Local Government and Community Officials in Beverley District
General information lists Legislative Council members Hans, C. A. Piesse, Wesley Maley and J. Haynes, plus Assembly member Mr. Smith and Land Agent EB Johnson. It names station timetables at Pingelly and Beverley, roads board members, health board details, racing and rifle clubs, agricultural society leaders, and resident clergy including Rev. A. D. Webb and Rev. Sackson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frovines
South Ease
Beverley
Legislative Council
Hans
C. A. Piesse
Wesley ,Maley
J. Haynes
Smith
Postal Hours and Mails Schedule for Town and District
Postal information lists postmaster W. A. Urquhiad and secretary H. Ford with office hours. It details daily mail closures to Albany Mourambine and other locations, including Bassende era Wynur lin road and Taylor's Road, with distribution by days. Notes indicate no country mail on Saturdays and mention local societies and library officials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. A. Urquhiad
Annnstant
T. Teed
Susan
Bor Perth
Albany
Mourambine
Bassendsett Road
Wynurlin Road
Pridaye
Graaplanda Road
Taylor's Road
Wickepen
Pingelly Directory Highlights Local Trades and Services
A fragmentary Pingelly directory lists numerous trades and businesses including general storekeepers bakers painters watchmakers wheelwrights and a hotel proprietor. Names such as J O'Reilly Lind Mattieke A Naylor and F Nisholeon appear alongside services from druggists chemists fishmongers and tailors reflecting a bustling regional commerce.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Emeleish
Ain Wonmonger
Lind
Tinamildy
Want Ad for Personal Handwriting Sample Request
An unusual request appears asking for handwriting samples and a Postal Note for 24 stamps to Professor L J Banks in Perth Western Australia. The note suggests personal traits and hints at a test or index related to self discovery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Professor Bauke
L. J. Banks
Vata
Post Office
Perth
West Australia
An Essay on Flies in a District Parody
A humorous piece traces a narrator's fourteen years among flies, praising their sociability, intelligence, and humor. It lampoons fly lore with invented authority by Pye and the narrator S X Trates, offering a mock prize of one million "gordarn Bies" for an exhibition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pye
S.X
Trates
Facts About Japan From Historical Sources
Japan spans about 1,959 square miles? No, 1H2,959. population around 44,280,006 with 24,828,025 men and 21,680,681 women. Rugged mountains limit cultivable land to roughly one sixth. Agriculture dominates, with textiles, paper, glass, lacquer, tea, porcelain, and bronze crafts. Coastal fishing is abundant and exports include cotton yarns, tea, copper, matches, coal, and marine products. Imports cover raw cotton, woolens, metals, machinery, sugar, kerosene, and rice from various regions. Several mines for copper, gold, silver exist.
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Tsaren
Maine
United States
India
Turope
Bong Kong
Austria
China
Germany
British India
News in Brief Features Regional Accidents and Gold Finds
A 20 year old man at the Proprietary mine Broken Hill suffered a severed arm and leg injuries after clothing caught in belt wheels. An elderly woman named Mrs Jane Allen, found wandering on North Terrace Adelaide, said to be from Western Australia with over £10, in cab, under care of St Joseph Sisters. Geraldton reports a drowning tragedy at Paint Moore beach where five children of lighthousekeeper Nelson perished. one body recovered, search ongoing, sharks seen near the area. Tarnagulla gold prospecting continues with notable finds from Young Mackenzie and Newton Co. nearby leasehold areas. multiple nuggets and a slug reported amid local excitement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
IL Hunt
Italy
Broken Hill
Jane Allen
North Terrace
Adelaide
Western Australia
Allen
Sisters OF St. Toseph
Geraldton
Nolgon
Paint Moore
Ageil Five
Marjory
Fileen
Nelson
Tarnagulla
Messrs
Young
Husband
Mackenzie
Newton and Co
VONES RECITATION AT THE SCHOOL MEMORIAL
A school stage memory recounts a student’s recitation mixing poems by Longfellow Tennyson and Burns. Amid misheard lines the pupil lurches through hushed verses linking The Village Blacksmith and The Village Smithy to nautical imagery and ending with a playful leave taking.
Bribery Attempt Tales From Jockey Fred Archer
The reminiscences recount a Doncaster St Leger tale where Archer found a £100 note and a promise of another £100 if his horse failed to win. He told Lord Falmouth and was ordered to keep riding. He won by a hair, but the rider later found £190 more and a letter thanking him for obeying the anonymous patron.
