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Newspaper
Robertson Mail
Location
Robertson, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Jun 28, 1929
Page
4
Proceeds will be divided between the Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children and the Bortima District Hospital. Box Plan at Frewham and at Cafe Noisette Bowral.
Mr and Mrs Stokes and family express gratitude to Dr Harbison Dr Herringtan Sr Watson the Matron and Nursing Staff of the BLD Hospital for their untiring attention to their son and brother during illness. Special thanks to Bowral Intermediate High School staff and friends for sympathy and floral tributes.
Owing to late delivery of The Mail the paper enforces strict ad deadlines. Changes must be received by 10 a.m. Saturday or noon Wednesday to appear in the next issue. New ads due by 2 p.m. Mondays with a possible Saturday lapse. Advertising contracts may be terminated only at quarter ends.
The community notes a profit of £115 at the Wollongong Eisteddfod and lists upcoming local events in Bowral Mittagong and Berrima. Plans include a Diggers Ball, a tennis social, and a Mile of Pennies dance to benefit the District Hospital. Frosts hit Talloweena with record lows. Bowral Hospital Auxiliary prepares for its annual meeting. A proposed road to Wormbeyan Caves would shorten Upper Burragorang travel.
A Bowral based reader from the pre war Russian bourgeoisie recounts chilling scenes from Petrograd during a sudden uprising. Sharpshooters were placed in vantage points including a church tower, and a hail of leaden fire struck the crowd, triggering carnage before the mob captured the shooters. The account offers a vivid, if partial, glimpse into the mysterious ending to public imagination of the event.
The piece notes an addressing machine for the newspapers, and then recounts an alleged authentic tale about the end of the czarist royal family. It claims bodies were incinerated after Ekaterinburg and links the tragedy to Rasputin. The call is for readers to verify the address on a copy of The Mail.
A letter clarifies the apology to Jack Grimson of Bowral over a referee dispute after a game and notes future care with Christian names. It also reports on local notes about coal near Goulburn, a mining site, and a shaft found under a lorry mishap, plus a wall repair and land partnership linked to a mine development.
The Talloweena barites mine in the Wombeyan district has new work. Ten tons of ore were carted to the Talloweena wool shed last week and the first load was sent by lorry to Mittagong whence it will be trucked to Wallenbene. A Wallenbene plant grinds barites for use in latex, rubber, and especially white paint.
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