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Newspaper
Peak Hill Express
Location
Peak Hill, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Mar 02, 1906
Page
9
The article outlines a tanning method for rabbit skins involving washing to remove flaky matter, cleaning hair with warm water and soap, and a salt alum borax rye meal slurry applied to the flesh side. After ten days to two weeks, the mixture is removed, skins are washed, and stretched. A second salt alum treatment may be used for heavy skins.
A man advertises for a boy not afraid of work and a young applicant questions the meaning. The boy argues for a balance of fear and control, describing wrestling with work to master it. The interviewer approves, and the job is offered.
A lone old man outside a rugged tent dreams of bygone Channel Isles and distant Yukon memories. He recalls crossing the Continent, Lamping Flat, Bendigo goldfields, and losses that left him grey and charitable. The fading sun seals his weary steps toward rest.
Crown Battery informs miners and others interested in crushing stone that after a thorough overhaul it now can crush stone in any quantity and treat tailings by cyanide. Special arrangements with the proprietor H. Ingoldby are available to encourage district mineral resource development.
R. J. Edwards of Tomingley lists services as stock station and general commission agent for London and Lancashire Fire Insurance Co. and brands Ideal Pom Pom Poison Distributors Koershy Patent Wool Presses Perfect Cream Separators Cyclone Woven Wire Fence and Gate Company with prompt order service.
A persuasive early 20th century advertisement claims washing days age women faster than men and promotes Sunlight Soap as a safer, milder method. It argues hot water, steam, and boiling harm health and offers lukewarm washing with less rubbing for whiter whites and brighter colors.
Sir Evelyn Woop recounts Crimean War tales of battlefield grit. A sergeant vows to shoot a cowardly private, falls to grapeshot, Captain Burnsbey charges the foe, and Private Bancroft kills multiple Russians amid brutal hand to hand combat. Bancroft is bayoneted, fights on, and earns kicks from the guardsman to prevent kicking a downed foe.
A Mittagong letter protests against funding a School of Arts. The writer accuses locals of Little learning and gossip, claiming financial concerns, a hostile town view, and suggesting renaming the institution to School of Scandal to gain subscribers while questioning expenditure cuts.
Sufferers of Rheumatism Lambago urged to try Dr Sheldon’s Magnetic Liniment said to ease pain after single and continued use. Sold by O F Stephens with price listed.
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