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Newspaper
Shepparton News
Location
Shepparton, Victoria, Australia
Date
Jun 20, 1918
Page
4
National Trustees Co at 43 Queen Street Melbourne invites deposits and loans with low interest and no commission. Hon Walter Madden, Managing Director, advertises money, trust funds, and country lands. Established 1880.
A letter from Sister H Puluier Lo Tierwigllier describes Australian nurses tending wounded soldiers behind the front. She notes long travel by ambulance, crowded tents, scarce beds, and refugees, with nurses bandaging feet, feeding patients, and comforting the dying. The piece highlights Aussie workers, allied effort, and wartime hardship on the home front.
An OCR fragment promotes magnesia as a neutralizer of stomach acidity, claiming it prevents fermentation, relieves indigestion, and calms inflamed stomachs after meals. It cites testimonials from Anderson of Gouray, Queensland, claiming rapid relief after trying other remedies.
Fragmented OCR text describes dairy shipments to Australia and a British government stance on a system of support. Mentions Dairy component and contract terms with references to vessels and payments. Context suggests trade and policy debates of the period, with scattered names and phrases.
The Slepparton branch of the RSA met in the lab room Wendl street on a Saturday evening. The discussion focused on memorial tablets and keeping military traditions alive while debating the possible sale of the soldiers hall and the future role of the army reserve in local life.
An accident last Tuesday near Newstead involved Mr H Judson taking his two sons and two daughters to school when a horse bolted into a swollen creek. One son died, another was saved by H W McDonald who lunged to grab a strap. The horse drowned in the stream.
A fragmented OCR item mentions brides with tea and poems, with unclear names or locations. The readable fragments describe a poetic or ceremonial scene and reference a new Zenhuul setting uncertain in detail.
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