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Newspaper
Tamworth Daily Observer
Location
Tamworth, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Dec 08, 1914
Page
1
A dated advertisement touts a quick sellout of crepe and sponge cloth one piece dresses. Featured styles include trimmed dresses with turned collars, new sleeves, frilled skirts, and dainty florals. Prices range from 12/6 to 17/6 with high value claims and stock numbered items.
A broad article notes wartime demand and land use plans in New South Wales. It discusses shifting crops, timber outputs, and the need for capital to expand farming assets. It also mentions individuals linked to local governance and agricultural administration, and reports on public notices and community events in the region.
A garbled notice invites readers to a Ladies' College of St Oxterdirest in Sydney for a discussion on subjects in a formal gathering. It references the word motherhood and a public call to attend, with attendees urged to respond to a department number. The text is obscured and unclear.
A sprawling text of old time classified ads details vendors and services in Tamworth including jobs wanted and offered furniture lumber masonry tyres and hospital notices. It lists multiple businesses such as Stewart and Thomas tire and wheel services Glyde Chambers Bel Firest and the Great Northern Saw Mills with offerings from tires and house furnishings to timber and bedstead sales.
A store highlights Marshall Boots with distinctive style and authenticity. Advert says they offer wide stock and assured fit with prices from 14 to 2 and urges customers to order their Xmas suit soon to ensure delivery before the holiday.
The Tamworth store Harcourt's Limited advertises a merchant outfitter for men and boys with a phone contact listed as 252.
An ad promotes suitable Christmas presents from Gronwold & Son at Peel Street Tamworth. It lists pipes, gold and silver pocket items, smoking accessories, and cigar and cigarette holders with claims of first class quality and best value for money. The notice invites customers to visit for personal attention and mentions market price comparisons.
Extraordinary sale at Rogers features hats boots shirts clothing ties underwear and more with special offers on walk out of boots at 16/6. Promises great value as wartime hardships lessen and urges customers to buy now before offers end.
A detailed Victorian era advertisement lists A Madden as up to date hairdresser in the northern districts with leading tradesmen, a tobacconist offering tobacco and presentation items, a ladies underskirt, Princess Shape garments, a sports depot for cricket fishing boxing tennis and other goods, a silver and electro plate department, and funeral directors Callcott and Co. It also touts brick supplies including first class and double pressed bricks for builders.
Evelyn Everett-Oreen author of Married in Haste and The Marri includes works like Lady Elizabeth and the Juggernaut Dare Lorimer’s Moment in a brief notice.
A dated shipping and travel advertisement lists GUS RUGAN as a millinery and specialty house with contact via telephone 308. It promotes White Star Line passenger and cargo services from London to Durban and Capetown, routes via Durban and Capetown, and through bookings to Continental Ports. Dalgety & Co. Ltd are agents in Newcastle and Australia with fare ranges for first and third class and freight services.
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