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Newspaper
Peak Hill Express
Location
Peak Hill, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Oct 27, 1905
Page
4
A weary girl named Liza follows a backbreaking farm routine under her drunken father and a vanished love. Bill returns, she greets him, but discovers she is married, ending with Liza turning away from the harrows alone on the hill.
A wedding gift list for Mr and Mrs Edwards of Kurrajong Tomingley records numerous name entries and items received including silver and glassware sets butters bases salad bowls and tableware from relatives and friends such as Maker Brothers Reilly Brothers and Crowhurst along with assorted cookware and decorative pieces. The document enumerates gifts from W Edwards W Gibson J Langan B J Edwards and others reflecting a traditional community exchange.
A farmer laments a broken fence and rising rabbit infestation on Dooley’s land. The speaker admits assigning poison and labor to cope, while hoping a Board inspector will understand his radical pest control methods and equal share of the burden. The poem alternates between dawn and night scenes as rabbits multiply along the crimson farm fence.
Me George Adame of Albury N S endorses Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy as a cure for bowel complaints. He recounts a country trip where one dose relieved a friend with colic. The remedy is sold by Gibson Bros Peak Hill and J W Lens Tomingley. What tricks are the most common in Ireland Patricks.
The item records a location reference noting DILAGY'S adjacent to Stephens' Dispensary, identifying the nearby business as a point of orientation.
Various homestead selections and freehold tracts around Peak Hill offered for sale. Listings include 2560 acres with 1200 acres, 170 acres at £1 10s, 1280 acres well improved with cleared 280 acres under wheat, and 600 acres with river frontage. Prices range from 15s to 30s per acre.
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