The front page of the Advertiser, 5 August, 1914
Advertiser – September 1918
Monday 1 September p6
WAR TANK DEMONSTRATION
A scene of great activity presents itself to the visitor to the Unley Oval. Workers are busy making preparations for the tank demonstration. Carpenters, electricians, builders, military recruits, laborers of all kinds, are making everything ready… Shell holes, mounds, trenches and other obstacles are being prepared…Afternoon tea and refreshments will be provided each day. The Minister of Education has given permission for the school children of Adelaide to have a half-holiday in order to view the tank demonstrations… They are equipped with machine guns and some carry two six-pounders of long range.
Wed 4 September p6
THE RED CROSS
It cannot be said that there has not been a generous response in South Australia to the many calls for the relief of the distress and suffering entailed by the war. But the immensity and range of its activities invest with special force the plea the Red Cross Society is making this month for badly needed help. In contributing to its resources in the full measure of his or her ability the citizen is conscious that no more splendid work was ever performed than is undertaken by the organization which snatches from the trenches the hero, wounded or sick, and sees to his care till his futures is assured or, if need be, assuages his agony and comforts him in his dying moments, or if he be a prisoner of war provides him with the sustenance without which, too often, he would perish…
Wed 11 September p 12
THE ROYAL SHOW: GLORIOUS OPENING DAY: RECORD ENTRIES
The Royal Show was opened in the Jubilee Exhibition Buildings… The weather was the most delightful experienced since the close of autumn and brilliant sunshine added lustre to the already bright and attractive spectacle…
Monday 16 September p6
PATRIOTISM AND THRIFT
The campaign on behalf of the seventh war loan of the Commonwealth will be formally inaugurated today. New methods are being adopted to secure the success of this ‘financial offensive’ because it is felt to be necessary that new ground should be captured. Over a very large area the pecuniary resources of Australia available for war requirements have hitherto remained practically untouched… If the war should continue for, say, another year, it will be found exceedingly difficult… to finance the Commonwealth’s share of its cost unless this fund can be more liberally tapped…
Monday 16 September p6
A FOOTBALL FIASCO
The second semi-final match of the Football Association was to have been played on Hindmarsh Oval on Saturday, but it did not take place and several hundred people who attended were loud in their expression of disgust. The competing teams were Port Adelaide and South Adelaide…but only South Adelaide put in an appearance. They took to the field and after the advertised time of starting, the umpire bounced the ball and South Adelaide kicked a goal… From what could be gathered from officials the fiasco was the result of a dispute among those controlling the association…
Mon 23 September p9
This afternoon his Excellency the Governor will open the Artificial Limb factory at Keswick, and will be present at the official handing over by Lady Galway of the Curative Workshops…
Friday 27 September p9
LOSSES IN HEALTH AND MONEY
In an address delivered… today, Professor Meredith Atkinson, speaking of venereal disease, said he was profoundly aware that during the war the tone of Ausralian thought had steadily dropped. They were a less moral community and less careful of the moral tone of their outlook… He had no figures on which to base calculations, but he believed that Australia lost £3,000,000 a year through persons being withdrawn from production owing to disease…
