This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 3 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Sunshine Advocate
Location
Sunshine, Victoria, Australia
Date
Jan 18, 1935
Page
7
Estimates given for all classes of fer. All work guaranteed. Charges moderate. See me for your Repair at Xmas. 30 Ridley Street Sunshine.
A collage of 1925 items includes youths misusing insulators on the Yallourn line for target practice, a Sunshine Harvester Works fire scare on New Year’s Day, and plans for a baby health centre. Local cricket, rail safety concerns, and a daily Deer Park Sunshine motor service are noted, with factory expansions and wheat prices at Williamstown. The miscellany also features jokes, geograph y quiz lines, and a courtroom quip from Justice Bowen about a burglary verdict.
Frederick Jones, 40, laborer, charged with stealing a sac coat valued at 27 from Forge's Pty Ltd. evidence showed the coat missing from a tailor's dummy in Nicholson Street. Floor walker Lance Wedlick later spotted Jones in Barkly Street wearing an overcoat. Jones admitted theft after being confronted. He cited drinking and memory loss. Two prior convictions were admitted. he was sentenced to a month in jail.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.