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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Aug 09, 1920
Page
1
Fragmentary ad text from a Herberton hotel listing mentions a waitresses job posting and general notices. It references names like Spindle and Sam and places such as Atherton and Adareay Dal, with scattered phrases about tying, pens, and a house to let. The readable items are incomplete.
Fragmented LOI style notice indicates property for sale or lease including rooms, a dwelling, and a house near Lemnat Dwelling at a Kitchen. Mentions Draper Street and nearby Railway Workshops, stock and horses, cases of furniture, mattresses, and a sale by Clarke Auctioneer. Includes price requests and location clues in a distressed OCR passage.
Readable segments announce Palace Theatres Tonight with a special children’s program including juvenile fun makers, a rollicking comedy picture, and serials. The lineup features Heart of the Wilds, Elsie Ferguson in a stage adaptation, and The Cairn among other attractions. Local ads list real estate, rentals, and property notes around Lake Street and Cairns Street with prices and terms.
A fragmented advertisement describes land near Lake Street Cairns with holdings including 254 cattle, 190 horses, and a horse yard. It mentions stock, clover river farming prospects, and a resident occupatory licence, offering a large tract with river frontage and several selections for farming and grazing.
A garbled clipping shows buyers of a Caribbean meat supplier facing anger as rejection of a bid triggers dispute. Names and exact details are unreadable, but the fragment hints at a hotel related to the controversy and a commercial disagreement.
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