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Newspaper
Sydney Evening News
Location
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Dec 19, 1908
Page
4
The notice outlines a multi floor sale listing items for first floor second floor and third floor with departments including drapery carpets leatherware furniture refreshments toys electroplate cutlery china glassware and more. It also provides a Christmas week programme with open hours from December 23 to January 2 1909 and notes several closures.
Grace Bros showcases high class cutlery with English cost price samples from G H Whittaker and Co. and offers savings on freight and duties. A grand display includes Awata, Tokonshe, Cloisonne and Satsuma ware from Japan, described as the choicest imported goods for Christmas gifts.
In Old Times December 20 1868 the letter to the "Timon" notes a proposed public meeting at St Paul’s Hotel on October 1. It reports a cricket match in the Domain with 23 players, names principal bearers, and discusses ship and trade notes, a Sunday market update, and local government commentary.
The account surveys Christmas beliefs and practices across Europe and England, detailing carols, feasts, and superstitions. It notes wolves, spirits, and omens in rural villages, and contrasts festive rites with religious observances from Christmas Eve to Epiphany.
In Paris at Motel Terminus Mme Girari the wife of engineer M Girard shot her husband four times as he slept after a quarrel over his departure for South America. She then shot herself in the breast and later died. Girard was taken to a police infirmary, fate uncertain.
A garbled medical letter fragment references suffering from back pain, kidney issues, shoulder strain, and various ailments. It mentions attempts at cures, including Warner’s Bale Cry, and lists numerous names and implements, suggesting a long search for relief amid uncertain remedies. The text reads as a tangled, digitized recollection of chronic illness and improvised care.
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