The front page of the Advertiser, 5 August, 1914
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Advertiser – September 1915
THE PARK LANDS
PROTEST AGAINST FURTHER ALIENATION
A meeting of ratepayers convened by the Adelaide Parklands Preservation League was held in the Town Hall on Thursday afternoon to protest against the attempt by the Tramways Trust to take more park lands by cutting through the park from Hutt road to George Street Parkside…
Friday 3 September p10
THE DENTAL EVIL
STEADY DECADENCE OF TEETH
PROMPT ACTION ADVOCATED
The need of the times has brought the subject of dental decadence home to the people. Men who have offered their services to the Empire and who have been physically fit in every other respect have failed to satisfy medical examiners upon the serious matter of teeth. The results of dental disease have disqualified, many who were anxious to respond to the call of duty. The neglect of years has been forcibly brought home to the people of today…
Saturday 4 September p18
STILL ANOTHER CONTRIBUTION DAY
During the last six months the public have become quite accustomed to appeals made in the streets by collectors for contributions towards special war funds, and the list of special days is gradually growing. There have been two this week. Tuesday was Wattle Day and Thursday was French Flag Day, and arrangements are now being made for the celebration of Anzac Day, but a month will elapse before the Anzac collectors will buttonhole citizens. The Secretary… stated on Thursday that the first meeting of the ladies committee to arrange for the Anzac demonstration on October 13 would be held at Parliament House on Monday afternoon…
Friday 10 September p6
COMPULSARY SERVICE
A NEW LEAGUE FORMED
A movement is being set on foot in Adelaide for a propaganda in favour of compulsory universal military service. The matter has already been taken up enthusiastically in Sydney…
The following manifesto is being issued in connection with the movement:
The Prime Minister, in a phrase which every Australian endorses, has declared that Australia would send her last man and spend her last shilling in defence of the Empire. This extreme necessity has not yet arisen. But we cannot shut our eyes to the fact that the situation is one of grave anxiety… Australia has done much, but she has not done enough… It is now evident that voluntary effort is not meeting these requirements… The people of this country, through their Parliamentary representatives, muse voluntarily adopt the principle of compulsory and universal war service for all classes…
Saturday 11 Sept p15
A RELIEF MAP OF GALLIPOLI.
When Major Patterson returned from the Dardanelles he brought a series of contour maps of Gallipoli Peninsula, and these, together with descriptive information supplied by the officer, have been turned to good account by Mr. G. Barnes, the art specialist in the service of the Public Library Board. With the aid of clay Mr. Barnes has produced a model of the peninsula in relief and to scale, showing the whole, of the mountains, rivers, lakes, and other features of the country, and as it is about 5 ft. in length it is possible to form an excellent idea from it of the difficulties the Allies have experienced in driving the Turks out of their strongholds…
Saturday 18 September p14
THE LATE LANCE-CORPORAL G. R. SEAGER
Lance-Corporal George Rothwell Seager, who was killed in action on August 7, at the battle of Lone Pine, was only 17 years age.He was the youngest of three brothers at the front, Captain H. W. H. Seager, of the 10th Battalion, and Trooper E. C. Seager, of the 4th Light Horse (Victoria), being the other two. He was in the naval action against the Germans at New Guinea last spring, and on return home he joined the machine gun section of the 9th Light Horse.
