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Newspaper
Peak Hill Express
Location
Peak Hill, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Sep 01, 1905
Page
11
A rural solicitor claimed his patented churn would yield two extra pounds of butter from a batch. The farmer agreed to test it, but after the salesman churned the cream in his device, no butter appeared. The farmer refused the sale, proving his own churn produced butter.
A draper's assistant attends a workmen's socialistic meeting with his master, then quits after doubting the fairness of equal sharing. He reveals that his own £40 bank balance beats the claimed £39 per person, refusing to lose his money to a sweeping redistribution. The tale ends with a moral for readers.
Advert says a new rabbit poison named Rabbbo will replace traps. It comes in tins sold by C F Stephens chemist and is claimed to kill instantly without mixing. A trapper named Richardson reports two hundred rabbits dead in one night using half a tin and praises Rabbo T.
The Department of Mines Sydney offers free assaying of small ore samples from NSW deposits to encourage prospecting. Samples must be addressed to the Government Chemist, weigh about 0.1 lb, not be crushed, include a distinguishing mark and a letter stating locality. Free gold visible samples and tailings assays are excluded and the dept may refuse any assay.
Advertising copy for men’s clothing announces first class Made to Measure suits at 2 2s with fit and style guaranteed. Orders for show week must be placed a fortnight before the event to ensure timely delivery. Weatherproof tweed macintoshes at 15/6 praised as defying rain as customers stay snug and comfortable.
The article sketches Eugowra near the Lachlan River, 23 miles east of Forbes and 66 miles from Orange, noting a post office, savings bank, several schools and churches, multiple shops, and a plea for railway access as with Peak Hill. It references a notorious gold escort robbery era and mentions an Express feature titled In the Old Days.
From our Correspondent in Cumnock the past fortnight brought severe frosts then warm sunny days with rain expected. Harvest shows promise though disputes flare in Molung and Cumnock Debating Societies. Wellington debaters visit on 18 September to discuss Trial by July. A stallion parade was sold, and a storekeeper reportedly bought a Lyndhurst business near Carcoar.
Many farmers wire-netting property including Kerin Brien and Boardman Brothers. Noyes Brothers of Sydney supply nets praised. Crops look well with extensive wheat area. A Progress Association ballot for officers on Saturday September 2. A cooperative hall on the share system planned with about twenty to support. A meeting to discuss the matter is convened for Saturday.
A writer notes that 1905 began on a Sunday and will end on a Sunday, containing 63 Sundays, a coincidence the author claims will not occur again for 110 years. The observation emphasizes the calendar's unusual pattern for the year.
A non subscribing man refuses to pay for a paper. his son borrows one, chaos ensues. The father crashes a barbed wire fence, injures himself, and ruins pants. The cow eats corn and dies, the wife spills cream and drowns kittens, teeth vanish, carpet is ruined, and a daughter elopes with the hired man. Calamity spreads as animals and possessions are destroyed.
Huieney achieved a triumph in Dr. Sheldon’s New Discovery for Coughs Colds and Consumption. Absolutely guaranteed. For sale by C F Stephens.
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