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Newspaper
Peak Hill Express
Location
Peak Hill, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Oct 19, 1906
Page
5
Patrick Joseph Atkins pleaded guilty to stealing two mares, Chorus and Miss Gladstone, owned by Jas. Murphy of Forbes, at Bathurst Circuit Court before Mr Justice Cohen. He was remanded for sentence.
Mr Tousy Catney of Orange faced a flood on the Orange road between Forbes and Eugowra while driving 11 000 sheep belonging to Captain Claude Smith from Molong for shearing. They were saved by a sandhill and remained perched for three days and nights as water subsided, watched anxiously by Mr Cullen and Catney.
The ad promotes Chamberlains Pain Balm for strains sprains and bruises with immediate relief and reduced swelling. It lists A. W. Taylor & Co Peak Hill and J. W. Lees Tomingley as dealers for the product.
A stray bag of unslaked lime in a piano aims to quiet strings while a flood in Walgett marks a decade's high rain. Amid sales, accidents, and odd notes, a range of small-town events unfolds from a shooting misfire near Camden to a miner’s death at Cow Flat and a coffin found in Eastwood School Art.
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