Gladstone Meeting Adopts Hedge Overhang Trimming and Appoints Representatives
Gladstone corporation met Friday in Gladstone with the mayor and Drs Goold Wynes Creber Ward Hann and the town clerk present. An apology from Dr Quinlan. Minutes read and confirmed. Correspondence from Municipal Association State Recruiting Committee and Rec OGC loan forms and from B.A.R. re burning weede porte received. Overseer report read and received. Motion to appoint the mayor Cr Wynne and the town clerk as representatives to Municipal Association carried. Another motion, to serve notices on hedge owners to trim hedges overhanging footpaths carried. Finance: paysheet and accounts passed for payment totaling £36 18s 0d.
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Wynes
Creber
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Cr Creber
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NOUJOL Drug Ad Claims Quick Constipation Relief
An old advertisement extols NOUJOL by Standard Oil Company claims it fights aging by treating constipation without GI side effects. It emphasizes that the remedy is nonabsorbed, non-gripe, and pleasant to take, marketed to doctors and consumers through chemists and stores.
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Fragmented Thought on Life and Intelligence
A compact scribe muses on how narrow minds cling to trivial ideals while life presses on, insisting that humanity often wastes energy on contrived cares instead of embracing reality with true understanding.
Facks and Roomers and Weather and War News
A fragment from a late 19th or early 20th century Australian paper mentions sultry weather, a new moon, and a February 26th fall moon. It reports a terrific storm in Victoria causing £100,000 in damage, and notes Mr J Mitchell to be Commissioner of Insolvency. It adds miscellaneous observations on courtship, marriage, and female independence, plus obituaries including Mr Patrick Henery and John L. Sullivan, and reports on taxation, martial law in Berlin, lime export ban, and other assorted vignettes and anecdotes.
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Forty Years Ago From the Arene Express February 1878
Fortnightly notes recall Dr Mc Gowan leaving next month for Milli cent and Manuel farewelled at Knapmen's Hotel Crystal Brook. An inquest at George Town probed Denis Fitzgerald’s fatal riding accident near Gulnare. T W Ingram parts with Laura Bank of SA, A S Murray presiding. Russians push toward Constantinople and Rhodesia as Hornby ordered to Gallipoli defense and Malta troop to be sent.
Australian War Worker Sees Devonshire and Plymouth
A correspondent recalls arrival in Plymouth for Australian war workers, describes welcome scenes, English and Australian contrasts in architecture and railways, and notes life along Devonshire roads. He observes scarce stock, modest horses, and the shift from draft horses to motorized ploughs as wartime needs drive agricultural modernization.
Wandering Daybreak Through War Time London
The diary narrator travels from Dover to London by night, describes silent streets and crowded stations, noting Australians disembarking at central London without guidance. The YMGA shelter provides meals and beds at modest rates, and dawn reveals a rain kissed West End amid wary crowds and a soaked Sunday clothes scene. The piece ends with a pause at Marble Arch and Paddington as shelter persists.
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Depend on It The Genuine Sanders Extract Promises Safety
An advertisement asserts the genuine Sandar's Extract protects against eucalyptus dangers and infectious diseases. It claims three drops on sugar prevent colds bronchitis and other illnesses and that the extract cures ulcers wounds burns and various pains with no harmful effects. It urges households to keep Sanders Extract on hand.
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Sander
District Council of Hall Meeting Minutes January 26
The District Council of Hall records a January 26 meeting advising no main road grant for year ending June 20, 1918. J Wilkins applied for year road rights between sections 418 419 and 500. granted on usual terms. Notice ordered to destroy rabbits on district land and to clear half width of adjoining roads. Tender accepted for Contract No 10 A and G Walton 107 pounds lump sum. Works include rubble road and drainage projects near Hoyleton School H Chapman Hoyleton Fuller Kennedy C Shrubsole H Boum and H Evang.
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Sander’s Eucalyptus Extract Praised by Melbourne Chemist
A. De Bavay of Melbourne testified in Victoria's Supreme Court that Sander's Eucalyptus Extract is superior to other eucalyptus products. He claimed it contains antiseptic healing ingredients not found in rivals and offers curative powers, preventing meningitis and typhoid, easing throat trouble, colds, rheumatism, kidney and bladder issues, indigestion, and wind. The extract is promoted as genuine and safe, with no experimentation on delicate constitutions.
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A. de Bavay
Melbourne
Supreme Court of Victoria
Sander
Balaklava Reports No New Diphtheria Cases
Health authorities report no fresh diphtheria cases since January 27 in Balaklava. Two patients are under observation. town quarantine may ease if no new cases arise within ten to twelve days. Public school reopening is tentatively planned for Monday, with Sunday schools possibly closed. Alarmist rumors have inflated figures and deaths, but officials state the epidemic has abated and normality is near.
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Balaklava
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