Methodist Home Mission Society in Victoria Report
The Rev F Cleverdon visited districts including Lexton Ambert and Talbot to promote the Methodist Home Missions of Victoria. The society runs 52 missions, 314 churches, 108 local preachers, and serves about 10,000 in worship weekly across 2900 Sabbath scholars. In year income reached £7976 with Talbot circuit donating £9125 2d. Readings and services described include open air work, hospital missions aiding 16,000 in-patients yearly, and collaboration with other churches at railway camps.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. Cleverdon
Lexton
Ambert
Talbot
Majorca
Methodist Home
Victoria
Geo. Schofield
G. 8
Lloyd
James Arnold
Methodist Home Mission
Methodist Church
Talbot Circuit
Cleverdon
Collingwood
Melbourne
Mason
Simon
F. Clverdon
W. J. Long
Ideal Woman's Remedy Tested by Bendigo Nurse Youlten
A Bendigo nurse with twenty years of experience endorses Dr Morse's Indian Root Pills for women undergoing the change of life and accouchement. She praises the medicine for promoting regularity and aiding digestion, noting it as unrivalled for its uses and recommending it to patients and colleagues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. J. Youlten
Bridge Street
Bendigo
Morse
Moran
LEXTON POLICE COURT SUMMARY
On the 13th inst Constable Hawkins withdrew a vaccination neglect case against Alfred Clarke after vaccination. On the 16th inst Herbert Hille was fined £2 with 14 days in Ballarat gaol for indecent language in a public place at Lexton. fine paid.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
D. Berriman
P.M
Herbert Hawkins
Waubra
Alfred E. Clarke
R. H. Grayling
Herbert Hille
Lexton
Ballarat
Cribbage Tournament Opens Talbot A N A Series
The Talbot Branch A N A hosts a cribbage event in the ALN A room with modest attendance. The ANA team won eight rubbers to eight against other societies, led by Eaves Jamieson and pairs with 3 and 4 rubbers. The next tournament is scheduled for Wednesday June 17.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Talbot
A.N.A
Aln.a
Eaves
Jamieson
Wonda
Gale
Davis
Deans
Henderson
The Season of Colds and Peps Breathing Tablets
Colds and chills prompt chemists to market Peps breathable tablets arranged to antiseptically coat nostrils throat and lungs. The ad claims Peps prevent germ invasion more effectively than lozenges or syrups and promotes brand names like Peps and Brown's Bronchial Troches with warnings about imitations and international availability.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brown
John I Brown and Sons
Boston
United States
Farringdon Road
London
England
Wireless Telegraphy Pioneers Reach Across the World
The piece explains how circular water and air disturbances reveal wave behavior, leading to the concept that electric waves travel through ether. It notes that wireless telegraphy uses electro magnetic waves, not air signals, and envisions global communication by tuning wave lengths from an early telegraph era.
The Photographer Pressures Frohman to Sit Still
A photographer urged Charles Frohman to pose for a weekly feature, but he refused citing ulterior motives. Frohman countered with a parable about a shoplifter wife and the judge’s sympathy, noting the danger of small starts leading to downfall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Frohman
Blunt Editorial Warning From Purcell Call Editor
The Purcell Call editor boasts that country editors face no mercy after death. He vows to lambaste any old reprobate who mocked him in life, promising no sentimentality or sniveling praise in the afterlife. He urges rivals to confront him before their final call.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Purcell
Okla
Police observe after cart collision in public area
A cart collided with a motor car as a crowd gathered while a policeman took many notes about the accident. A boy asked why the officer hatches the end of his pencil, and a mother suggested it makes the case look darker. Adverts urge Walls' Furniture and Clarke blood mixtures as cures and tonics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Giarke
Clarke
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Methodist Home Mission Society
Peps
AOW
THE
Wireless Works
Maryborough
Terang
Advt
Talbot and District
Co-Operative Butter & Cheese Factory Co
London Bank of Australia, Ltd
Talbot National Bank of Australasia, Ltd
Newstead
J. H. Jones
Camp Street Talbot
N.B
R. Simp
J. Public
Jas. Gray
America
Price
Phelan & Sons
Talbot & Maryborouch
J. J. M'Donald
Amherst
Street, Talbot
General Produce Dealer
M'Cormack
International Harvester Co
J. J. M‘donald
Ballarat Street
Falbot
Mandeville’s Coffee Palace
Nolan Street
RST
Cole
Railway Station
Princes’ Park
T. Cole
Proprietreas
P. Moloney
Crescent
Bank of Australasia
Will Palmer
Holyrood St
Bride
Wilks and Son, Jewellers
Ballarat, Ben
DIGO
F. M. Moore
Lander
Beecham
Taggart
High Street
General Printing Office
Talbot Leader
Price, Sd. R
Robert Allen
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