France's Day appeal for widows and orphans aid
Australia launches France's Day fundraising through the French Australian League of Help. A Sydney Town Hall May 18 committee leads the drive for money to aid French war victims, with July 1 France's National Day and July 15 selling buttons and brooches in Sydney. The campaign spans NSW towns, with itineraries from Moree to Lismore and officials urging broad civic support.
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France
Australia
New South Wales
League of Help
Sydney Town Hall
Helen Munroberluson
Commonwealth
Premer
Wright and Kelly
Wousils
Red Cross
Sydney
Soubeitan
A. M. Robertson
Lismore
Moree
Narrabri
Tamworth
Armidale
Glen Innes
Tenterfield
Casino
Mur
Daily Telegraph
King Street
Wax for Burns Treatment Claims Cure by Ambrine Wax
A French doctor Barthe de Sandfort touted ambrine wax as a cure for burns. Despite skepticism, his fifteen beds grew to a large hospital treating soldiers burned by liquid fire and wrecked aircraft. Wax is applied while liquid, covered with gauze, then a second coating. flesh reportedly regrows with no scars. Frost and wound care are also mentioned.
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Barthe de Sandfort
Bartho de Sandfort
Eure
Wheat production costs in Dubbo district debate
At a meeting of the Dubbo Wirmers and Settlers Association a long talk on wheat production costs per bushel produced figures varying widely before settling on a 15 bushel crop costing about 3 3 per bushel. Acknowledgment of many contingent expenses and initial outlay suggested that an acre yielding 15 bushels would cost £2 17s 6d, or 3s 10d per bushel, with likely years producing well under 11 bushels.
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Dubbo Wirmers and Settlers' Association
Seaboard
Endurance horses of old New South Wales reach long hauls
Merrigal correspondent in the Bulletin lists endurance horses with feats across NSW. Jack Jane on a Little John get rode 80 miles from Merrigal to Cobbora in eight and a half hours. Alec Blick on Darkie covered 100 miles from Buttabone to Dubbo in five hours. Ray Adelaide moved Sam Meets from Dick's Camp to Dubbo, 60 miles, in five hours. Hobart Pasks with George Foley rode 120 miles from Collie to Dubbo in 11 hours. Tom Egan and Daniel Cameron drove prods from Dubbo to Mount Warris, 107 miles, dawn to sundown. Jim E Tonkin piloted Toby over 200 miles from Bathurst to Wellington in 48 hours.
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New South Wales
Jack Jane
Merrigal
John Get
Cobbora
Alec
Blick
Buttabone
Darkie
Dubbo
Ray Adelaide
Sam Meets
Collie
Tom Egan
Daniel Cameron
Buddah Lake
Trangive
Egan
Mount Warris
Jim E. Tonkin
M.L.A
Bathurst
Toby
Women Work and War Bring New World of Labor
In wartime Britain a shift in gender roles is urged as lasting. Women have taken over many jobs once restricted to men, and the writer argues this emancipation will persist beyond the war. Economic adjustments, union action, and state policy are needed to prevent wage undercutting and conflict as labor and capital adapt to a changed society.
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Pall Mall
France
Australia
Canada
Automatic Poultry Feeder Uses Peck Trigger Motive
A foreign devised automatic feeder for fowl entices pecking by fowls to rotate a gear driven by a delicate bearing. Wheat within a wire tube bait causes the gear to scatter grain from a galvanised supply, preventing gorging while rewarding the curious birds. Some birds learn to wait in a circle for the feed.
Morse's Indian Root Pills Economy Message
The notice urges frugal living during the crisis and promotes Morse's Indian Root Pills as a cost saving remedy. It claims the pills cleanse the system and keep the liver and kidneys working, reducing need for expensive medical treatment. Bottles contain about forty pills and sell for one shilling to one and threepence, depending on local trade.
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Marge
Morse
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Izod
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