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Newspaper
Sydney Evening News
Location
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Jul 11, 1908
Page
7
The advertisement markets wire netting with emphatic claims of best values and low prices. It mentions galvanised material, various meshes, and a rollable offering from Belfast Grand, priced competitively, with emphasis on cost efficiency for all types of work.
In a tense nocturnal sequence, Andrew Ferkoe recalls a deadly confrontation with Blowfield. The narrator suspects Capper as the killer, but a hooded laborer watchers shift the trail to George Rabbit as the pursuit resumes. Debora remains missing, and threats loom as evidence unsettles the case.
A finding of accidental death was recorded at an inquest into the death of painter Robert Andrews sixty four, recently of Otty road, Darlington. He died at Sydney Hospital after falling from a building at Bench road, Rushcutters Bay, while painting guttering. He was seated on a balcony rail when he overbalanced and fell about forty feet, sustaining a base skull fracture and both thighs broken. He was carried to hospital by Civil Ambulance and died shortly after admission.
A humorous verse describes a miser who risks grave danger to save a penny. He overprices a trivial sum to buy Woods Cure for a friend, then fumbles through a doctor’s bill and still tries to buy Woods Poppermint Cure to finish his undoing.
A Paris Tempo article cites warned decline of British naval supremacy and predicts an inevitable Britain Germany war. It notes America’s round-the-world voyage tests naval rank, while Britain refuses to host the fleet, deeming the journey too long, signaling tensions.
An old farmer on his deathbed leaves his three sons a share of his horses: oldest one half, middle one third, youngest one ninth. They cannot divide the herd until a shearer suggests buying one horse for £10, enabling exact shares with a leftover payment to the shearer. They end up with ten pounds richer after settling.
At Newtown Police Court, Bessy C. Lange of Unnwin’s Marrickville faced penalties for lacking posted copies of the Factories and Shops Act. Walter Taylor and Hewlars were fined for failing to report an accident within 48 hours. Catherine Bennell was fined for permitting her underage daughter Ettie Respell to work at RB Richardson’s factory.
Leonard Rowe alias Zi kitchenmaid was charged at the Water Police Court with stealing a watch, chain, fob seal, and pendant valued at £9 0s, plus £4 from Pauline Tessert. Constable Best testified to missing items while Rowe was at Petty's Hotel. Rowe admitted taking items and pawned the watch, and was committed for trial on both counts.
An old newspaper item notes Dr Sheldon’s new discovery claimed to ease winter coughs and colds. The brief mention lists price figures 1/6 and 3/2 as costs for the remedy or treatment.
The article outlines journey durations from London to Vancouver in nine days, to Auckland in sixteen more, then to Sriloey in three, totaling twenty-five days to New Zealand and twenty-eight to Australia. It notes faster routes via the Eastern line reach Srnney in thirty to thirty-one days and New Zealand in thirty-four to thirty-seven days, referencing Lori Strathcona's paper in Town and Country Journal on using later entrants as auxiliary crews in the Pacific.
Discontent grows in Manly as council employers pay men by task. At the latest meeting Alderman Mus Bell moved to rescind past increases for day laborers, arguing against reverting to old pay. The motion was postponed pending an overseer’s report.
A Morong district report notes many ewes die from starvation due to the absence of green food. The Town and Country Journal offers striking photography including Franco British Exhibition court views and a Magnificent double-page spread from Mowman. Harrington and Company advertise prints in bichromates and the Rawlins Method, by Monzieur le Conte de Catalano. The exhibition pieces will be on display for a few days. The piece ends with a fallback on Chamberlain's Cough Remedy as a health booster.
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