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Newspaper
Peak Hill Express
Location
Peak Hill, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Sep 07, 1906
Page
20
The writer rails at misread Socialism and defends New Zealand and Australia from caricature. He notes drought, water waste, and calls for better use of watercourses and settler expansion. He mocks metropolitan bias, praises country presses, and urges rail fare reforms to aid rural districts. Public baths at Peak Hill are urged amid water shortages.
A compilation notes Wellington municipal rates exceeding £2000, New Zealand spent £780,000 on estates for settlement, and 779 people mostly Germans naturalised in Australia this year. It mentions Melbourne Cup winner Blue Spec’s owner as luckiest today, fox cubs found at Nelungaloo, and NZ bill restricting firearm sales to youths. It also quotes Holman criticizing caucus members, Clement Wragge on earthquakes, Erebus and Terror eruptions forecast, a £40,000 Lyceum Theatre bequest to the Methodist Church, a doctor’s coffin surgery door screw story, two miners burnt to death at Meredith, and the Prince of Wales praising the British climate.
A fragment promotes varied diets and claims Digestive Tubules will digest food to create a new person, giving strength and life. Gibson Bros advertises the product for sale.
Cuyler Hastings, noted American actor formerly with Williamson Dramatic Company, reports severe chest cold from stage exposure. He credits Dr Sheldon’s New Discovery with rapid relief after first dose and full recovery within days. Recommends the remedy for bad coughs. Gibson Bros. carries it.
A Sydney piece quotes Albert Samuel Tuck praising Clements Tonic for easing long standing liver and kidney ailments. He describes severe pain and digestive issues followed by a dramatic recovery after using the tonic, claiming restored appetite digestion sleep and health.
Albert Samuel Tuck of 130 Campbell Street St Peters New South Wales declares the attached document of three folios is a true faithful account of his illness and cure by Clements Tonic. He states consent to publication of his writings without payment and signs before George Farr J.P. at St Peters on November 7 1904.
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