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Newspaper
Peak Hill Express
Location
Peak Hill, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Oct 08, 1915
Page
10
Fragmentary text describes moon phases with references to New Moon and Full Moon dates and a cryptic inscription. Readers infer a calendar or ritual notation, mentioning first and second quarter markers and a mysterious term ROVE SUK.
A fragmented 19th century directory listing numerous trades and services such as auctioneers agents merchants and stokers milliners dressmakers shoemakers livery stables and carriages dentists teachers of music and printers. Names and places are partly legible including references to Fortes printing and various local trades.
Advance proof of the Spong and Summer Fashion Catalogue issued by Ball and Welch Ltd at SHYSL George St Sydney. The 100 page brochure features new plates on popular fashions and materials for the warm season and serves as a guide to drapery millinery and toilet requisites with value criteria. They offer to post the catalogue to interested readers.
Ida Binbee argues against conscription as a moral sin and urges defending the empire by sacrificing the youth. She denounces shirking men who avoid service while women bear risk and loss, urging unity to spare their sons and brothers from battlefield fear and brutality.
At Grafton Police Court Thomas Butcher, hotel proprietor, sued Arthur Jas Reynolds for wrongful imprisonment of Butcher's son. Reynolds, former Grafton Primary School head master now at Forbes, had distributed "Follow the Beng" pamphlets causing pupils to be detained during the activity. The defendant was fined.
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