Market Notes on Cattle and Lamb Prices
Fragmentary market lines describe oil and livestock trading with notes on cows and lambs. Several figures and terms appear, but the text is highly garbled and hard to parse for precise prices or entities.
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Newspaper
Riponshire Advocate
Location
Riponshire, Victoria, Australia
Date
Jan 17, 1914
Page
1
Fragmentary market lines describe oil and livestock trading with notes on cows and lambs. Several figures and terms appear, but the text is highly garbled and hard to parse for precise prices or entities.
The text lists monthly values for 1913 and yearly averages up to 1912 with irregular entries such as January 76 February 193 March 962 April 192 May 304 June 189 July ist Aug not September 317 October 112 November 268 December average per year 1900 20.02 1901 25.36 1903 95.57 1905 27.80 1907 27.39 1910 20.54 1912 25.08 and scattered digits like $88 1M 5008 25.00 1001 30.01.
Readers are urged to report weddings deaths accidents concerts and district happenings with clear names and addresses. Submit on one side of the paper to prove good faith and aid in filling quiet areas of district coverage.
The notice lists postal charges for letters, cards, printed matter, books, magazines, and commercial papers both in Australia and outside, with per ounce and per 2 oz or 4 oz rates. It notes the penny postage concession applies to letters to the United Kingdom and certain British dominions.
A proverb contrasts winter ice buyers and summer coal buyers, stressing buying when sellers need cash and selling when buyers seek goods. It urges readers to watch local advertising to spot and seize price-driven chances in household items livestock and perishables.
An advertisement extols Brown's Bronelbia lozenges for throat and chest complaints and cites an old nurse product Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup for teething children. It lists dosing guidance by age and urges use to ease diarrhea and wind colic, claiming wide merchant distribution and mentioning the Advocate Office in Beaufort for printing services.
The text lists close seasons for many species including birds like wild turkeys emu ibis magpie larks and pink pigeons and mammals such as opossums with protections year round. It also notes seasonal limits for quail wild ducks and other waterbirds and sets minimum weights for Murray Cod Murray Perch Stares Bream and English Trout. The Game Department expects two to three years before a break in close season.
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