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Newspaper
Talbot Leader
Location
Talbot, Victoria, Australia
Date
Jan 15, 1916
Page
4
The notice seeks fit men aged 18 to 45 for enlistment with medical exams at local halls and railway transport for final checks. It lists pay scales prior to embarkation and on active service, including lieutenant, sergeant, corporal, and private, plus a desparation allowance for married men and pensions for widows or total incapacity with dependent child supplements.
An appeal urges subscriptions to the second Commonwealth war loan with a £10,000,000 target and a 4½ percent nominal rate, tax free. the closure date is 31 January. It emphasizes duty to defend liberty, Australia’s contribution, and that any amount over the target will be accepted to aid the war effort.
A Brisbane mother describes rapid improvement in her 12 year old daughter’s itchy sores after using Zam-Buk for about a week. She reports swelling and pain eased, sores cleared, and the skin returned to health, with the family keeping Zam-Buk in stock. The product is advertised for various skin ailments and sold for 6d or 3s 6d.
Lex ton Shire Council meets with Cre Laidlaw presiding as directors discuss re opening Lex ton Court of Petty Sessions, wheat price support, and government measures. Reports cover finances, road works, lamp installations, and licenses while inspectors report on sanitation, weeds, and thistles.
An advertisement promotes Clarke's Blood Mixture as a safe permanent cure for pimples scrofula bad legs scurvy skin and blood diseases. It claims the product cleanses blood of impurities and has led to thousands of cures, priced 2s 9d per bottle with warnings against imitators and substitutes.
A collage of remarks on bachelors and spinsters across the United States, with notes on marriage prospects in Western Maine and California. The excerpt shifts to kitchen guidance on fat usage in cooking and then to reflections on kindness, manners, and a domestic ideal. A brief fictional exchange ends with Cleverton and Dashaway debating love and marriage.
An Australian advertisement claims Comstock's Dead Shot Worm Pellets cured a two year old boy after one dose, with a nine inch worm passed. It promotes vegetable ingredients and offers post paid delivery via The W. B. Comstock Co. Ltd. Also ads Winslow's soothing syrup for teething pain and Clarke's Blood Mixture for skin and blood conditions.
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