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Newspaper
The Areas Express
Location
Booyoolee, Victoria, Australia
Date
Dec 19, 1919
Page
2
Amid unclear text, Port Piste resumes practice at Gladstone with planned sessions at Crystal Brook every Friday. Officials mention Gladstone BYREY TORSDAT and local events, but details are fragmentary.
The Arcas Express will publish next week on Wednesday due to holidays. Mosses H. Bennett & Son of Gladetoce advertises a full Christmas supply including chocolates stockings decorated crates. The obituary notes the death of Mr Ted Oraher son of Mr J B Oreter of Wilmington and Gladstone after long invalidism.
The newly formed 18T Gladstone Troop of the Boy Scouts Association held a well attended meeting on Tuesday night. Plans were laid for the forthcoming event at Melrose during the Christmas holiday with seventeen scouts anticipated.
The Agricultural Bureau secretaries report a Wheat Board response on cornsacks pricing. The board controls price and wheat movement, with current rates yielding about 8 3/8d per bushel for corn sacks. They offer no practical remedy beyond noting a freight-linked price rise will offset costs, affecting farmers next crop.
The 187 era contest at Gawler featured 14 harvesters vying for a £4000 government bonus. Judges found no machine fully met all conditions and recommended partial awards to several inventors, with a second trial planned for Tuesday. The Boromia ship ran between Liverpool and New Orleans with over 290 lives aboard.
A playful family exchange centers on Bridgets cooking as the husband jokes about attempting to boil water. The lighthearted tease hints at culinary misfires and domestic humor.
Fragmentary note records a promised or tested amenate of 480 oF over hays related to Gladstone Soldiers Memorial with unclear details or attribution.
A university expert Dr W. Collinge of St Andrews weighs bird impact in fruit districts. He finds starlings eat 86.0 percent beneficial foods but 41.0 percent injurious, with regional diets showing 10 percent grain and 60 percent injurious larvae in fruit growing areas. Sprinklings on sparrow and lark diets are noted with varying harm and sustenance.
A garbled note mentions Sander & Sons Eucalypti Extract Manks and Miodee's Bocalpril with references to a larger bottle and residence in Auckland. It recalls a prior period with a switch and suggests ongoing complaints and identification of products, all in a personal, faded account.
A spoof note from Yarmouth Light imagines an editor spending all year at a desk to fix garbled copy and absurd statements about local residents. It lampoons repetitive editing chores by listing outlandish sentences about residents like Mrs Jona, Jos Doe, Harold Green, and others.
An old advertisement markets lander and Bons Eucalypts Extract as a universal remedy. It claims protection from infections fever and wound care external uses, with references to tonics and diaphoretic effects. The text touts reliability and parity of extract devices, though contains garbled phrases.
Fragmentary list of garden supplies and plants including seeds sprays pumps and plants. Mentions Bundle Street Adelaide and AXPERT A IE on any of Ane ehor FREE with numbers and stray terms.
A mosaic of quirky notices and brief items mentions burglaries around Adelaide, Christmas and New Year references, royal and political jests, and local tragedies. It notes deaths in Adelaide and Lincoln, England, plus a range of domestic tips, ads, and human-interest vignettes from the era.
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