Wheat standards and dairy reform push across colonies
Dubbo Show schedules prize list worth over £700 with Electric Trot of £100 to repeat. at Runnymede 1200 cows milked daily by 23 machines as part of a large dairy farm conversion costing nearly £30,000. Rockefeller donates £18 million to US education. others note humorous farming anecdotes and tax forms rush.
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Sydney
Bulgandra
Locke
J. W. Parsons
Coradgery
Dubbo
Dubbo P. A. and H. Association
Runnymede Station
Richmond
Runnymede
J.D. Rockefeller
General Educational Board of
United States
Drowning Fatality in Bores Creek near Orange
A Manildra resident, Mr Dacey, was drowned in Bores Creek after a thunderstorm swelled the stream. He left a wife and children. he ran a Manildra store and dealt in goods. The report notes a plague scare in Sydney and local council actions on burrs and thistles.
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Dacey
Manildra
Bores Creek
Orange
Anildra
Sydney
Gunnehale
World of oddities and curiosities from old papers
A mosaic of historical curiosities from eight centuries of England and beyond. Notable facts touch famines, railway costs, the Crown, China famine, bleeding powders, slave ships, famous diamonds, London lore, diets, railway trucks, extremes of height, Oklahoma town names, early settlers, a rain prayer ritual, bazaar novelty, and a wedding cake concealing a marriage certificate offering a cost-free wedding.
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England
Canadian Pacific Railway
Britain
China
America
Orloff
T. B. Hitching
London
Josephus
Oklahoma
Tipperusalem
Tipperary
Jerusalem
Springside Wesleyan Chapel
Rawtenstall
Eng
J. Bennetts
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Local & General News
Rosa Erb
Logan’s Port
Indiana
Cadal Council
Parkes Farmers’ and Settlers’ Association
Chamber of Commerce
F.a.g. Standard
Lands (Taxation) Department
Crown
Times
Peak Hill
Malouf’s
MRS. M. Malouf & Son
Oas
Wiilist
Phaeh Hitt
Port Macnarie
Qualmer
Twin
Roy Hotel
Gibson Bros
J, Jackson
Mungery
Sira
Matthews
H. A. Baird
Pitt, Son & Badgery, Ltd
C. W. Barnett
District
E. Dunn
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