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Newspaper
Peak Hill Express
Location
Peak Hill, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Feb 22, 1907
Page
7
A worker seeks a good job with clean hands and fair pay. He is offered a spade instead of a pen, but he digs with steadfast effort. Time passes, Rome jeers, yet he labors hard and keeps a song in his heart. At last they swap the spade for a pen as success arrives.
A rifle match is set for Saturday afternoon at the local range with teams from the McPhail and Peak Hill Sporting Rifle Clubs. Peak Hill's team includes E. Bailey as captain and players C Barnett G Charters W Garrick J Hutchins W Hutchins E McLean C J Morris Murray and H Schmidt with emergencies A N Davey J Reilly and R Stewart. Shooting starts at 2 oclock and after the match Peak Hill will entertain McPhail members at Mrs McAtamneys Carrington Hotel.
The Myalis Peak Hill Band Tar Secretary Mr Jas Kitto announces the event is postponed due to a hall hire error. The Town Band had secured the hall nine months earlier, Easter Monday marks their anniversary, and the group aims to avoid clashing with others while thanking friends who offered services and promising to reschedule.
A loan clerk and an accomplice robbed Tut Budapest Innerstadien Savings Bank of 12500 pounds using a forged letter from a supposed landowner claiming funds for a Vienna purchase. The money was drawn in six instalments before the scam was detected. authorities recovered most of the funds and arrested both suspects as the landowner’s contact yielded no urgent payment.
A publican's booth used for St Patrick's Day sports is slated for auction, with details highlighting the sale event and the venue. The notice indicates the item will be offered to morro or interested buyers under the auction process.
At the Kempsey Council meeting the Mayor urged a law requiring insurance firms to lodge with councils a public inspection list of risks on buildings and stock. He noted overloads threaten the town, and while not pressing immediate action, he asked aldermen to consider the move, which found general favor.
Mr J T McInnes, famed Queensland journalist, writes to Zam-Buk backers praising the healing balm. He recounts dengue fever and severe bowel troubles, claims Zam-Buk cured a suspected prolapse after three large pots, urges public use. Available from medicine vendors at 1/6 and 3/6, with four times 14 size labels.
The President and Secretary of the local Railway League as Express representative were invited by Tomingley League to lunch with the Public Works Committee tomorrow. Other items note fortune telling by Moeyer Singh and a tragic suicide by Lydia Schraper in Rupanyup, linked to ill health and a broken engagement.
The article urges farmers to pair brawn with brains, pride in farming, and orderly, beautiful, productive farms. It highlights milking practice, the rising importance of silos as crops fall, horse vision issues, and dairy profitability from a good cow. It advises gentle horse handling and notes flies worsen wounds. iodoform repels insects.
A vivid advertisement proclaims a grand shop supplying everything for mothers and chicks, poultry farmers, and daily life. It promises food, clothing, fashion, and practical items from baby boots to old man’s pants, with playful phrases about hats, neckties, bacon, tea, toffee, tobacco, and tissue paper.
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