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Newspaper
Tambellup Times
Location
Tambellup, Western Australia, Australia
Date
Jun 10, 1914
Page
6
Deeply interested in home needs, the ad promotes Bur F deal in Furniture and Furnitivee. It touts good wind resistance, reliable design, long-lasting quality, and affordability, inviting correspondence. The ending hints at mystic letters to be learned from JP. Wanke advertising.
The Under-Secretary for Agriculture reports scrutiny of Gratwick's Beat All a claimed wheat treatment costing 2d per acre. Officials note royalty demands, lack of substantiated results, and the impossibility of replacing superphosphate. Trials praised for openness, but deemed inconclusive.
An OCR fragment touts Woods' Crean Peppermint Guru as remedy for sore muscles bruises and burns plus colds. It references Better Uiau the Best and promises quick relief without toil, presenting a faded health ad voice from a bygone page.
A proposal seeks federal state and city support plus private endowment to establish laboratories for studying criminal pauper and defective classes. It outlines a director and staffing with salaries, equipment, and a $5000 appropriation, aiming to begin with criminal classes and expand as needed. The work would be sociological and practical, not strictly pedagogical, and could influence public policy and reform efforts.
Local tennis results show Gentlemen’s Handkings Sind 215, Calvan 80, and mixed results like Hoglin beating McLinlock with several close scores. Ladies Handicap Singles feature Miss Hoglin defeating Mrs McLinlock, while Pettit and Burbidge also posted wins. The club plans a euchre and dance on July 1 with tickets two shillings for all, plus a grand fancy dress ball on August 5 at the Institute.
A meeting at the residence of Mr W G Patterson discussed building a public hall in Cartartioup district. A Recreation Committee of Patterson, Hadditon, Newbes, Granjp, and Whiteside (secretary) was formed to raise funds and apply for a Government grant to complete the hall by year end.
June Lifey magazine surveys big-game costs in Africa with notes by Archer Russell, a seasoned Adelaide hunter, and photographer. Dr Henry O'Hara of Melbourne analyzes radium cancer treatment prospects. Readers in New South Wales enjoy chapters from Jack London and other Australian writers amid European travel tales.
Woodanilling residents report a rifle club spoon shoot on the 600 and 700 yard ranges with H Smith winning the spoon and J Douglas the knife and fork. Tennis club social planned for June 10. A Baptist church debate on compulsory military training ended with a narrow pro train result. Farmers and settlers meeting at Coflie Palace elected officers and rejected political pacts and pledges. New members joined.
Melbourne market reports a range of grain values with Wheat and Flour prices noted as unsettled and firm, flour around £9, pollard £5, chaff and hay values listed, oats and maize quoted with various d shifts, onions and other commodities recorded. Adelaide market notes quiet Wheat, flour £8 2s 6d, pollard 2d, bran and oats with limited demand and slow buyer response.
A reader from Paper Bark Creek asks the Tambellup editor to publish practical farming guides for Wester Australia. He notes old country methods differ from local conditions and urges distributing free pamphlets and bulletins from the Agricultural Department and nearby societies.
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