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Newspaper
The Areas Express
Location
Booyoolee, Victoria, Australia
Date
May 31, 1918
Page
2
The notice lists church services at Alban's in Gladstone for Sunday next after Trinity. Evensong at 6 pm features Lay Reader Tom.
The Frees furnish hours for the telephone office until 8 p.m and W L Parsons offers 2 percent on all purchases. Meesra Eider Smith Co advertise Gladstone sales next Tuesday with 1370 sheep 15 cattle pigeons poultry and sundries. Australia Day meeting at Gladstone Town Hall next Wednesday at 7 30 p.m. Red Triangle Button Day reported. final totals awaited. King’s Birthday public holiday observed Monday with nine to ten post office hours and afternoon nails delivery. Old resident B Wainright dies after ten years illness. funeral Thursday morning officiated by Rev E A Jones. Monthly penal market held at Gladetope. strong cattle and sheep demand. Kinchega weepers and brisk bidding. yarded and sold counts detailed.
Local railway clerk Mr F W Riches departed by the evening train to Port Adelaide with the crew, carrying duties with courtesy. The Empire Day observance at Gladstone Public School featured prayers and addresses by church and community leaders. The Great Western Picture Company showed films including Contragray and Money Madness, with reviews noting a strong program and entertainments. A tragic obituary notes the death of War Budget staff Sgt. George W. W. Thompson who served in Gallipoli and France, with details of his family. A Melbourne chemist testified to Sander's Eucalyptus Extract's claimed superiority and healing powers, promoting its use for many ailments.
ABC CUP MEETING Second Day June 1 lists races and expected contenders like Tusmore Welter Old Coutes Trial Coppertown Varlin and Mumba King Lady Eudora Arisa Pathe Doiran Hawk wing Melbolt Martino Jones Steeplechase with notes on Chronic Cheat Complaints and Peppermint Core prices.
Gladstone audiences near full capacity for a YMCA funds benefit at Town Hall. Miss Langford’s Ladies' Concert Party presented a varied program with singing recitations and piano, the style lively and the performers dressed in white with pink accents. Mr Langford received praise as the show drew enthusiastic encores, with notes on elocution talent and strong audience response.
An advertisement extols Sander’s Extract as superior to common eucalyptus oils, claiming it prevents meningitis and infections, aids ulcers wounds burns sprains and eczema, relieves colds bronchitis and rheumatic pain, and notes a Melbourne Age report on dangers of ordinary extracts.
Letter from H Harrison discusses the Indian fodder and tree pea shrub as a fast growing, drought tolerant leguminous plant. It reaches 12 to 15 feet, bears yellow reddish flowers, produces pods with 4 to 6 dark gray seeds, and yields 500 to 2000 pounds per acre. It enriches soil, grows as mixed fodder crop or hedge, and could suit Australia New Zealand or South Africa.
The fragment urges a brisk walk in cozy cloth to warm the body and lift spirits. It suggests mixing hot ingredients and drinking a “pip” of warming Woods’ Great Popperming Cure to combat cold weather doubt before venturing out.
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