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Newspaper
Peak Hill Express
Location
Peak Hill, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Mar 08, 1907
Page
17
The article surveys Sydney’s crowded legal and chemical trades, noting law and patent pills firms flood the market. It contrasts country family choices with city careers, highlighting drapery and clerical wages and the abundance of wait staff in metropolitan establishments.
The text observes widespread sweating in business houses and poverty among girls earning as little as £1 a week after feeding and clothing themselves. It notes many factory workers earn far less than £18 weekly and warns of bleak prospects for Sydney's boys and girls across professions trades and business. It clarifies it aims to inform country readers without de meaning Sydney or city life.
A period of dullness passes but the Wheat column urges patience not to rush to market. Expect keen demand next week and advise steady consignments. Reports show sales over 6000 bags and Manitoba grower support with imports of fifty tons of No 1 hard Manitoba seed at coat price through Lindley Walker & Co of Mark Lane Sydney.
Rumors claim an incendiary started the Molong Hospital fire damaging the infectious ward. The Arcus notes hospital costs exceed 200 pounds and urges a thorough inquiry despite some suspicious circumstances surrounding the blaze.
A ragged OCR snippet presents a string of jokes and puns about willpower, gardens, coins, and rabbits plus a dubious note on a medicine claimed to cure chronic constipation. It lists vendors A W Taylor Co and others, with fragmented place names Dominglaye J and Puale Bibo.
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