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Newspaper
Bowen Independent
Location
Bowen, Queensland, Australia
Date
Aug 21, 1935
Page
5
Public notice outlines hours for the School of Arts Library and Reading Room with varied daily openings, holiday exceptions, and rates for baths, charitable functions, and dancing uses. Includes charges for traveling companies and hall occupancy, listing committees and administrator L. Mackenside.
The Collinsville notes describe a Monday Webb's Hall rugby ball event with Imt simple decorations and Probaska's orchestra, plus the dancing led by ALG and S. Brown. It lists prizewinners in ladies and gains, plus social updates on locals traveling and a general meeting with financials and golf results from the Mixed Foursomes championship and weekend play outcomes.
Racing reports from the Rockdale Mile at Moorefield to the Adelaide Guineas in Australia. Winners include Legiatador in the Rockdale Mile, Cunningham in Ayr Anton, Carousal in the Moablie Handicap, and Beamish Boy in the Adelaide Guineas. Jockeys, horses, and stewards discuss postrace events and a controversial jockeys’ whip incident.
The Tivoli presents One Night of Love starring Grace Moore in a romance about a famed singer trapped by a tyrannical lover. The film opens next Saturday with the supporting feature Gaming, a George M. Cohen drama.
Telegram from Bishop McGuire reports Father Walsh, former Roman Catholic parish priest at Bowes, died aboard the Bel Bea while returning to Ireland. He served here from 1920 to two years ago before health declined and he left for Australia and then Ireland. A requiem Mass will be held at 9 a.m. tomorrow conducted by Father Hegarty with Father Bray of South Townsville delivering the panegyric.
A broad list of names and locations is outlined for rewards not exceeding 508 for information that would lead to the committal or conviction of persons involved in killing or stealing cattle or horses. The notice cites various firms and individuals across multiple stations and properties, indicating wide geographic and industrial scope.
Classified notices list lost and found, To Let and To Buy, and other ad types with rates and booking notes. Includes pricing 8 Times Times 10 a 2/a 4/- 15 1/0 4/- 5/6 and consecutive insertions prepaid. Meetings tenders socials and entertainments not repeated under this heading.
Warner Bros drama at the Grand Theater features Barbara Stanwyck in a tense political intrigue role with Warren William as the attorney general. The plot centers on bribery allegations against a governor and an impeachment trial, with a strong supporting cast and short features on the program.
In Sydney a new wave of open four-ball play faces controversy as players with solo handicaps dominate events. The story notes a shift toward war path tactics against informal handicaps and crowding out club competition, with concerns about fairness and replication of the old formats.
Remington and Royal typewriter ribbons offered at Bowen Independent Office at 3/4 inch spooled supply in stock for office use.
Town Clerk reports work on a new rising main will finish Thursday for the connection to the hale malin ty system. During construction the town will be supplied from the red tank. Remaining work on the western side is set to take a couple of months and involves laying loam and related lines.
Bray Australian stage star Hert Bailey headlines Grandad Rudd in a lively, rural farce at the Grand Theatre in Briday. The show pits the comic old gentleman against a bustling family, with farcical schemes and slapstick that promises strong laughs and memorable gags.
A group of eight tourists from Sydney and Broken Hill arrived at the Grand View Hotel on Monday and boarded the Cheerio bound for Mackay under Captain Bruce Jamieson. The tour is organized by zoologist A. J. Marshall and the travelers plan a lone voyage departing September.
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