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Newspaper
Sydney Evening News
Location
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Jun 04, 1909
Page
6
The readable portion shows a distorted list of words and phrases with no coherent event or entities. It mentions numbers and scattered names but lacks a clear subject, date, place, or action to summarize into a proper news item.
A fragmented OCR of a Sydney produce sale and auction catalog lists traders, buyers, and produce items. It references firms such as WALKER, GIINN, and FISH PBNORSEES and notes auctions conducted by SUTTOR and CO with multiple agents, consignors, and produce types including wheat, malts, and grains. The text captures names, places, and roles but is garbled. core items include auctioneers, buyers, and produce categories rather than a clean sale summary.
A parade of the Boy Scouts will gather at Newtown Bridge at 7 30 this evening led by the Bugle Band under Scout Master Gray. Scouts from patrols 14, 18, and 19 in Parramatta districts invited to join. Staffs and haversacks to be carried. The Mayoress presents a Union Jak to District 14. additional notes on local tobacconist and a peppermint remedy end the fragment.
A strong gas smell preceded a blast at Angus and Coote on George Street Eyder Thursday night. A store upstairs suffered a loud explosion as a safe door blew open and ceiling fell, but no injuries or patients were present in lower rooms. Minor damage was caused, with windows and a storeroom affected.
The Acting City Coroner at George Street North examined the death of William Lope turf commission agent who died after a lodging house incident in Goulburn Street Sydney Hosgitas on May 26. Annie Sullivan faced a charge of causing death and witnesses described fights in Barton Street and a stabbing-like head injury leading to Lope’s death.
Proceedings began at 10 o clock with a town hall procession led by police. A band and cadets marched through municipal streets as MPs and local dignitaries attended. Donations and costs for a hospital and charitable institute were announced, with totals and donors named.
A fragmented weather section lists a showery eve and day forecast for the New South Wales coast with southeasterly winds. It includes a long list of towns and rainfall notes, plus regular regional reports from Tamworth Queanbeyan Sunny Corner and others, noting rain, dull conditions, and improving winter prospects with high rainfall points and tank replenishment.
A visitor from Queensland enters New South Wales and is charged under the Crimes Act. The proceedings involve Stanley Repwntswith and H Smith, who pleaded guilty to offences prior to leaving Queensland. Smith faces a warning and return to NSW, with detention and security terms discussed. The case includes a remand to Parramatta and questions about his refusal to pay for accommodation.
A garbled 19th century report references a marine court inquiry and trials related to the Kiama grounding. It mentions Lord Chelmaront and the opening of a ceremony for the Commercial Travelers’ Association with a jewelled key by Kerr, a noted jeweller, in London. The text is fragmentary and contains many misreads and inserted phrases.
A fragmentary note describes a court case where a woman defended herself by claiming intoxication. The magistrate pressed the point that the defendant could not recall events from the drunk state while asserting she remembered some details. The judge imposed the standard sentence, and the woman argued she was not as guilty as implied.
An inquest into Maud Biers’s death at Guildford noted the poisoning by carbolic acid contained in a prescription drug. The jury found the bottle contents involved and recommended the contents of two bottles be examined, with the inquest adjourned for three weeks to review the substances and ensure safe handling.
Sydney Moos, a young man who pleaded guilty to theft of nine boxes and property belonging to Mark Berg at Sydney, was sentenced to nine months in prison with hard labor. The judge warned that if he appeared before the court again, he could face a harsher penalty, and noted the offender’s opportunity to reform. Dr Sheldon's new discovery listed as a throat trouble update.
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