Commercial Union Fire Insurance Rates Declared
The Commercial Union announces its current lowest rates for fire insurance across all classes, highlighting competitive terms and acceptance criteria for properties and risks.
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Newspaper
Talbot Leader
Location
Talbot, Victoria, Australia
Date
Jun 10, 1916
Page
1
The Commercial Union announces its current lowest rates for fire insurance across all classes, highlighting competitive terms and acceptance criteria for properties and risks.
A historical advertisement touts Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup for teething and diarrhea in infants. It prescribes dosing by age from birth to after six months, with a half teaspoonful for young infants and up to a teaspoonful several times daily, claiming soothing effects and reliability.
Local post office will despatch and receive mails on certain days starting May 1916. Patchy text continues with an advertisement for Clarke's Blood Purifier claiming cures for scrofula scurvy skin diseases and other afflictions, touting worldwide fame and warnings about imitations. Names of towns and delivery days appear in fragmented form.
The article details new penny postage rules and postal rates across the Commonwealth including Expeditionary Forces letters, various weight bands, cards, printed matter, and overseas parcels. It lists regional rates for Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, and British colonies with specific per-ounce and per-item charges and notes warnings about imitations of Clarke's Blood Mixture.
A dense record lists annual close seasons for numerous species across Australian regions. It covers mammals birds and reptiles such as emus echidnas koalas kangaroos quail ducks kingfishers skylarks parrots and platypus, with seasonal dates in Victoria including Gippsland and Murray regions. It notes minimum lengths and weights for fish and Aboriginal wildlife protections in the Mount Franklin, Glenlyon, and Port Phillip Bay areas.
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