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Newspaper
The Areas Express
Location
Booyoolee, Victoria, Australia
Date
Jun 26, 1931
Page
3
A collage of quips and adages on life humor and farming from a late nineteenth to early twentieth century page. Light observations on marriage money and social manners mix with puns and jokes involving mothers daughters policemen and farmers.
District Council meets on Friday June 12 with notes on road repairs in Yougala Ward and main roads near Thos Gooles and James town Clare road. Fines on rates remitted for eleven cases. new assessment tenders invited. next meeting scheduled for June 26, 1931.
A provincial letter questions Mr Bowden of Avery foris it Alford directing a long list of Wheat Pool and merchant practices. It argues the pool keeps affairs secret, questions average prices in 1929-30, and notes abuses against farmers. It asks Bowden if he has pool experience and probes merchant book audits and contract flaws.
The Jamestown Golf Club reports a local win over Cla stone with the men 7 end 17 to 3 and Associates 5 to 3. Results list many head-to-heads, and a Te Rowie trip is planned with cars leaving Hamilton’s shop at 1 PM. Subscriptions must be paid by the 20th to play future matches.
Northern Areas Football Association standings show Jamestown seven wins and 14 points, with Georgetown seven games and 46 points. On Saturday Gladstone hosts Georgetown while Jamestown visits Wirrahara as teams list players and club notes record admission raised to one shilling for adults and half price for children due to umpire costs.
An early 20th century remedy named Woods' Great Peppermint Cure is marketed as first aid for coughs colds and influenza providing quick relief and general wellness claims for affected patients.
Next Saturday at Gladstone Club a men’s second qualifying round for the Found Club Championship and a fifth routed Handicap Trophy stroke competition are listed. If too few ladies enter the Pt Pirie Championships, the club postpones the championship and runs only a stroke event.
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