Lost on North Parade Friday Morning Reward Offered
A lost item noted on North Parade Friday morning with a reward offered. Apply through the contact given in the notice.
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Newspaper
Port Adelaide News
Location
Port Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Date
Jan 09, 1920
Page
1
Bookmakers Fined After Port Adelaide Cup Day Betting
Adelaide Po H Sinclair M and associates were fined five pounds plus costs for unlawful betting on December 26 at Port Adelaide Race Club Cup Day. Joseph Amos Harold Leslie Cody Henry Sghoor Hawker and Thomas Ock admitted unlawfully betting while employed as laborers on the racecourse. Sub Inspector Fraser noted Amos bet with women in the grandstand despite a totalisator being in operation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Adelaide
H. Sinclair
Port Court
Port Adelaide
Joseph Amos
Puente
Harold Leslie Cody
Parkside
Henry Sg Hoor Hawker
Thomas Ock
Queenstown
Fraser
Amos
Port Adelaide Man Pleads Guilty to Indecent Behavior
Thomas Harding, a ship's crew member, pleaded guilty before Mr. J. H. Sinclair in Port Adelaide Police Court to indecent behavior in Quebec Street Port Adelaide. He was fined £1 with 15 costs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. H. Sinclair
Port Adelaide
Thomas Harding
Quebec Street
Noble and Devoted Band Honored by Semaphore Society
An illuminated address was presented to the Semaphore Cheer-up Society by representatives of the naval and military guards and reserve band at their Outer Harbor rooms. Lieut.Col. H. G. Viney and Lieut. Turner presided, lauding the society's five years of wartime support for all guards and dependents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Semaphore
Outer Harbor
Naval and Military Guard
H. G. Viney
C.M.G
C.B.E
Lieut. Turner
Empire
Promfort
Naval Guards
Defence Department
Fourth Military District
L. S. Bracegirdle
Ds.c
J. M. Antill
Cmg
4Th Military District
E. A. Sanders
Port Adelaide licensing case over unlicensed liquor sale
Elsie Coleman shopkeeper faced Licensing Act charges in Port Adelaide for supplying beer and other liquor at her St Vincent Street premises on December 23. Evidence showed beer on the table and bottles stored on site. Prosecution and defense offered conflicting testimonies. A fine of 25 pounds with costs or two months imprisonment was proposed, with verdict to be delivered after further consideration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. H. Sinclair
Port Adelaide
Elsie Coleman
Fraser
Tog St. Vincent Street
W. Gill
Harris
Waverley
Shaw
Defendant
Coleman
Banks
Penfold
Cooper's Beer
Walter 5. Harris
E. P. Shaw
Welland
Britannia Hotel
Gill
S.M
Mr. Gill
SMLT
Collision Between Trolly and Motor Cycle in Semaphore
In Port Adelaide Local Court Cedric James Thompson sued Herbert Tilley for damages after a collision on November 19 1919 on the Esplanade Semaphore. Evidence showed Thompson riding a motor cycle collided with a trolley and horses tied to a ramp near the railway dead end. The court bench disagreed and a renewed suit with costs was ordered.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Port Adelaide
J. H. Sinclair
J. L. Lewis
S. J. Werran
Cedric James Thompson
Turton Street
Semaphore
Herbert Frederick Tilley
Hilton Street
Birkenhead
Esplanade
L. D. Waterhouse
W. V. Ray
Harbors Board
John Wark
Mavis Groth
Hart Street
Phare
Ray
Carrier
Henley
Thompson
Wondergraph
Mr. Thompson
James Gibb
S.M
Fire Averted At Federated Storeten and Packers Union
Smoke issued from a window at 103 St Vincent Street Port Adelaide. Harold Mackay climbed to the room and tossed a bucket of burning papers from the window. He was fined £10 with £1 costs for a first offence involving liquor at unlicensed premises. another man, Banks, was fined £5 with £1 costs for involvement in a separate case.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Federated Storeten and Packers’ Union
St. Vincent Street
Port Adelaide
Harold Mackay
Princes Street
Alberton
S.M
Fraser
Banks
S.s. Canastoto
Port Pirie
Coroner Declines Inquiry Into Rosewater Death
The City Coroner Dr Ramsay Smith ruled no further inquiry is needed into the death of Mrs Elizabeth Steven of Margaret Terrace Rosewater who died Thursday from an overdose of morphia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ramsay Smith
Elizabeth Steven
Margaret Terrace
Rosewater
Man Injured After Fall From Tramcar at Yatala Stop
Mr. Henry Carey of Peel Street Yatala fell from a tramcar at the Peel Street tramway stopping place on Friday evening. Dr Dunstone transported the semi conscious man to Port Adelaide Hospital where he was treated for a fractured skull and a scalp wound.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Carey
Peel Street
Yatala
Dunstone
Port Adelaide
A Watery Bed at McLaren Wharf Shock
John Jackson, a returned soldier, tried to lie down on McLaren Wharf Port Adelaide on Friday evening and fell into the river. He was removed to Port Adelaide Hospital for examination and found to be little worse for his immersion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Jackson
McLaren Wharf
Port Adelaide
Port Adelaide Hospital
Death by firearm at Yatala laborer residence
At about six pm on Friday Charles Thomas Lowrie a 48 year old laborer of Reynold Street Yatala was found dead from a bullet wound in the right temple. Police and Dr P Cherry attended. The wife had earlier gone to Port Adelaide to settle accounts and returned to find him in the yard beneath bamboos. Coroner Dr Ramsay Smith was notified and ordered no inquest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
P. Cherry
Port Adelaide
Charles Thomas Lowrie
Reynold Street
Yatala
H. Martin
Alfred Donald
Ramsay Smith
Portland tram mishap leaves man with facial abrasions
On Saturday afternoon John Young of Torrens Road Yatala fell from an electric tram on Port Road while trying to catch his hat blown from his head. He was rushed to Port Adelaide Casualty Hospital for facial abrasions and a severe cut to his right hand.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Port Road
Portland
John Young
Torrens Road
Yatala
Port Adelaide
Easy Victim and the Chicken Meal Cheat
A poultry keeper recalls being promised a free bag of chicken meal by a constable named Sam and a local shopkeeper Blank. The meal turns out to be sawdust, and the keeper’s chicks suffer. later, he learns others were similarly deceived.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Blank
Sam
Cheltenham
Worthy
Digger recalls Messines rescue and flood chaos
A digger recalls a tall elephant joke while describing a battle moment at Messines where a lieutenant fired at a German a stray shot, a youngster climbed to recover a device, and then a flood swept through the scene with a soldier recounting the chaos.
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Fritz
Messines
U.S
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