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Newspaper
Sydney Evening News
Location
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Sep 25, 1908
Page
4
An advertisement extols FROOTCIDS as a superior aperient aiding digestion and removing toxins from blood and tissues. It asserts rapid benefits in liver, digestion, and headache relief, warns against daily-dose habits, and promotes sale through chemists, with WG Hearne listed as proprietor and distributor.
The 1907 annual health report notes 96 formal health reports and 435 on noxious trades, with 126 inspected insanitary dwellings. It details Sewage depots moved near North Botany, pollution concerns at Georges River, and a butcher shop in Erskineville with filthy premises and decomposed meat leading to a police-sealed closure.
In Shellharbor Police Court before Colese Chisholm two young men James Jordan and Alexander M'Donald were fined £1 and costs for riotous behaviour at the Steam Packet Hotel on October. They argued over Buron and Squires fighting qualities and resolved their dispute by a practical demonstration.
Public holidays listed by date and region across Queanbeyan Broken Hill and surrounding districts. Also notes on coal loading steamer Walers for West Coast South America, a Melbourne bookseller fined for indecent postcards, naval commands and resignations, a Lismore to Nimbin railway proposal, a tram accident, and a death at Ultimo works.
Sydney report notes NSW public accounts show a 665000 pound surplus, criticized as swollen and stage managed. European items cover Irish American athletes denouncing British play, Germany on Morocco, and Lord Brassey urging Australian cruiser loans. News touches Japan US alliance, New York court cases, and colonial scientific appointments.
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