18 Feb 1918
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Newspaper
Shepparton News
Location
Shepparton, Victoria, Australia
Date
Feb 18, 1918
Page
1
A garbled record lists numerous household and textile items, numbers, and expenditures from January marks. Mentions a prison fund purchase, a secretary note, and items like underpants, washers, socks, and magazines with unclear dates and origins.
A brief cricket note reports a date related win involving Emad and Crighel with mentions of Experly. The fragmentary text lacks clear teams and venues but centers on a match outcome and player names.
A letter from Batewriter laments drains in Corio Street and adjacent areas in Shepparton. The writer urges a formal system to cover fever beds and prevent waste from entering the Jolils and railway vicinity. He appeals for rapid concrete courses and price limits, blaming the existing system and seeking immediate remedy.
The Weather reports a week ending Tuesday with slight rainfall from a slack Antarctic low, otherwise fine weather. Persistent strong easterly winds affected Gippsland and Mildura, with temperatures around mild levels and minimal rainfall except Gippsland stations recording up to a quarter inch. East Gippsland noted 20 to 49 to 60 points.
Wool appraisements conducted in Melbourne by the Australian Mercantile Land & Finance Co. store South Kensington on Monday the 9th inst, catalogues listed twenty hundred bales with a good selection. Highest price paid for wool was aged for Arran. Doavong from Bronxtolhead Gh/Bush Feld from Teawoo, Riverina. Veadrn was appraised up to 234d.
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