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Newspaper
Bowral Free Press
Location
Bowral, New South Wales, Australia
Date
May 11, 1904
Page
1
A stormy nocturnal scene unfolds with luminous bands across the sea as a violent tempest brews. The text laments a gallant wreck and loss on the waves while nature roars with thunder and shifting light. Bats, birds, and wind add to the eerie nocturne of shore and forest as the sea rages.
Fragmentary text lists several names and places such as Conlon, Gough, Kennedy, Morgos, Choaus and Bowral with references to contracts and private matters, but overall meaning and event are not decipherable from the readable passage.
Cable reports say Russian and Japanese armies have hammering each other on the Yalu for five days with modern weapons. Casualties are about 14 percent. Sydney's paper notes two larrikin pushes would yield better results with blue metal.
New rates took effect Monday with changes to large and small lot charges. The reworked system aims for fairer incidence on small consignors while maintaining revenue, and bulk goods may still use low scale truck rates. Redfern is abolished as a receiving place, with Darling Harbour handling country goods.
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