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Newspaper
Peak Hill Express
Location
Peak Hill, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Feb 02, 1906
Page
15
Local cyclist Jack Hennessy finished third in the two mile Wheel Race at Trundle on a day with 32 nominations. Alf Millgate was unplaced in the Sheffield. Stewart, a West Australian rider, won both events.
Arthur Bolton of Bolton Bros Bendigo narrates a severe bout of summer complaint. He explains he initially ignored it but soon sought Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy after a local chemist supplied a kettle. He recalls the pain stopping after the first dose and being restored to health. The product is advertised as available at Gibson Bros Peak Hill and J W Leos Tomingley.
Weeden Bryant showed a bronze Royal Agricultural Society of NSW medal awarded to his father James H. Bryant for science. He displayed corn paper and noted his father ran Mataura Mills where New Zealand’s first paper was made, with the first sheet still in his possession.
The piece discusses the need for adapting daily routines to hot weather. It argues that people endure extreme heat from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. due to habit, suggesting a shift to cooler hours for work and shopping to avoid unnecessary sweating. It frames the current schedule as a constraint on sensible living.
Sensation grips Hillston when an elderly man named Robert Shannon confronts Mr. Boland P M near the police station. After a greeting the assailant asks about a pension, fires wounding Boland in the nose and wrist and shoulder. Shannon then shoots himself, dying instantly.
A Toora bush fire near a mountain swept in a single sheet of flame as children leaving school tried to return. Mrs Lonsdale saved the six younger children and the baby, while the 17 year old daughter escaped by creek water. Eleven or twelve lives were reported lost with 28 children sheltered by a teacher and 800 men fighting the flames. Fears rose for 3000 acres of crops destroyed.
A Carlton Victoria parent recalls three months of whooping cough for his daughter despite medical advice. After reading a Chamberlain's Cough Remedy advertisement in a small paper, he gave it a trial and reports a perfect cure. The product is sold by Gibson Bros Peak Hill and J W Lees Tomingley.
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