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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Dec 04, 1928
Page
3
Xmas shopping page highlights fancy department items including ladies pure silk hose and silk stockings. Features special prices on full fashioned hose, pale shades, peak heels, and Japanese oil paper products with labeling like ACB and 12/11 to 16/1 price points.
Silk kimon dress and white satin hats advertised with strong vowels and mis-spellings. Embossed backs and wide sizes in assorted colors. Ladies black fur frock, long sleeves, plain neck. Special prices listed: 15/11 09/-, 24/6, 12/1.
An advertising snippet highlights floral georgette, fancy silk de china, and striped jap crepe fabrics. It promotes special prices per yard and early range openings with notes of quality, wear, and washing performance.
Mens natural British fabrics and heavy khaki drill trousers offered with sturdy stitching. Includes belts, pockets, and durable wear. Sizes 1 to 7, special prices noted. Boys section features adaptable collar and best finish, price 5/11.
An elderly advertisement list notes special prices on linen towels and related fabrics. It mentions red and green striped designs, blue and striped verandah ticking, colored Turkish towels, and yardage prices such as 1/9 yard to 1/3 yard, with references to special offers from A.C.B. and others.
Footwear section showcases men’s glassy dark tan patent shoes priced at 79/6 and tan felt slippers with leather soles offered at special price. Ladies’ champagne Kip on smart pair promoted at 76/6, while patent shoes and other ladies’ styles list discounted pricing around 10/9 and 0/9 to 10/6 per pair.
A Northern Queensland page notes a spell of thunderstorms and beneficial rain easing the November dryness on the Tablelands. Basketball rises in popularity in Herberton with Trinity Cass visit and a 20 to 4 win, while Malanda holds off Herberton 68 to 0 in a tough football clash.
A Sunday picnic near Jaggan featured a lorry of singing adults and children traveling from Jaggan to Moreton's farm The Uplands on the Johnstone River The scene showed clear waters a broad river reach and tents with wattles The group enjoyed drinks toys water play a picnic lunch and games under the Greenwood trees The day wrapped with anticipation of returning the next day by the same route
Atherton sees new businesses opening including a grocery venture by W Dunne of Armstrong Leas and Stillman, a tea room on Main Street run by Mollie Jessop and Miss Neary, and two new hair dressing salons. The Atherton School of Arts committee discussed the rest room project with the CWA while a lively evening at an ambulance benefit featured films and performances. State financial and agricultural reports cover maize deliveries stock levels and planned engine-driver appointments, with growers’ annual meeting adjourned for lunch before resuming.
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