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Newspaper
Shepparton News
Location
Shepparton, Victoria, Australia
Date
May 21, 1917
Page
1
Amid a grand record, reports indicate recruitment is declining while men fighting heroically urge for help. The piece calls for real men in Australia to answer the front and uphold national honor.
A farewell social at the hotel featured Mr. Gla and Mr. Saul among attendees. The chairman presented a solid leather crossing as a memento to the guest, whose stay at Beokio was warmly recalled. Applause followed with thanks for past services and best wishes for the future. The program included short remarks, refreshments, and a rendition of the National Anthem and Auld Lang Syne.
Officials and residents from Tasmanian and nearby districts gathered to discuss the planned opening from flushworth to Stanhope. Speakers urged government support, with school holidays and market arrangements noted, and local leaders pledging cooperation to advance the railway project.
Fragmented entry details a Victorian era wool catalogue with multiple consignments, appraisals, and sale notes. Names of companies, lots, bale counts, and prices appear alongside dates in May and references to New Zealand and Australian addresses and firms. The passage outlines bids, secured lots, and forthcoming appraisal dates for various wool lots and consignors.
Newmarket sales on Wednesday show a brisk yarding with 800 head of cattle and 110 cows sold. The day’s top price included a pon of pitwtullocks and a pon of Betta Ontewe. total for the week nears £10,980 across yarding of cattle sheep and other stock.
Readable fragments reflect Australian topics on gas infrastructure at Mortlake, NSW, and population shifts in 1916 NSW with emigration and births surpassing deaths. Mentions Federal Parliament opening plans, Empire Day advertising by businesses, and a recruiting drive. Notes a strange animal killing sheep in Timaple and a Woods’ Great Pile Cough remedy promotion with Colonel Holden in Melbourne.
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