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Newspaper
Bowen Independent
Location
Bowen, Queensland, Australia
Date
Jun 24, 1911
Page
5
An assorted old time advertisement promotes Complete Household and Hotel Furnishers stock including beds, bedding, chairs, tables, wardrobes, duchess toilets, crockery, towels, and stover. It offers consignment fruit produce and framing services, with callouts for prompt delivery and a wide range of hardware and garden items.
Sugar Wages Board met at Mackay on June 6 to decide weekly rates for mill workers including keep, drivers, cleaners, and tramway staff. Rates range from 25s to 45s per week with specific duties named. after hours incur time and a half, double time on Sundays and holidays.
The Railway Department announces a new employee history book starting July 1. Each page will record joining date service capacity promotions salary increases and commendations at the top with most of the page for these items while the lower portion covers disratings fines and cautions.
Seated in a rickety New York shanty, Jane Perkine Williams once a Wall Street figure, is bound for state asylum. Letters and bonds valued in the hundreds of thousands line shelves beneath old newspapers as officials probe her finances and later life.
Proserpine notes report the annual Oddfellows Ball held in the Oddfellows Hall with good music by Mrs Macartney and local musicians, ministers by Bros and a well-run supper. Cold spell seen with frost, warmer now, and crushing planned for July 20 amid tramway extension work.
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