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Newspaper
Peak Hill Express
Location
Peak Hill, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Jun 15, 1906
Page
11
Werres a Baldery correspondent reports anxious locals want a railway to Cumnock. Some farmers offer £50 to see it within a year or two, urging Cumnock Progress Association to take up the cause with Baldry pledging full support.
A playful riddle about English irregularities and misused verb forms. The poem questions why plural and tense rules vary, asking why two mice aren’t mouses and why certain past forms like hung and thought differ from common patterns. It ponders spelling shifts and irregular verbs with humorous curiosity.
A Molong Express informant states that of about 400 rabbits skinned daily, more than 150 show hydatide or scab and worse. The note urges investigation of meat inspection at state canneries amid reports of cancerous rabbit products entering the market.
An Australian society established in Melbourne aims to cultivate national spirit, inspire self reliance, promote industry, urge people to work for the common good, consume local products, preserve racial purity, and uphold a positive view of Australia.
Practical tips on preserving mirrors from sun damage and improving coffee aroma with salt. It suggests fumigating hands to remove poultry odors and using ground ginger as a substitute plaster. It also covers salting mustard to prevent drying and using alcohol on lamp chimneys to remove smoke traces.
In Melbourne two women received three months each for approaching jurors in a case. In Perth Western Australia an operation on a woman for a supposed tumor revealed five inch surgical forceps left in the abdomen from a prior operation, puncturing the intestines.
Brief mentions cover voting literacy limits, a miner’s death at Parkes hospital, upcoming visits by the Governor General to Parkes and Forbes, a judge’s dismissal over oath issues, wheat acreage in Grenfell, a Victorian bequest for emigration funds, an art union for Carcoar School of Arts, and figures on maritime losses, rabbit-proof fencing tenders, and a mine reef discovery near Burraga. Also notes on a Baltic wreck rate, crested stationery costs, sheep movements to Peak Hill, and land openings in Molong and Nanami totaling about 2,050 acres at 6s 8d per acre.
A Queensland journalist writes to Zam-Buk reprior to extol the balm's virtues after a long illness including dengue fever and hemorrhoids. He credits three large pots of Zam-Buk with restoring health and urges its broad availability from medicine vendors at 1/6 and 3/6 per pot.
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