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Newspaper
The Areas Express
Location
Booyoolee, Victoria, Australia
Date
Dec 27, 1918
Page
3
Gladstone Mayor cites war ending cheers and a strong town record. He notes council road work, footpath upgrades, park lands revenue, health efforts, and gratitude to the ratepayers, council, and town staff for a busy year.
A Christmas night sacred concert at Tresylva Park Gladstone drew large crowds despite poor weather. Led by R J Beckwith with Mrs B J McDonald and Mr S Matthews, the program featured numerous anthems solos and carols amid municipal praise and a £5 10s 4d collection.
E A GALE signs a New Year greeting to residents of the town and state expressing best wishes for prosperity and happiness in the coming year. The mayor closes with a hopeful note for the community.
A lifelong user from Auckland North 2 cites 1876 experience with Sander’s Eucalypti Extract. He and his family relied on it for internal and external relief, noting a substitute failed and praising the product’s effectiveness for neuralgia and head and face complaints.
A scattered compilation of items from Australia including political tensions with Spain and Germany, royal visits announced, fire damage in Sydney, and public health notes. Notable names mention Admiral Jellico, the Prince of Wales, and Mr Frank Janiegek. Various curiosities and aphorisms punctuate the page.
On Emu Creek Sishons and Moabe recount a morning when a tame emu wandered into the Sishon garden during a wedding day frenzy. Moab and Rachael help corner the bird as Sibon and neighbors chase it with a plough rein. The emu escapes with the reins, leaving villagers amused and bruised.
A December 13 ceremony at the Institute Lodge in Port Pirie presented Mr. P. J. Ryan with a fifty guinea cheque in recognition of faithful Liberal Union service. Speakers praised his decade to fifteen years of work, leadership, and town-wide influence, noting his sons’ returning from the war and his strong organizing skill.
An alarmist health note links constipation to susceptibility to diseases, including consumption, urging prevention. It promotes NOJOL from Standard Oil and warns laxatives upset digestion and are habit forming, claiming NOJOL offers a safer remedy.
A quarrel erupts as Moab strikes Sibhon with a hoe after a taunt. The dispute over a plough-scraper led to a great clash that began twenty years ago and remains unresolved.
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