusting suggested as controls.
In Parliament the Federal member Mr. Tom Brown asked the Treasurer about future policy on Dr. Danyaz rabbit disease experiments and potential introduction to the mainland. The Treasurer said he had not been approached, would consult the Prime Minister, and that the government had not yet decided. It was previously decided not to liberate diseased rabbits on the mainland, a view he still held.
A playful 19th century domestic list admonishes wives to love and obey their husbands. It lampoons strict gender roles with tongue in cheek rules about household duties, dress, and honesty within marriage, ending with a quip about expecting nothing on anniversaries.
A reader notes biliousness is not constitutional and potentially curable with Chamberlain's Tablets. The item cites liver issues and advises dietary control, mentioning A. W. Taylor & Co and Tomlogheys as possible sellers.
A list of horse draw entries with owners and stakes from Fleming ton Victoria dated Tuesday November 1907 shows Apologue Moolian Mountain King and Mooltan in multiple places. Subscriptions and amounts range from 1000 to 12000 pounds with owners across Australia and beyond including Sydney Cairns Brisbane Melbourne and Beyrouth.
A mix of short items notes on odd causes of illness, deaths from eating cherries, legal fines for overdriving a hired carriage, fights at a cricket match, calls for coal nationalization, dire warnings about patent medicines, a court ruling on cattle agistment liability, mining news from Orange Plains, and betting fever in Sydney Melbourne and federal capital debates.
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