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Newspaper
Queanbeyan Observer
Location
Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Dec 06, 1912
Page
2
Bright and attractive bargains are offered during December with planned price reductions. The store cites enormous stocks and aims to eclipse previous efforts by promoting splendid values and exceptionally good goods for the season to attract customers.
In a catalog of gifts for men, shoppers find shaving sets, silver watch items, fountain pens, and new accessories like ties and collar bones. Featured brands include Silverback and Military Hair Brushes, with several bronze collar boxes and safety items.
A fragmented gifts list items for women including silver jewelry floral arrangements hairpins scissors and boxes a long inventory of toiletry and fashion accessories featuring pins combs gloves and decorative pieces with partial brand and price hints.
A vivid ad outlines a wide grocery department with wines, fruits, nuts, preserves, canned goods, and jams. It proclaims cleanliness and quality, highlighting fruit jars, jellies, custards, tinned meats and fish, pickles, sauces, nuts, spices, and Foster Clark’s goods, aiming to attract shoppers with variety and assurance.
A local court case released a warning to sheep transporters. Tultlun of Grevatull was charged with moving sheep without proper permits, facing fines and travel restrictions. The ruling emphasizes the need for legal paperwork and proper authorization in livestock travel.
Reading mixes policy debate on monopolies and government action with health remedies and unrelated wartime updates. It references a labor dispute in Brisbane, an Australian boy jailed for theft, pensions, and security measures, plus scattered reports on Bulgaria Turkey Algeria and child welfare.
Members of the local rifle club attended a charity ball at the Avaree range, raising funds for a needsful comrade. Mr Grady presided, with Mr Urady and Mr Le Strange praising the arrangement and patronage. Excellent music and a wood supper completed a splendid evening.
The Sydney wool sale overview notes new England and Southern district demand with varied prices. Buyers included Henry Juhowen Acmulaie and Allan Ball Singleton among many names as demand held steady amid a week of mixed lot descriptions and assorted bale counts.
A fragmentary report discusses the Shires and a wartime air plan. It mentions responsibility for bombings, expectations for the coming period, and uncertainties about the political and military outcome. The text shows confusion about who planned actions and what consequences may follow.
Fragmentary OCR notes mention greasy wool prices and sale lines at Clerkneds' station and Acreadube, with references to Wool sales in Wischcombe and Caraan. The text lists terms like per bale and mentions drugs and places in a historical trade outline without clear story context.
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