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Newspaper
Warrnambool Standard
Location
Warrnambool, Victoria, Australia
Date
Mar 02, 1918
Page
2
Fragmented lines convey a wartime meditation on sacrifice and shared loss. It laments dead companions and calls for solidarity, asking if the living can bear the burden without shame or apathy, and questions the meaning of resilience for those left behind.
Fragment from a tomb describes a dinner with lentil soup fish boiled meat poultry and game. It praises a legendary Imperial Vegetable dish and hints at a digestive syrup marketed by a chemist for post meal digestion and vitality.
A heavily garbled OCR page mixes personal notes on crafts exhibitions and home decor with mentions of names, places, and wartime context. Readable segments reference exhibitions of textiles and needlework, clothing, and domestic scenes, interwoven with scattered names and events.
Yarded 88 head of cattle with fat cattle showing no advance. Prime cows from £14 to £18 and best springing cows from £10/10 to £18/5. Store cows from £8 to £15/6, wethers and lambs firm with prime lambs at £28 to £28.0. Sellers included Mesars O B Palmer Greed Bros O Sullivan Jas Hamilton.
An old advertisement touts Pinkettes as a laxative for constipation and indigestion. It claims the pink granules restore stomach and intestines, stimulate appetite, and are made from a clear material. The text offers a free sample from Dr Williams Medicine Co and a full bottle from chemists.
The document describes tyre width regulations and road protection measures, detailing load limits and weights for timber and firewood items, posts, rails, piling, and related materials. It lists quantities in cubic feet and bushels, with references to timber products and assorted goods, including straw, wool, and potatoes, as part of a broad public sale or registry.
Corpun W Dolan writes from Austreken General Hospital describing wounded comrades Bert Hulm recovering in Blighty Allan Eldridge wounded and in ward No 3 Branni Brannigan at Warrnambool in Aussie clubbed by trench action bayoneted and trapped in snow brigand noted but not awarded.
Final acceptances announced for the St Leger and Austral Cups include entrants from Leger, Pandass, Bordelph, Broken Wishing, Star Comeatan, Downing Street, Elvirian, and several others. The latest approvals came from the defense authority.
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