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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Dec 10, 1928
Page
5
A garbled postwar reminiscence discusses profits from farming, land ownership, and railways affecting communities on the Atherton Tableland. It mentions soldiers’ memorials, the Tolowa to Tolga rail link, and local figures like Captain We and the Atherton Hospital staff, with scattered references to Italian workers, Canadian farm machinery, and regional development aims.
A Boston era article details a new resonant control street lighting system by Westinghouse Edison Electric illuminating Cape Cod and South Shore routes. Two electrical currents share a single wire via tuned relays enabling parallel lamp operation and remote switching.
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