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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Dec 06, 1913
Page
3
A jumbled assortment of notices and ads from a Cairns area paper mentions a death in Maryborough, local chemists and medicines, tailoring services, shipping to Melbourne and Brisbane, and visits by officials. Embedded are references to Mr J D Matter, Jona Sowell, and Inspector Skelton, with various vendor names and products like fly papers and antiseptics.
A garbled report mentions Mis File Campbell and a group including Mrs Semteriin's friends, Teh, and others in a confused scene about maintaining order. It references a person named Snel em rete and Wonee Rind, with scattered names and phrases indicating tension and a demand for quiet.
Fragmentary OCR outlines a financial notice for National Insurance Co. of 1.2 Ltd. It references capital figures, shares, and percentages, with garbled names and terms. The readable portions indicate a valuation around £180,900 and percentage figures tied to shares, but many lines are incoherent.
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