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Newspaper
The Areas Express
Location
Booyoolee, Victoria, Australia
Date
Oct 10, 1919
Page
3
Gladstone gears up for its Gladstone Day celebration with a Soldiers Memorial fund drive. stalls offer sheep and goods, bullock ordered for butcher’s stall, prices set, and processions with costumes. Volunteers needed to set up and run stalls at the town hall.
An advertisement for Gander and Bens Eucalypti Extract promotes its use for bronchitis colds and rheumation. The copy mentions seven uses and references various ailments in a promotional, period voice.
The Gladstone council met Friday October 3, 1918 with mayor pre centorhs and councillors Cra Oreber Wynee Quinlan Ward Growden Hann and the town clerk present. Minutes of prior meeting read and confirmed correspondence noted including payment of gift of 240 pounds to Returned Soldiers and several local association items. Reports and finances discussed payments totalling 72 pounds 13 shillings 5 pence. Debates covered provision of five casks of beer, disposal of the hospital fund, opposition to raised price for a two horse team for returned soldiers, street maintenance plans and dayman duties for Gladstone Day, footpath notices, and a request for seven days to obtain a slaughtering licence.
A wedding on Wednesday September 3 united Miss M. Boog and Mr T. O’Reilly at Aldgate with organist Mrs D. Critchley presiding. Guests wore cream silk and orange blossoms. a reception at Rosewater Hall featured blue and white decors, generous gifts, and a late-night dance for about 60 couples.
A clipped exchange shows a woman asking a doctor to resolve food scarcity by killing chickens as guests arrive and a signed copy of the Peace Treaty remains tied to French records. The garbled text suggests disrupted notes about the treaty and allied commitments.
The Booyoolee Estate land sale in Gladstone attracted a large turnout as Messie Bagot, Shekea & Lewis Ltd, under trustees instructions from late H. B Hughes, conducted bidding. James Wilkinson oversaw the sale with Lot prices paid by buyers including O H Lines, T S Kerin, Mrs G Lines, P H Scarlett, and others across multiple allotments.
The CalTowie newsletter notes the Graham Trophy series ending with H Hartwig's 291 securing first place. Scores list Fellenburg Watson and others, with detailed tallies across 200 and 500 yards. Georgetown also plans a soldier memorial in the Town Hall with a nine hundred dollar project and a gold medal presentation for returning servicemen.
Article notes teen girls are prone to anaemia and nervy conditions. It stresses keeping blood rich and nerves nourished, promotes nerve nets as a reliable remedy sold by chemists at 3 shillings per box, with supply and multi-pack discounts.
Forty years ago report from Arosa Express describes a stormy Sunday with strong winds and heavy rain, followed by a monster railway meeting at Yarrowie on Saturday. Resolutions favored building a railway from Coonatta via Appila to Yarrowie, presided by C. W. Hirsch with speakers including HN Masters, Stepheny, Christie, Lewis, Hide, T. H. Francis and Tremiph.
A rambling missive reflects on youth, marriage, and local sports in a small town. Appy Arry recalls schooling, dating, and social jests, joking about football season, beer, and money worries while praising youthful spirits and community quirks.
A vintage shop advertisement offers edible vegetable seeds flower seeds and bulbs, cut flowers wreaths and various garden supplies. It promises up to date selections insecticides sprays pumps garden tools and manures with expert free advice and orders attended to.
A chaotic collage of weather chatter and stray facts headlines includes rain forecasts for Facka and Roomers, lunar dates, bread price changes, and railway strike wrap ups. It also cites riots in America, floods in Spain, bones in the human body, and various oddities about queens, boats, and public life.
Georgetown district council minutes record decisions on fencing gates road works grants to Yacka Rifle Club and poundkeeper appointment. Rates set for 1919 20 and tenders accepted for limestone sheeting on local roads. Next meeting scheduled for October 18 1919.
A letter from J Hopeing of Auckland dated 20 May 1918 extols Sander’s Eucalypti Extract. He and his family have used it for 43 years, crediting rapid relief for a gunshot fright incident and noting substitutes failed to work as well.
The Balaklava race meeting features TBE acceptance and selections across hurdles, jumpers, and long odds options. Choices include Pinballis or Ssota in hurdles, White in Trisla, Holy War in ankle, Bangoule or Fild Glaser in the Balaklava Handicap, and Anton Belleoe in jumps with Queerbrook as an alternate, plus Flying with Anton Belle or Wizzo in the Flying event and Royal Pomander or Wield Grase in the Welter.
The dialogue reflects on pivotal historical moments: the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand on June 28, 1914, and the signing of the Peace Treaty on June 28, 1919, marking shifts in European history and the road to postwar settlement.
A 1919 article from McArthur reports on Oeshbus Jarves facial sinus disease in sheep caused by Nasal bot fly larvae. It details the life cycle from egg deposition near the nostrils to larval development in the nasal and frontal sinuses, possible brain effects, limited mortality, and attempted treatments including trepanning and preventive feeding troughs with tar or antiseptic coating.
Port Pirie council discusses potential deviation of the Exst-Weet railway line from Redhill via Wandearah to Port Pirie and Port Augusta. Members urge public meetings and petitions, and want federal and state railway representatives to declare routes and support safeguarding Port Pirie interests.
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