Empire Day celebrations span schools and towns with concerts
Empire Day events across Dunach Daisy Hill Sexton and related schools featured flag salutes, speeches by Rev A J Pearce and C Mason, patriotic songs, and recitations. Pupils attended races and a social in the Town Hall with a coffee supper and a dance, prizes, and a picnic. Local volunteers and the Talbot Shire president supported activities.
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Amherst
A. J. Pearce
C. Mason
Thompson
A. J. Long
Dunach
Howard
Senger
Talbot Shire
Daisy Hill
Miss Davies
Messra G. Rich
Jas. Jordan
R. Allen
Mining Intelligence Update From Masonca Alluvial
Manager E Bagley reports shaft deepened and new plunger pumps installed with capacity 40 000 gallons per hour while pow delivers 18 000 gallons. Plat chamber cut out reef drives started and shaft skidded for cage and trucks puddler erected and lap puddling engine placed on bed logs ready for wash next week.
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E. Bagley
Why Acid Stomachs Are Dangerous and How to Aid Relief
A scientific note warns that stomach acid can burn the mucous lining and cause pain gas and breathlessness from fermentation after eating or alcohol consumption. It recommends half a teaspoon of basic magnesia with water after meals to neutralize acid and stop fermentation, and claims relief confirms doctors' view that poor digestion stems from acidic contents, not stomach or vital organs.
Fragmented old market ad copy peddles Sandler Extract claims
A cluttered advertisement text extols Sander's Extract as a unique tonic with alleged stimulating powers and purifying blood benefits. It warns against eucalyptus oils and imitators, touts Woods' Peppermint Cure, Thistle furniture, and Clarke's World-famed Blood Mixture with grand claims of cures for scrofula, eczema, pimples, and other ailments.
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Clarke
Sanders & Sons
Sandur
Sander
Selina
Momma
Tilly
Australia
T. Walls & Co
Maryborough
Terang
Mos
Prices From Maryborough Produce Market Report
Commercial Maryborough Produce Market notes prices from James Lewins for yesterday. Vegetables include pumpkins 28 to 3s per dozen, parsnips 9d per dozen, beans 14d per pound. Fruit lists quinces 2s per case, pears 3s per case, apples 3s to 52s per case. Poultry fowls 2s to 4s per pair, turkeys 3s 6d and 64d per? pigs 14s to 25s each.
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Maryborough
James Lewins
Carisbrook Stock Market and Ballarat Produce Prices
Carisbrook buyers showed strong demand for 55 head of fat cattle with significant gains, extra bullocks and store cattle sold readily, fat sheep and lambs rose modestly. Ballarat and Melbourne markets followed with higher prices for wheat, barley, potatoes, hay, flour and dairy products in the weekly market report.
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Carisbrook
Charles Bucknall
Fencing Contract Sealed for Amphitheatre Depot Works
Notices invite tenders at Shire Hall Letton up to 9 am Monday June 8 1014 for supplying materials and erection of 49 chains of fencing at the Amphitheatre Depot. Plans and specifications available at Shire Hall Letton or Ennis' Store Amphi theatre.
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Enders
Shire Hall
Letton
Erec
Itory
Lexton
Ennis’ Stora
Shire
Dunach
E. P. Dowding
Shire Secretary
Talbot Borough Water Rates 1914 By law
The mayor and council of Talbot Borough enact a 1914 water rate for the Water Supply District. Rates cover dwellings, hotels, government departments, stand pipes, troughs, factories, market gardens, orchards, syphon pumps, mining interests, and other charges with half yearly payments due January 1914 and July 1914.
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Burgensen
Borough of
Talbot
State School
Beal
B. Ford
P. W. Salmon
Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup and Patent Remedies
An old nurse’s relief items and patent medicines are advertised. Mrs Winslow’s Soothing Syrup promises teething relief for infants and diarrhea cure. Woods Peppermint Cure targets hacking cough. Clarke's Blood Mixture claims blood purification and cures for skin and blood diseases. Numerous prices and usage directions noted amid warnings against substitutes.
Harvey-Hempe Piano Forte Tuner Visits Talbot
H Harvey-Hempe professional pianoforte tuner is visiting Talbot. Orders are to be sent to the Farmers Arms.
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Talbot
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