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Newspaper
The Areas Express
Location
Booyoolee, Victoria, Australia
Date
May 10, 1912
Page
1
The fragment outlines postage rates for printed papers and periodicals published outside Australia, including books, newspapers, and parliamentary reports. It references costs per ounce or part, intervals of publication, and authority with the Commonwealth Postal Guide.
Historical notice lists season 1912 sales of Galvanized Iron piping fencing wires and related goods with schedules for monthly stock sales on first Tuesday, third Tuesday, and various Fridays. It includes court and committee notes, subscription terms, and office hours, with messy OCR reflecting local government and auction timings.
The timetable lists passenger services from Gladstone Port Pine Blyth and Moonta via Brinkworth and Balaklava toward Port Pirie and Port Augusta with morning and afternoon departures. It notes express midnight services from Adelaide via Gawler and Gerovrie stopping at Gladstone and returning, with exceptions on Sundays.
The article reports Professor Dumont of the National Agricultural Institution of Triguon demonstrating that mixing superphosphate with well rotted farmyard manure improves fertilizer efficiency. Experiments in 1907 show higher yields in root crops and grain when superphosphate is combined with manure, suggesting farmers enrich manure with phosphates to boost crop output.
A fragmented line notes that rains outweigh sunshine for many lives. The snippet hints at gloom and weather impacting daily conditions, without specific names, places, or dates.
A garbled OCR style snippet advertises a cough remedy claim with mentions of babies cold and croup. The text is unclear and contains many misread words, making it difficult to identify coherent factual details or proper nouns. It appears to resemble a medical remedies promotion from an old newspaper.
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