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Newspaper
Peak Hill Express
Location
Peak Hill, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Jan 19, 1906
Page
9
Premier informed of a fire at Tufra station in the Riverina district blamed on phosphorised pollard bait. An employee had laid bait when a blaze erupted destroying about 300 acres of grass. Police report supports bait as the cause. bait mix included pollard treacle phosphorus water and carbon.
Jeazre Hoaptey reportedly earned £200,000 in five minutes on the Cotton Exchange in New York with total daily profits said to reach four times that sum. A sudden price surge sent buying into a frenzy as 700000 bales traded in the last hour amid a panic over ginning totals and looming supply. Pandemonium followed before holders cooled prices and market activity slowed.
Gregra correspondent notes five wheat varieties sent by the Department of Agriculture for local testing. Sown May 12 and harvested December 18 with Plover maturing nine days later, yields ranged from 23 to 28 pounds per bushel. Bobs ripened first. Plover and Tarragon were later. rust and smut absent. results considered satisfactory for a good season.
The advertisement touts Dr Sheldon’s Magnetic Liniment as a quick pain reliever for children’s cuts burns and bruises. It urges mothers to keep a bottle at home and claims rapid relief and faster recovery, with C F Stephens as the seller.
Chief Inspector Jonas reports no funds yet available for wire netting supplies or loans to Pastures Protection Boards. Government is reviewing procedures and will repay costs in installments over up to twenty years at 5 percent interest. Landholders are urged to apply through local Pastures Protection boards.
A vivid tale on dykes and floods describing Holland’s precarious seas and a boy who halts a leak to save villages. It closes with a call to faith, presenting Jesus Christ as the savior who bore mankind’s punishment for eternal life.
An old notice extols Chamberlains Stomach and Liver Tablets as the best medicine for stomach liver and bowel disorders. It claims to have restored hundreds to health and urges sufferers from loss of appetite indigestion insomnia nervousness and biliousness to try them. Available from Gitson Bros Peak Hill and J W Lea Tomingley.
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