This week, in episode 022, Steve leafs through the South Australian Advertiser from Australia Day 1869.
A butcher
Thomas Balantyne, Butcher, 10 Rundle Street.
- Hams
- Corned beef
- Pickled tongues
- Fine pickled rounds of beef
- Minced collops
- Sausages
A carmaker
No problem about car making factories or choosing mass made models, you can get your own custom made.
Thos. Barlow and Sons, carriage builders
- By appointment to HRH The Duke Of Edinburgh
- And for 13 years to the Governors of SA
A biscuit maker
The Duke seemed to appoint artisans of every kind!
Prize Medal For Biscuits
Everyone who apreciates excellent, well-baked biscuits should make their purchases at Calder’s, 130 and 43 Rundle Street, Adelaide. By appointment to HRH the Duke of Edinburgh.
Snake Oil Merchants
Holloway’s Pills. Headline: Health for a shilling.
Most of you now residing at the Antipodes have no doubt often seen your parents use thesee Household Medicines both for you and themselves; you and your children will act wisely in following their example
This Medicine Is so well known in every part of the world, and the cures effected by its use are so wonderful as to astonish every one
After listing a litany of things it cures, the ad then claims:
COUGHS, COLDS, AND ASTHMAS. No Medicine will cure colds of long duration or such as are settled upon the chest so quickly as than famous Pills. Even in cases where thy first stage of asthma has appeared these Pills may be relied on as a certain and never-failing remedy, particularly if the Ointment be simultaneously well rubbed into the chest and throat night and morning.
A different snake oil merchant claims:
A WARNING.— Do yon suffer from physical incapacity? Are you suffering from nervous debility? Have you been the guilty victim of any secret vice? net T Do you esfiex from a set cf symptoms nearly akin more or less to th following:—A pretty fair condition cf health, not positively ill, but a feeling upon you that you are not quite right, a malaise; tendency to despondancy; a slight occasional loss cf memory ; sometimes a weakness across the small of the back and legs?; on waking a feeling as if unrefreshed; a general depressive —a want of pluck as it were; less desire of business than formerly; and you are troubled with a certain feeling of nervousness?
If you are to be warned in time you now have the means and opportunity of being restored to health. It is at this stage that your disease, by a timely application of remedies and regiment can be eradicated, and your system invigorated, your manhood restored to that state that you may and can fulfil the duties required of you by your social and moral being. Be warned, also, to whom you apply. There are two rocks upon which you may split—the one being the legally qualified practitioner, who although fully qualified by his knowledge of profession to treat the various general ailments of humanity, yet be totally ignorant (as the majority of them unfortunately are) of this peculiar branch of his science, that reason, being that he has never made it his area of study; and the other risk is the blatant charlatan and quack, who preys on the pockets and lives of his victims.
It then continues lauding the trust one should place in Dr L L Smith from Melbourne. Followed by:
The following works by Dr. L L Smith can be obtained direct from the author on enclosing stamps; 6d. extra, postage free:—lmpotence and Sterility, 4s. 6d. ; Obstacles to Marriage 4s. 6cL ; Means of Prolonging life, 2a. 6d.; How to get Fat, and How to get Thin,
Topics Of the Day
A temperance soiree will take place at St. Xavier’s Hall, this evening.
An amateur entertainment is advertised to take place in St. Mary’s Schoolroom, South road, this evening.
A correspondent informs us that the yield of wheat round Currency Creek is nine bushels to the acre, not more.
We are happy to state that the young woman, Emily Cranwell, who was so seriously burnt on Sunday evening, is progressing favorably.
We understand the Bank of South Australia is sending by the Aldinga, to Melbourne, about 200 ounces of gold, purchased since the discovery of the Jupiter and Barossa Diggings.
By an advertisement in another column it will be seen that Mr. J. M. Howie will deliver a temperance lecture in Ebenezer chapeL Ebenezer-place, Bundle-street, this evening – and on Friday evening he will deliver a lecture Burns And His Poetry.
On Monday a man named Patrick Shannon was admitted to the Hospital, suffering from severe bruises to the ankle of the right leg through falling over a culvert at Tralee on the previous evening. The joint is considerably swollen, and it is not yet known what is the extent of injury.
The following is an extract from the BorderWatch:— There is now on view at the Mount Gambier Institute what cannot but be regarded as a most singular curiosity It is a Piece of flexible stone. It is nearly a foot in length, will bend in any direction, and rattles when shaken. It is the property of the Secretary, who obtained it many years ago in India.
The North Railway is now a scene of bustling activity. Wheat is coming in very fast at all the Stations, and extra trains are required to bring it to Adelaide. We have been in formed that during the last week about 2,000 bags were brought in daily to the Kapunda Station, and efforts were made to forward it as quickly as possible. Up to the present time there are now great accumulations at the several stations.
Recently a ‘gentleman found an iguana and a snake engaged in mortal -combat near Euroa. The iguana was of a tolerably large size, and got hold of the snake at the back of its head, while the latter was coiled about its antagonist’s body. After watching the battle for a time, Mr. Jarnsan advanced to the combatants and turned them both over, but the iguana would not loose his hold of the snake which was dying fast at the time be left! Iguanas are frequently destroyed, but it is to be hoped that they will be saved for the future.
On Monday evening, the dramatic vocal, instrumental, comic, terpsichorean, and gymnastic company gave an entertainment at the Theatre Royal, for the benefit of Mr. Fry the scenic artist. The programme was new and varied, and was thoroughly enjoyed and warmly applauded by the audience. This closes the season of the present company who have exerted themselves most earnestly for the diversion of the Adelaide playgoing public and as far as the applause of those who have attended these entertainments is a criterion, with considerable success.
Redford, the bushranger, has again been creating some uneasiness below Wentworth, and three times crossed the mail on the route, but did not stop it.
All of these were found at the TROVE website.