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Newspaper
Peak Hill Express
Location
Peak Hill, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Jul 01, 1904
Page
4
Daniel Gleeson, a railway guard at Molong, was severely scalded when steam escaped from a valve as he passed the engine. Golfers remain Molong’s only champions after recent losses by football and cricket teams. Parkes club defeated them on Wednesday the 1st. The surge in political meetings is yielding good returns for the town Hall investment.
Light but helpful rain fell during the week, a small but valuable gain for farmers and crops. The earlier gloomy outlook brightens as soil moisture improves and prospects improve for the season.
The late Miss Manson, sister of the leader of J. Manson and Co., wills £200 to Forbes Hospital. The old hospital portion's bricks and materials were sold by public auction on Saturday last and rented for £20.
Rain began to fall in Forbes on Monday. By Thursday about 52 points were registered. Work at the focal gasworks progresses satisfactorily and lighting improves. The gas lamps provide better illumination. Voter interest in the P P Board director election was very low, with little turnout by candidates or ratepayers.
Around Grenfell a revival of sleeper-getters brings activity with about thirty men at work. P A Madden sells 850 ewes and 500 lambs to J C Holmes for 1000 pounds, while R Beath reports a deep lead at Goonigal with 220 feet depth and 30 foot wide payable wash yielding 10 pounds per load, water scarcity delaying sluicing.
A dated ad and anecdote describe Bronchial zhu cures offered by Woods and a Burraga district complaint about an epidemic of people leaving without paying. A comic exchange shows a Chinaman and a chemist in a playful scene, referencing a supposed Great Peppermint Cure and a mispronounced medical product.
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