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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Dec 06, 1911
Page
4
A jumble of notices and snippets from Townsville includes arrivals and departures, visits by notable locals, church figures, and travel plans. Several names appear with trips to Cairns Cooktown Sydney and beyond, while social events and holiday preparations surface amid scattered items.
The Police Court dealt with several traffic cases. A cyclist fined 7/6 plus 8/6 costs for riding at night without a light. Another rider fined 7/6 and 3/6 costs for night riding without a light. A third offender fined 5/- and 3/6 costs for not keeping left on the footpath. Miscellany notes include visiting dignitaries and ship movements.
Readable fragments show arrivals including James J. Shore H. J. Cleary and others for Burns Philp and Co. The text discusses hypothetical flight burdens and gear with speculative measurements. It also mentions visitors seeking life insurance policies, with A J Draper as local agent for the National Mutual Life Association of Australasia offering surrender values and premium adjustments.
Fragmentary OCR text shows a small item listing prices and a lunch, but readable details are limited. The fragment mentions an item or event with pricing and a lunch offering, but lacks clear names, places, or dates to anchor a full summary.
Henry Clay Beatie, a young millionaire and prominent banker from Washington, was electrocuted at 7:23 pm in New York after the July incident in which he shot his wife during a motor ride. The city paused as religion and evacuation replaced daily concerns.
The report describes White Leghorn and Orpington chickens bred at an Agricultural College under government supervision. Notes include prizes for hens laying 189 eggs in 11 months, Lexhorn cockerels at 19/6 each, and Orpingtons from tested strains averaging over 200 eggs.
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