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Newspaper
The Areas Express
Location
Booyoolee, Victoria, Australia
Date
Jan 04, 1924
Page
4
Financial summary shows assessments and rates for 1923, bank balances, and expenditures. Includes General and Special Rates, arrears, subsidies, and cash in hand. Notes totals for Public Works and Services, Miscellaneous items, and Main Road costs and balances.
Weather warms with haymaking underway across the district while crops vary with persistent wet winter. Governor Sir Tom Bridges visited Millicent unveiling the Soldiers Memorial and attended a Jens Town Hall dinner. A fire at a shanty caused by a drunken returnee led to 14 days imprisonment. an inquest found no criminal intent. Obituaries noted Hugh McCallum’s death and mention of Dugald McCallum, a prize ploughman. Woollen mills planned near town, Freezing Works at Compton open, and rail relaying from Bordertown to Serviceton under way with rails replaced and a new road to Tailem Bend projected.
The article promotes Dr Morse's Indian Root Pills as a useful travel companion for sea and land journeys. It advises taking a nightly course before sailing to reduce seasickness and using the pills at sea to keep the system working smoothly. It notes long train or car rides slow the liver and digestion and claims the pills remedy sluggish digestion after hurried meals.
A directory listing over 20 000 names and 2 000 trade headings enables direct communication between traders in London and provincial towns, with export merchants and steamship lines shown. Printing options include business cards and large advertisements. parcel post copies available for £3 nett cash with order.
December 10 report notes a November 21 strawberry fete in aid of the Institute with perfect weather and visitors from Parrakie and Geranium Peake. Gross takings reached £87 6s 2d as prizes were awarded for pig guessing and chocolate boxes, plus nail driving contests won by Miss M Prouse and Mr R Wood. Harvest work and hay cutting continue, wheat promising, oats reaping underway, and wool prices up to 25 percent.
A poem warns that if a tall leader with fearless bearing has a hidden skeleton in a closet the exposure would bring grief and lifelong dismay. The verses urge remembering to forget such secrets rather than reveal them.
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