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Newspaper
The Areas Express
Location
Booyoolee, Victoria, Australia
Date
Feb 23, 1917
Page
4
A fragmented report recounts a farmer widow and a proposed match with Williamim, amid a public notice of engagement and the drama of a prior marriage. The text mentions Balaklava, Neighbourhood figures, and a planned voyage to Adelaide as part of a contested courtlike tale.
The fragment presents a fervent plea calling Belgians and Britons to resist German aggression. It condemns treachery and calls for vengeance, referencing Belgian cities and the Belgian cause, with invokes to justice and national sacrifice. The poem alludes to Hardy and Cavell in a martyr motif and to geopolitical outrage.
Extracts detail Broken Hill Proprietary results including ore mined 120 476 tons and concentrate output. Notes cover Zinn Concentration Plant operation, Newcastle steel works issues, and financials such as net profit shifts and debt instruments. Also reports on Open Hearth Furnaces, rolling mills, ore dressing, and lead–silver concentrates.
A reader from Harrion Burgh touts Kudzo as a superior perennial fodder plant. He claims it enriches poor soil, requires no fertilizer, resists drought, stabilizes terrain, and yields abundant cow feed with higher milk output than lucerne or bran. He cites United States use of four annual cuttings and urges planting in 8 by 3 foot rows for long-term pasture.
A fragmented wartime notice recounts Corporal Mitchell recovering in Birchow Bow hospital after a back injury and shell fragment. another soldier, Corporal Bul Skoog, writes from London with holiday wishes. It notes promotion for Major Claytnn and Private E. Bradshaw earning the Military Medal. The piece honors fallen and wounded, with family updates and wartime tribute from soldiers’ friends.
A YMCA military secretariat member on a troopship writes to the Nations Committee of the YMCA in Western Australia. He describes hospitality in Perth, the Blackboy Mill camp, and efforts to support troops with hospital visits, performances, and a home-league newspaper on board. Contributions marked Army and Navy Fund aid soldiers and sailors.
An advertisement-like note cites Mr John W secretary of an Eight Hour Labor Demonstration endorsing JEAN'S ESSENCE as an exceptionally good cold remedy. It touts moderate price, quick action and special appeal to workers with large unions. The product is advertised as obtainable from chemists and stores with two shillings for a pint of high quality elderflower tonic.
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