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Fred Archer
Archer
Doncaster
Rho
Lord Falmouth
Aniwaa
Trees Trained In Foliate November Planting Claim
M Rowait reports trees may be transplanted in full foliage in November or December with or without injury if moved at night, a method said to satisfy French horticulturists. Separate notes mention a stamp factory incident and Rochester hotel beer price protests. A dairy bull attack in Tenterfield ends fatally with Chas Pavel injured dead.
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M. Rowait
Ather Lands Putt Cages and Sunlight Theories
Fragmented notes cover heat exposure effects on skin nerves and flushing, sun’s germicidal power, and a range of curiosities from wireless plant ideas to fashion gowns and alligator skin demand. Reports mention Princess Quy de Lucigny-Pancinge in a chamelon gown and a Geraldton shooting incident, plus Victoria wheat yields from Federation variety trials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Quy de Lucigny-Pancinge
Carin
Pearance
Oak Timber Vein Found in South Russian River Beds
A Russian timber dealer reports discovery of valuable oak layers buried in a South Russian river. The deposit lies in river soil three to four feet deep across about 150 square tiles with at least twelve color shades. Logs range from forty to two hundred feet, with lengths and widths noted, and an estimated yield of over 150 logs averaging seventy feet each.
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Russia
Battons
Winater
Obituary and local harvest notes from Newcastle district
Mr Alfred Wilding of Marble Barble died of fever and pneumonia on the ninth inst. He was a brother of Mr Thos Wilding of Mokine. Wheat yields in Newcastle district run 16 to 25 bushels as prices stay low. Meat growers store grain hoping for a better market. The vessel Kamaru Maru, en route to Australia, picked up three Filipinos at sea in a junk 280 miles from Manila. the men were rescued.
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Longfellow
Tennyson
Tluke
Ho—le
Norval
Smjtey
Argyil
Aberbrothacle
Alfred Wilding
Marble Barble
Thos. Wilding
Mokine
Newcastle
Australia
Manilla
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General Information
Parliamentary
EB. Johnson
Narrogin
Pingelly
W. Clayden
Thorndaye
Sawrdays
Duc
Onlkes
Justices of the
T. Grace
G. B. Smith
G. Hi, Bostock
G. M. Sewell
E. Smith
Dr. Kearney
H. J. Brown
Teen Ee Roads Board
Ohsiman
H. Brown
J.5. Webb
Central Ward
G. Mi Sewell
GC. A. Naylor
J. Btone
T.J. Parker
H. Hyrardn
J. F. Shaddick
Ww. K. Congreve
Ness, Hughes
Fitzpatrick
Local Board of Health
H. Hughes
W. Williams
C. Perry
A. N. George
C. A. Naylor
D. Bink
Ian
PJ. Fitzpatrick
Board of Health
Rifle Club
T. Jackson
Secetary
W. A Urquhart
Small Bore Rifle Club
Patton, T
Humphria
T.grace
C. Reca
Holmesby
Church of
Ingland
A. D. Webb
Sackson
P. Lynch
Salvation Army
Willams
Postal Information
A.N.A
C. A. Borgelt
H. Ford
Ey Pingelly
N.G
John.watkert
J. Horn
Leader Business
Jatkeia
Bootinsker
A. Naylor
B. O. Monnee ‘& ‘Cy
Pinjeelly Jes Hote
Nowange Challenger i Pend Morgan
Mayon
Hootmaler
Pingelly Land Agen
Tavalor
Ereh
Ailgat
Embali Hbf
PERT
Sampron
PFIntel and publisher _ iS
Freemason Yoakes and Co
Seedeman and Ware Sarginas
Pingelly Dairy
Monger
Prop
Familia
Clednlnees Ab
Challenger and Morgan
Ladies’ & Gent's Tailors
P. Marlow
General Saddler & Bootmaker
Japan
Cass Bros
Sumner
H. E. Lambert
G. Wilson
Maylands
Pisgelly
Othoep
Tregurtha
Hughes
Jamon H. Groive
Mackay and Co
Groive
Orf
Vones
Chen
Aspen
T. R
Fred
Teles
Cuetone
Whele
Rochester
Vic
Chas Pavel
Nnimal
Weaaboro
Sittay
Rosenau
Nikola Tebla
Leste
Toa
Taney
Ani
America
France
Vysnee
Loubst
Alligetor Akin
Ata
Robert Darling
Cook's Pool
Darling
Victoria
Agricultural Department of Victoria
Yasi- ~Ona
Omar Kassam
Millars’ Karri & Jarrah Co
STOCK
R. Purser & Co
King St
E. Nicholson
R. McLeish
Hudson's
Ket
Holbrooks
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