19 Aug 1918
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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Aug 19, 1918
Page
1
A long letter from a grateful patient in Gympie dated June 17 1904 praises John Abbott a herbal practitioner. The writer claims life saving cure after years of illness and near death, recounting prior failed treatments and improved health enabling him to work again and provide for his wife.
Ellen Brown, A.M.A., notes consultations at Halji dae's Turkish Baths in Brisbane. She promotes Elliott's Beef, Iron and Malted Wine as a nerve tonic, claiming daily massages for 15 clients and strong personal benefits, urging others to try the product at 3 shillings per bottle.
An advertisement touts Thermos as a skin cream that removes freckles, tan, liver spots, and brown discoloration. It claims dramatic restoration of a fresh, fair, youthful complexion and notes price 3/9 with postage 3d to Cairns agents and retailers.
The Monthly meeting of the Eacham Shire Council held at Maiseda en Saran was chaired by M Downs with A W Jones J G Winheld and GM Clarse J W Hanley and overseer J Snot and clerk Duncan Brown. Motions covered donations for the Red Cross the Atherton and Dirren Currig works road costs 200 for Geraldton road and public holidays for local shows and races with decisions on show dates and train return delays.
A council meeting in Atherton discusses delaying trains for a holiday event, approving a request to relay traffic and improve central meetings. Motions cover road maintenance, fencing, bridge work, land clearances, and cost sharing with nearby shires amid cyclone damages and planned levies.
A claim that Skeldon's New Discovery halts coughs and colds, prevents serious issues like bronchitis and pneumonia, and aids both children and adults. Advertises price 1/6 and 3/-. Available at all chemists.
A Petrograd born commander recalls leaving for the Roumanian front in 1917, fleeing to Odessa with his wife and children as the revolution toppled ranks and disrupted life. He details hotel sieges, regimental demoralisation, typhoid in his family, arrests, and a collapsed army structure, ending with uncertainty over pay and rank in the new order.
A fragmented entry notes a society or publication title The First Sneeze 18 The Danger Signal with garbled text suggesting a chemist or science circle. Readable parts hint at a periodical or column with unclear attribution and missing context.
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