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Local Notices and Oddities from a Distant Coast
A mixed set of brief items: Yues raises 1400 in two days for Austrating Red Cross Day at Tyapamah North Coast. Milk supply at Forbes area falls about 50 percent despite no grass shortage. Mr H Strickland wins 700 pounds in a police and firemen carnival motor car race. Duaringa Shire Council writes off over 40 pounds in soldiers’ rates. A knife-wielded woman’s note leads to a fatal balcony foundering incident at Kig’s Pier Hobart. A peculiar distress call references a husband and supposed murder amid a dragged operation ended after hours. An ad urges Woods Peppermint Cure for blurred sight and influenza relief.
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