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Newspaper
Prahran Chronicle
Location
Prahran, Victoria, Australia
Date
Dec 04, 1915
Page
4
The record documents a St Kilda Progress Association gathering with debate over shelter conditions and park plans. It notes motions about council attention, delays in consent, decisions on park improvements, and lists members and speakers including Judd Abe Russet and Kelly.
An advertisement claims a new remedy on 3k Stockdale road London offering a cure for eye and other ailments. It promises fast results with a bottle and a patch and directs requests to a Mr James Murray at the same address. The copy mentions abortions and other disjointed statements amid dubious medical claims.
The annual meeting of the Christian Brothers College Old Boys Association at St. Kilda College was presided by Mrs Keane with Rev View and other clergy in attendance. Officers elected included President Lookey and Secretary Wevauty, while a tribute to past pupils and a report on activities, boy enrolment, and post alumni support were presented.
The college lists over eighty names of alumni enlisted for service at the front. Mr Logue welcomes additions and asks for other names to be forwarded to the Hist. for inclusion in the roll.
Malvern and Prahran clash as top batsmen produce a high scoring day. Navini Kevast top scores for Prahran, while Malvern’s bowlers strike with key wickets. McMahon leads Malvern’s attack as the match ends with Prahran short of the total, Malvern proving tougher in the late sessions.
An advertisement touts pure drugs and low prices from a local pharmacy. It promotes convenience and high quality standards, presenting Wits and Co. as the sole source for pharmaceutical supplies in the area.
A garbled wartime prose fragment recalls stars over a landscape with sails, columns, and a distant railway. The narrator, shifting between memory and myth, contemplates heroic figures, heavenly constellations, and a fractured scene of conflict, longing, and uncertain safety.
A fragment from a dinner recounts a bishop's four year tenure and a witty exchange about church life. A lady teases the canon reading, a big gun at the pulpit, and the organist's struggle as the bishop demands order, highlighting tensions between ceremony and action in church.
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