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Newspaper
Sydney Evening News
Location
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Dec 21, 1900
Page
7
Epps Cocoa is praised as a nourishing beverage enhancing Christmas cheer. The ad promotes its trusted place with housekeepers across New South Wales, noting its role in creating pleasant memories during the season.
An advertisement for Fresh Food and Ice Company notes the firm’s extensive refrigeration machinery, claiming the largest freezers in the southern hemisphere and nationwide delivery. It highlights supply of dairy products, butter, and frozen goods, with emphasis on pure ingredients and quality control. The piece lists Sydney headquarters at Harbor Street and city depots including Lodh Kingsivent and Royal Arcade.
A Melbourne and Sydney promotional note describes Griffiths Brothers Proprietary showing their tea cocoa coffee and baking powder warehouses and manufactories in Sydney and Melbourne. It notes expanding operations across Australian states and invites visitors to inspect the facilities and share a cup of tea.
Ellis Davis, a renowned jeweller in the Haymarket, showcases a 60 year experience and a superb stock at 615 George Street Sydney. The window displays bright, varied items imported from Paris and London, including rings, necklaces, bracelets, and brooches. The shop emphasizes quality for all budgets and promises educated inspections that often lead to sales.
The Melbourne Music Academy advertises a wide stock of instruments at 6 George Street Brickfield Hall including cornet fut harp sackbut pealery and duletimer. It invites visitors to inspect offerings from grand pianos to new keyboards and promotes catering to professional and amateur musicians and those aspiring to play.
One of Sydney’s best known firms, Perdriau and Company, rubber goods manufacturers at 270 George Street, claim exclusive production in the area. They stock everything rubber from tram and baby comfort items to garden hose and sprinklers, boasting long durability guarantees and a vast hose warehouse. Their range includes bicycle tyres, sailors’ and shipping needs, with special attention to celluloid materials such as collars and cuffs, kept in full stock with a guaranteed lasting quality.
Fragmentary text describes unbreakable items, a purse issue, and a firm displaying two Yemels bearing VZAK and 1900 on their facade for illumination during Commonwealth festivities. Mentions stock posts and free posting in appounts.
In The Strand shop windows W Christie displays an array of parachutes and umbrellas. The article lauds the variety and quality of stock, noting elegant handles and durable, weather resisting designs. Christie emphasizes precise craftsmanship and prompt service, inviting shoppers to visit for gifts this Wollive season.
S Pomforth has moved from Tricked Hill to The Strand, removing Oshing tackle cutlery electroplate-ware and wood carving tools. He offers Bailey Patent Spring Scinsora templates in the window and represents Australian Home Journal art Patterns. He presents the largest Sydney stock of wood carving tools and designs. Enhanced demand for cutlery and silverware noted.
W Johnston and Company advertise the New Home sewing machine with seventy awards, including top honors at Chicago World’s Columbian Exposition and a medal at Antwerp. They offer varied models with woodwork choices, can supply all parts, and provide repair by skilled mechanics, with agents in many country centers.
Mr Edgar of Oxford street Sydney and Paddington 412 offers a large stock of household requisites and handsome drawing room and bedroom suites at bargain prices to clear stock. He claims time payment is cheaper elsewhere and invites inspection of his rock stock with specialities in drawing room and bedroom suites and beds.
J Hayward merchant tailor of 47 George Street Sydney has run a busy shop for nearly twenty years, earning a first class reputation for quality. The article notes high demand, expanded staff, and a fresh stock of summer fabrics, tweed, cloth suiting, and ready shirts.
The McLean Brothers and Rigg's establishment on Cearge-street near Park-street is a busy center for country folk and tradesmen. The store displays illumination materials, crockery, electroplated ware, and a variety of sewing machines and sports gear. A wide range of gardening supplies, furniture, and fittings attracts housewives and mechanics seeking reliable goods and prompt service.
The article notes Fisher and Company at 337 George Street during a gusty period. It mentions Thaly Gamouseale, known by the trade mark Mighty Alok, from Africa, involving a period of unrest and a mix of industrial and social tensions affecting workers and trade.
The readable text describes a homeopathic business run by a person named Joan and mentions marble counters, fountains, juice products, and a large stock of patent medicines. It hints at monthly growth in activity and patronage, with references to a library of tonics and various stock items in a storefront setup. Details are fragmented and partially garbled.
A Sydney retailer promotes Wardman Company tea as a remedy for stress and thirst during holidays and long marches. The ad touts a new blend praised for its aroma and refreshing properties, highlighting care, integrity, and direct dealing as core virtues.
Fragmentary text mentions various odd phrases about cars, beverages, kitchenware, and a noted Cornalalie cutlery set. It seems to describe a shop or ad with prices, items like carving forks, and a house with a dew week reference, but the garbled wording makes precise facts impossible.
The NSW Municipal Association held a Wednesday meeting with officers including Altermen Wheeler and others debating council clerk appointments, adjournment procedures, and depotation arrangements. The council discussed property rates, water supply issues, and potential compensation while adjournment followed disputes over jurisdiction and authority.
A display of sberra plata croakery chia winsaware and Caney goods attracted large crowds on 10 at the George srsat showrooms. The auction featured electropolates crockery glassware and furniture costing over £6000 across the company’s showrooms. The firm lists branches in Melbourne Adelaide Ballarat Bendigo Geelong Parramatta Newcastle and Melbourne.
Advertisement style prose praises Haynes and Kearey at King-atrsel shop. It touts attractive hats for men and women, selects, colors, and seasonal styles designed to attract passersby. Also promotes umbrellas, travel hats, and merchanised goods for holiday shoppers.
This firm at 428 Orange Street showcases Novelties talking machines and prunable holiday items aimed at Sydney shoppers. Windows glitter with bright machines and festive streamers as they promise to delight many an evening during the season and claim to offer the best in society’s new gadgets.
Nock and Wiley advertise a well-known store offering a large range of goods from measuring wares to china glass and earthenware. The shop emphasizes courteous service and prominent displays with low prices on household items and foods.
Farmers express mixed satisfaction and worry over wheat price trends and rail access. They fear losing holdings if prices do not recover and urge rail links to move grain. the Railway Langue and Farmers not Seiere Association have urged action amid market pressures and uncertain futures.
An OCR damaged fragment lists numerous whisky and wine items with unrelated notes. Mentions UKIPR PAMOTS, Australian putt wine, pale brandy, scotch types, and various liqueurs, interlaced with garbled phrases and numbers.
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