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Newspaper
Peak Hill Express
Location
Peak Hill, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Mar 09, 1906
Page
11
W G Dowzina of Forbes describes a method to prepare phosphorised pollard for rabbits. The process uses phosphorus, water, bran or pollard, salt and cinnamon and requires constant stirring until the mix is finished. The note warns that the poison must be prepared safely and stirred continuously to be effective.
An Australian, Griffo, famed as the world’s top science-boxer, is said to have won a rich widow’s affection, married her, and now tours Chicago in a diamond-clad car. He politely declines admirers who urge him to box or irrigate, and the piece laments the potential downfall of the Rocks boy fate.
A local tale from Mount Gambier tells of a young butcher who exposed a conspiracy to fleece cattle buyers. He alerted a drover with 100 head, bought the mob himself, then funded the sale for the drover to auction. The conspirators bid up the cattle but were outbid, ending with the epail not reaching the drover but the intended victim.
The notice recommends Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy to control diarrhoea in teething children and suggests an occasional castor oil dose to cleanse the system. For sale by Gibson Bros Peak Hill and J W Leos Tomingley.
Parents are urged to send boys aged 8 to 16 to the Lifebuoy Ten at Rechabite Hall Euchie Street. Meetings are every alternate Wednesday at 7 p.m. An entrance fee of 6d includes a rules book. biweekly 3d contributions fund future benefits. Members aged 16 move to the Adult Tent. a funeral allowance of £10 is paid if death occurs after six months. Signatories: C J Monnis J H Yours or W Freer.
Western jockey Teppy Stayrorp had a strange episode at Bega and later wandering from a hotel in a somnambulistic state. He was awakened by barking dogs and found his feet cut by broken glass, needing several days rest after returning to his room. Earlier he had previously wandered onto an 18ft balcony at Goulburn.
Eight people narrowly escaped death after a chaffcutting plant cut a hay stack at Red Camp Moyhu Victoria. Five horses and three cows fed on the stack dying soon after and five Evans family members plus three workers fell gravely ill. Doctor Boyes treated the sick, now out of danger. Fungus growth suspected from moisture under the hay stack contaminated stock and milk. An employee who used the milk in tea was less affected.
In Sydney readers are urged to visit Eden Photo Studios for high class portraits at cheap prices. Artist Proofs 20s per dozen, 12 x 10 productions and cabinets at 7s 6d per dozen. If unable to visit, send a portrait for enlargement to Eden Photo Studios George Street Sydney.
In a letter to the local P P Board Mr A J Tourn of Coobang Parkes district describes severe rabbit damage on his farm. He says 40 years of battling the pest left him with 400 acres under crop this season and heavy losses across wheat corn pumpkins potatoes while nine children depend on his harvest.
A frugal home remedy advises applying Chamberlan's Pain Balm with a dampened flannel to the small of the back for quick relief. bathe the afflicted area with Pain Balm and rub vigorously at each application. Available locally through Gibson Brow, Peak Britt 1 and J W Lees Tomingley.
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