Dogs Must Be Registered This Month
Brief notices mention dog registration due this month, local social events, cricket meetings at Baldery Parkes on the 19th, and cricket club prospects at Peak Hill. Also reported are opal discoveries near White Cliffs, ironworks employment figures, rail plans to Trundle, and various local incidents and adverts including a nurse change and a rifle club start.
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Baldery
Parkes
Peak Hill
Sonoma
Sydney
San Francisco
Crick
Queensland
Bayliss
Bruie Plains
Caloola
Newbridge
White Cliffs
Lithgow Ironworks
Clyde Engineering
Maitland
I. J. Sloan
North Logan Station
Cowra
Penman
Corfe
Nuree Kelly
Melbourne
Matthews
Dubbo
A. G. Litchfield
Mesers, Roach
Mercantile Mutual Fire Insurance Co
Trundle
Condobolin Society
Royal Amalgamated Confraternity of
J. H. Tregaskia
Yeronger
J. H. Onrrathers
James Ashton
O. J. Cooper
Bank of Australasia
O Peak Hill
Cooper
Pink Hill
Sydney Trotting Club
Vic
Mining Accident at Great Cobar Copper Mine
Mr Janus Porotass of McPhail injured by a fall of earth at the 90 fathom level of the Great Cobar Copper Mine in Cobar. Nearby worker Mr Polglase sustained facial and head cuts and back injuries from the falling earth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Janus Porotass
McPhail
Cobar
Polglase
First Snakebite Sentinel at Albury Hospital
A colored man named James Robinson was admitted to the Albury Hospital after a rattlesnake bit his finger while trying to pull a rake free from under a log. He was bitten about twenty minutes before admission but survived, marking the first snakebite of the season at Albury.
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Albury
James Robinson
Nake
Robinson
Kensal Rise Upholsterer Murders His Family
Alfred Rogers an upholsterer living at Kensal Rise near London murdered two of his children and wounded another with a razor he also attacked his wife and brother. Poverty and starvation were cited as pressures contributing to the tragedy.
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Alfred Rogers
Kensal Rise
London
Burning Fatality Reported In Sudden House Fire
Ruby Boardman seven year old daughter of Mr John Boardman of Wall foom died after a burning log toppled and set her flannelette nightdress alight while she and a sister sat by an open fire on Thursday last.
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Ruby Boardman
John Boardman
Wall Foom
Man Lost in New Zealand Bush Survives Two Weeks
Holden, lost near Taumaranui in Wellington Province, survived two weeks and five days in the bush. He wandered until exhausted, sheltering under a tree and later being found in a terrible condition. He was carried 16 miles to a survey camp with probable amputation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wellington
N.Z
Holden
Taumaranui
Rich Find At Mount Royal Mine Shocks Orange Plains
On Friday N Fishpool, in town jubilant over a rich strike at Mount Royal mine on Orange Plains. After four years and deep sinking to 230 feet he hit a vast lode of black sulphides. Rough assays suggest copper mine could be worth considerable gold.
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Nyngan Onstaven
N. Mishpool
Mount Royal
Orange Plains
Fishpool
Irrigation and Land Drainage Book Review
The 300 page text by W Gibbons Cox reviews artesian and sub artesian water supplies and irrigation. It covers water amounts, pumping plants, reservoirs, machinery costs, and related topics with practical experience. The publishers Angus and Robertson issued the work for review.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mossra
Angue and Robertson
Sydney
W. Gibbons Cox
O.E
Messrs
Angus and Robertson
Dr Sheldon’s New Discovery for Coughs and Consumption
A wartime style advertisement urges readers not to risk weak lungs from colds and promotes Dr Sheldon’s New Discovery for Coughs Colts and Consumption. It claims the remedy stops the cough heals the lungs and prevents serious effects from a cold. Gilwow Bros sell the product.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sheldon
Gilwow Bros
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Aim High
Taylor's
Tomer
Taylor’s
A. W. Taylor & CO
People’s
Myaline
Chas. F. Stephens
Caswell Street
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