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Newspaper
Peak Hill Express
Location
Peak Hill, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Oct 26, 1906
Page
15
A rustic verse describes a troublesome horse named Tommy waking early to plow land. The speaker jokes at Tommy’s behavior, plans to harness him for work, and notes weather and drought affecting crops while asserting sturdy Anglo Saxon resilience and expectancy of rain.
General Booth, at age 78, offered concise advice for aging well. He urged eating to satisfy, not overeat, drinking pure water, regular exercise and manual labor, balance between body and mind, reasonable rest, avoiding frivolous pleasures, avoiding overtaxing indulgences, and living with a single guiding purpose that serves others as well as self.
A town ironmonger posts a notice outside his shop explaining he can no longer sell goods cheaply. He reveals he is about to marry and urges customers to buy at the old low price while it remains available. The announcement emphasizes his previous low pricing due to bachelor status and lack of family maintenance.
Fragmentary OCR passage references a society weekly and its proprietor, noting readers should browse it. It cites Thorn, 21,715 dales in wool earnings, and mentions arrivals at Arlington March or similar, with a line about a man asking where a road goes and a character Bushy responding about not going elsewhere.
In a rough tale from New South Wales, Sandy Owens wins a local race at Possum Flat where prizes are odd items like a dingo trap and a greenhide whip. The crowd mobs the stranger after his win, shouting to spare him, as bees, blankets, and blame circulate in a chaotic finish.
In Algiers courts a suit exceeding £1,600,000 involves multiple French and Spanish families named Qoll against the self-styled widow of a Spanish officer. The case hinges on whether the deceased was French or Spanish, and whether the valet Rippolli rightfully held the estate after impersonating the heir. The tangled history includes treachery, murder fears, and a dying sister whose testimony vanished.
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