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Newspaper
Talbot Leader
Location
Talbot, Victoria, Australia
Date
Jan 22, 1916
Page
4
A dog fancier seeks a stolen hound in a tale set near St John s Wood. Landseer demands the creature within forty eight hours as dialogue reveals the thief sold the dog to a tramp in Portland Place for a handsome sum, humor masking crime.
A Sydney woman recounts a long battle with a ankle infection after an insect bite. Despite specialist treatment and home remedies, it persisted for five years until Zam-Buk dressing soothed inflammation, reduced the ulcer, and healed the wound. Zam-Buk is sold in stores at 6d and 3s 6d per pot.
The ad touts Dr Morse's Indian Root Pills as more than purgatives claiming to cleanse blood liver stomach and kidneys. It cites numerous testimonials from Australia and urges sufferers of skin and blood diseases to seek trials, promising health restoration through the pills.
Global beef demand faces uneven supply as cattle per thousand people declines in the United Kingdom and Austria-Hungary while Germany and France see varying gains. The United States shows rising dairy cattle share, France and New Zealand also lift dairy proportions, and Argentina remains a key supplier to England. Pack- ers in the United States and South America discuss moving meat consignments based on price.
A clipped regional prompt advises residents to monitor local shops like Your Eye on Furniture and Walla' Pianos in Maryborough and Terang, for guidance on engagement rings and related purchases.
A South Russian town prison chapel witnessed a rare marriage of two engaged students among 36 arrested at a Socialistic meeting. Sentenced to life transportation, they wed secretly with only the ceremony allowed, then were separated to their quarters, likely never to meet again.
An essay lampoons weather talk as art and fate as a cure in the stage. It casts marriage as a ruined fortress haunted by divorce and alimony while noting success as a mystery to enemies and a disappointment to friends. Audiences are described as money minded crowds.
A city man arrives home in a panic to find his wife has shifted clocks forward an hour. He frets over his clothes and delays their dinner as he orders outfits and a tie. The wife calmly reveals the hour change and reassures him.
The text extols walking as the natural mode of progression, linking health and independence as core blessings of existence and urging cultivation of a walking habit. It frames walking as essential to well being and personal freedom.
A fragmentary notice by Nurse Evans asserts twenty years of nursing in Tasmania and Victoria, claiming wide experience and rapid recovery of patients with medicines from Clements Tome, signed as a testimonial of reliability and health restoration.
A dental teething remedy advertises Winslow's Soothing Syrup as safe and effective for teething pain. It claims to promote natural sleep, soothe gums, relieve wind and diarrhea, and ease dysentery, with sales said to be widespread through merchants.
A compiled list of men from Talbot Borough and the Shires of Talbot Albion and Sexton who have enlisted or been brought up in the named places. It includes many already at the front and notes medically unfit or discharged individuals, with several WIA or KIA designations and updates on their origins.
Hearne presents a medicine claimed to heal bronchitis cough croup asthma hoarseness and chest pain with fast relief and voice strengthening. It asserts prevention of chronic cough and consumption when used early and accessible at chemists and medicine vendors.
A shopper friendly display offers rings bangles necklets pendants and bracelets with prices from 5s 6d to £4 10s jewelry items hair brushes jewel cases and manicure sets. Military wristlet watches wallet and pocket books razors sleeve links stud boxes and fountain pens featured with price ranges and an electroplate collection ideal for presentations. Special discounts for friendly societies and organisations are advertised.
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