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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Aug 27, 1918
Page
4
A collage of British war updates and local notices from August reports include the Central War Loan quota note, discussions on coal supply, traffic union tensions in London, Ulster and Ireland manifestos, an English balloon incident near Jutland, wage debates, Italian advances in Albania, and a 61 year old jail superintendent’s death in Townsville. The item ends with a local proverb and an ad tagline about a tonic.
The article previews a Fox super feature inspired by Dickens, starring William fm as Charles Darnay and Sidney Carton with Carton performing on screen. It touts large-scale revolutionary scenes, a crowd of seven thousand in one sequence, and a vivid Market Square mass execution. Saturday offers Kedhe and Wil sath with The vbatic Kuet, plus Sins of Her Parents and The House of Terrible Scandal.
Marie Os mond, known as Madame Thebe, is an astrologer in Chicago with a wealthy patron. A swayer, Peonry Marvin, pursues her, but she rejects him and cites a past marriage to an army officer as the reason.
A fragmentary cinema page advertises a program featuring Womanhood with a melodramatic plot and a final night showing. It promotes Charlie Chaplin in a new comedy and the serial The Vengeance of Legar, with the two reel opening of From Claw and a noted run of supporting pictures.
A garbled catalog style snippet lists various items including children shoes in sizes 4 to 7, boys tweed suits for children aged around 8, and basket hats. Prices and legible details are incomplete and interspersed with unclear text.
The duo presented two Mendelssohn pieces and impressed with Chopin Valse, Scharwenka Polish Dance, a gavotte, and Liszt Rhapsodie. A repeat of A Night in Venice stood out as the highlight. The company will appear at Gordonvale Thursday night.
The Mareeba weights are listed for two handicaps at Townsville with horses such as Reval Actor Roget Selim Bey First Demas and Ferns Laddie in the Flying Handicap and Royal Actor Roget Tremny Dives and Selim Ber in the Gallop Handicap noting the mile distance and assorted weights for each horse.
The Yungaburra Club schedules a patriotic meeting in September with a £50 programme. Arrangements are nearly finished for a special Cairns train to Mareeba for the Friday meeting.
A garbled listing of horse names, weights, and handicaps appears for a Townsville event. Entries include Bright Flash, Persian Gulf, Anka King, Red Maori, and Lady Eurasian among others with various weights and distances noted, resembling a racing card snippet from a historical meet.
Reborn Stakes runner-up Rebus has risen as the 8 to 1 favorite for the Epsom. Amadis de Mig Mext trained by W Booth at Rosehill remains a strong Epsom candidate. Kil pore, a New Zealand bred colt owned by H Lowry, is also considered. Leads note Australian shipments of English sires and mares for New South Wales stud duties.
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