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Newspaper
Tamworth Daily Observer
Location
Tamworth, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Jun 08, 1915
Page
2
The report details the opening of a major trench assault with heavy fire from artillery and machine guns. The breakthrough requires cutting entanglements and a rapid, decisive push across a wide front to avoid costly retreats.
Government advertisement lists tenders for supplies to various regional offices and ports. It also advertises passenger and freight rates from London, Cape Town, Natal, and routes via Plymouth and Colombo, with details on classes, prices, and agent contacts.
Notices show F Marshall taking over a hotel with first class accommodations and a vivid list of farming and mining patent filings at the Commonwealth Patent Office in Melbourne. Names include KR Ross and C C Freeman with May filing dates. other inventors include C O Tucker WW Wibton AO Wannaford J J Mannaford W C Hancey and James Martin & Co. Ltd. Also mentions Sheldon digestive tablets and G Mallaby’s wines and spirits stock.
Charles Marshall runs the Commercial Hotel Bundarra offering superior accommodation. Best brands of wines spirits and beers stocked. Tariff eight shillings and four pence per day or thirty six shillings and twenty pence per week under Mrs Marshall supervision.
An estate advert lists 12 000 ton steamer details with cabin classes and London return fares from 42 to 123 pounds, plus special returns via Capetown. It announces timber supplies, saw milling, joinery, and brick works with walk-in sales and large acreage for grazing and cultivation in Tamworth and surrounding areas.
Trade notices show travel timetables between Bendemeer Moonbi and Tamworth with morning and afternoon departures. Listings include booking offices at Caledonian Hotel Tamworth Flyson’s Hotel and Bendemeer plus Palmer the Bootman. Also promotions for goods from gas stoves to buttons and a Natura Health Co representative visiting Tamworth.
Tamworth market reports show fat cattle yarded with about 110 head at Thornes Day sale. Best bullocks £9 12s 15d, cows £20 10s to £17, vealers £4 18s. Town sales at Mahony and Co yield dairy stock, horses and vehicles with varied prices. Wool, hides, tallow trades steady to up, Homebush sheep market weaker on larger supplies. Insurance note on cough remedies appears in adjacent ad copy.
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