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Newspaper
Shepparton News
Location
Shepparton, Victoria, Australia
Date
Jul 11, 1918
Page
6
A fragmented OCR passage shows a transport meeting where speakers debate policies and complaints from passengers. Spriggs is noted to attend daily to hear issues while others discuss handling duties and public concerns amid unclear dialogue and garbled names.
Wholesale meat rates listed include prime bodies 80/87 per 1200 pieces and medium cuts 48/49 per 100. Prime hinds 55s 68s per medium 58s. Sheep prices note prime night and various weights. Pork and veal items priced per pound with prime ends and large/small cuts. Pigs for shipping listed at 44s per ton and other inferior cuts at lower rates.
Melbourne based David Hyland & Sons Pry Ev Exporters and Sennltt's Freezing Works advertise for poultry buyers and exporters. The fragmented notice lists poultry requests and related services, indicating a market for poultry trade in Melbourne.
A worker describes using Robur No 1 Grade tea to lift spirits during a tough Steam Work stint. He claims hot Robur tea brightens him and keeps him going, praising its homely quality and value.
A garbled text fragment captures a rural scene with muttered phrases about games and soldiers, a nursery tale chorus, and a farmer for whom wartime questions about law and truth surface amid scattered dialogue. The piece echoes a dated journalistic style and focuses on misheard speech and social oddities.
The piece notes Japan exporting millions of pens as European demand shifts supply from Germany. It also threads in antiquarian references to lamps and Egyptian rites, interspersed with fragmented social conversations and comical mishearings from a clipped, varied newspaper page.
An eccentric jumble of product mentions and anecdotes includes Biturine acid and rustproof paint designed for inside tanks, plus various humorous and stray quotes. The piece also references a Melbourne contact, a benefits pitch for water safety, and miscellaneous consumer-promotional blurbs.
A garbled block of text contains scattered phrases and stray words about cough mixtures and manufacturing, with unclear attributions and many misspellings. The fragmentary material gives no cohesive event or names to anchor a news item.
A detailed description outlines a motor fire truck built for the Dodge Brothers plant in Detroit. The unit includes a full firefighting apparatus, two 150 gallon tanks, 200 foot hose, extinguishers, wrench set, axes, and a 36 foot extension ladder, designed for 24 hour readiness and rapid response to protect the factory and surrounding area.
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