Jamestown’s Busy Past and Growing Town Life
Sixty one years ago Tom Gordot visited the Review Office where he began as a Printer’s Devil in 1883 at Jamestown. The 1888 town was a small but booming farming hub with G T Lake and Thrupp owning the paper and printing office.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tom Gordot
Review
Tom
Agriculturist and Review
Jamestown
Printer's Devils
Newspper
Messrs
G. T. Lake
Thrupp
Ayr Street
Court House
Ali
Gage
Tom Gordon
Australia
Adelaide
Melbourne
Sydney
Jamestown Bowling Club Sees Cal Towie Club Win by Five
Jamestown hosted CalTowie Club on Saturday May 4 with high standard play on a fast green. After tight matches CalTowie triumphed by five points as Salton Potter O Gorman Jennings led Jamestown effort in a string of contests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jamestown
Caltowie Club
Caltowie
Farewell for Gladstone Shell official L Yates
Gladstone residents gathered at Memorial Hall to bid farewell to Lawrence Yates a Shell representative who resigns to join the Civil Service Investigation Branch. Speakers praised his work and courtesy and wished him prosperity. A welcome was extended to new head teacher M J Pyne and successor T G Keane.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gladstone
Memorial Hall
Au Tevoie
Lawrence Yates
Shell
Civil Service
F. C. Grubb
Yates
R. A. Mundy
Mr. Yates
Messrs
M, I. Pyne
W. 8
Wiliamson
M. Hen
M. J. Pyne
T. G. Keane
Grubb
W. S. Jarrett
Messrs Grubb, Pyne and Miller
Auld Lang Syne
Shell Company
W. Law
Kapunda
Boogoolee
Dental visit by Mr W Thomson and Dr Boyle in Gladstone
Dental announcement notes Mr W Thomson BD of the RAAF and M S Boyle dentist of Jamestown will visit Gladstone monthly. They may be consulted at Mr Warm’s chemist shop on the fourth Monday each month from 10 am to 4 pm.
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W. Thomson
RAAF
S. Boyle
Jamestown
Gladstone
Warm
Welltree
Moore
Tugs
Witile
R. Adelaide Surgeries on First Floor Shell House
R. Adelaide surgeries organized on the first floor of Shell House located on North Terrace.
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Adelaide
Shell House
North Terrace
Local Agent Appointed for Texaco Non-Pool and Farm Products
Swishes announces appointment as Local Agent for Texaco non pool products Industrial Oils and Greases and Farm Products. Call or ring W. G. Cook for inquiries about these lines.
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H. V. McKay
Massey Harris
Louis Dreyfus and Company
Cooper's Shearing
Texaco Products Goldsbrough, Mort & Co. Ltd
FORD
Caltowie and District
Texaco
W. G. Cook
Also Mentioned on This Page
Peppi
Matthews
Matthews Emporium
G.B
Christian Science Monitor
Chiiaen Science Publishing Society
Inaios
James Smith
General Commission
Studebaker
J. & R. Forgan Ltd
Crystal Brook
Port Pirie
Jamestown Bowling Club
Salton
Potter
O'Gorman
Jennigs
Parker
Nayda
H. Royal
Tapp
Paech
Baker
M. Holland
Thomas
L. Holland
McCallum
Etems Larsson
Ridgway
Smith
Noonan
Mr. L. Yates
Radiotron
Laubman & Pank Ltd
Gawler Place
Certified Opticians
Gibson
J. H
Vanstone Dentists
Wirrabara
Booleroo Centre
Laura
Georgetown
W. G Cook
H.F. Holmes Fruiterer, Greengrocer
Confectioner
Main ST
Eudunda Farmers
Eudunda
G. W. Skinner
Subway
Main Street
A. C. Read
City Mutual Life’ Life Ass. Co. H. V. McKay Massey Harris Pty. Ltd
H. S. Stevens
Ford Dealers
A. E. Ralph & CO
Irvine Street
P. Wilmshurst
Move
A. E. Ralphi
J. H. Smour & Sons
Bakers
Jamestown and
J. Horsburgh
Justin
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