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Newspaper
The Areas Express
Location
Booyoolee, Victoria, Australia
Date
Nov 15, 1918
Page
3
The community marks Germany’s armistice with nationwide jubilation. Crowds cheer, bands play, and prayers and addresses honor the Allied victory, with leaders praising sacrifices and hinting at postwar responsibilities as dawn arrives on a new era.
Nov 12 report from Huddleston notes a successful evening in aid of the Trench Comforts Fund with coffee stalls. Proceeds totaled £12 18s 6d after competitions and door takings. Participants included Miss Daniels and Miss McNeil, with supper by League of Loyal Women. Georgetown celebrations marked the armistice with bell ringing and a Kaiser cremation. A crane petition was started for railway improvements and St Mary’s strawberry fete announced for Nov 23 with tea and strawberries.
An advertisement extols GENUINE SANDEE EUCALYPTS EXTRACT as safe and effective. It claims protection from eucalyptus oil harms and cites a Melbourne Age report on eucalypt lollies poisoning 30 girls in 1916. It asserts Sand er's Extract prevents meningitis and infectious diseases and aids ulcers burns eczema respiratory and rheumatic conditions with no harmful effects.
A collage of wartime quips and notices extols victory and unconditional surrender, cites costs and casualties, and mixes random obituaries, ads, and reflections. Mentions Armistice, Kaiser, and various business notes, with local names and places interwoven.
The Friday meeting included acceptance of prior minutes and correspondence. Town Clerk Peterborough Ta suggested appointing a North Health Inspector. a footpath issue from J Bleyre. and fire notice from 5 AR. Financials show £21 4s0d payable. Proposals covered use of the old Chamber for exams, North Health Inspector if funded by government, a new culvert at High and Croce Streets, rescinding tender resolutions, adjusting rates for 1919, repairing the Town Hall picket fence, tabled timber prices for the yard, stray cattle in North Gladstone, and scheduling the annual ratepayers meeting for Friday November 22.
In a letter from Auckland New Zealand dated 26 May 1915 J Hopeing extols Sander's Eucalypti Extract. He recalls using it for 42 years since 1876 to treat his wife’s neuralgia and facial head pain with remarkable relief. He notes substitutes failed to work.
Forty years ago coverage notes a large attendance at the Redbill races on Thureday ret in hot weather. Wild Irishman owned by Ro Loke wins the Handican, J Pritchard's cornet takes the Hurdles, and Lady Alic, owned by T Crouch, wins the District Plate.
The Coroner's Court heard that Alfred Williamsons died after a fight with James Hayes on Norman Street. Hayes faced a manslaughter charge as evidence showed a fatal brain hemorrhage likely caused by a blow or fall during the melee.
The Nur. 6th district council met to read minutes, consider fire notice and subsidy memo, review the overseer report, and discuss extensions for a contract on Meaner road. Financials show payments of £129 10s and Govt. Grant £13 5s, with extensions and vermin control measures approved.
Public health warning article warns against allowing sewage to remain on premises and criticizes constipation remedies. It promotes NUJOL as a safe lubricant produced by the Standard Oil Company with claims of ease and no digestion interference.
An old advertisement touts Doan's Ointment as a swift cure for all forms of piles including itching bleeding protruding and blind. It claims dramatic relief and mentions a specific price of 2/9 per pot with mail order from Foster-McClellan Co. 76 Market Street Sydney, urging buyers to ensure they get Doan's.
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