22 Dec 1914
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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Dec 22, 1914
Page
1
An advertorial note extols THORA TOOTH PASTE as essential for sound teeth. It claims the paste is free from harmful ingredients and helps enamel, whitening teeth and tightening against microbes. The piece is signed by a Pharmaceutical Chemist in Lake Street Cairns.
Page notes publication dates for the Cares Post not on Christmas or New Year days with other mornings as available. It mentions Boxing Bay Hew Year's Day and timing of Seabird tennisfall, plus upcoming Cairns Jockey Club booth auctions and Starr-Bowkett sale receipts. A Babinda General Store opens at Bedrock Prices and Babinda township allotment lenses offered next month with rent reappraisal. Also notes sale of fittings and new welding cake decorations at Kelly Chemist.
The Taiyuan will arrive from Hong Kong via porte on Mthins. The Changsha will arrive from Hong Kong via Ports on Ithdamerr, 1915. Fearn ey and Co., Wid, agente.
Correspondents report a notice that tomorrow at 2 30 p m Messrs A L Draper Ltd will auction a four room house on an acre in Swan street Gordonvale with improvements and all furniture included. The report also notes political commentary from a German editor on German socialists and drilling.
The Cairne Traders' Association secretary notes shop hours: the shape opens today Tuesday evening and Wednesday 6 10 p.m. and Thursday until 1 p.m. Reopens Monday morning 28 inst. Shops enjoy New Year hours and open at 10 o clock on Thursday evening and close until Monday morning 1 January proximo.
J G Hoare will auction the motor launch base and dental notices in Cairns. The Meeramon Ta riotic League secretary urges distrubution of aid parcels for Belgians amid war distress. The Gordon Vale branch cleared a magisterial inquiry into Kate Wheeler’s death, while ads promote Craig’s Shampoo Granules and Bay Rum. The new Palacd Theatre in Lake Street opened with a large crowd and a vaudeville plus film programme headlined by Monkey Circus and Ivan Marshall.
Auction notice for a Freehold residence in Gordonvale to be sold at £50 per month. Includes lots 6 and 7 in Section 2 with 19 ft frontage on Swen Street and 132 ft frontage on another street, one acre, brick house with two front rooms, fenced yard, fowl house, good water. Furniture included. Auctioneer: J. Draper Ltd.
Mr Norman Siarch of the Cairns Daily Argus, a long time Cairns resident and activist, is praised as a civic leader. As President of the Cairns branch of the Australian Natives Association he campaigns for Australian made goods and welfare of the town. He plans to leave in a fortnight and receives best wishes from the Posit.
Cairns Pictures showcases The National Mug and Australian Juvenile Artists adding talent and versatility. Chester Harris delivers patriotic numbers, a strong feature in the programme. The War Gazette shows Arcian refugees fleeing, Red Cross motors aiding, and Mona Roman refugees from Rhine projects. The King of all Comedians headlines the Wart Veer program.
A fragmentary note proclaims Austral Pictures plans a long life size photo of Christ life titled Picture of life of Christ. It mentions a 5,508 feet length and references protection from intrusions. The text is garbled and contains stray phrases about armed guards and Bedouin, with an unclear weekly news mention and an incomplete shop header.
December 31 dispatch from Dus:kirk reports French artillery with 30 guns delivering heavy blows to German lines northwest of Arras. Germans abandon trenches as allies fortify outer positions. reports claim priest casualties in Amsterdam and inquiries into German outrages in Belgium. Other notes mention Paris, Italian Senate hopes for 1915 peace, and Allied gains near Nieuport with Verdun batteries destroyed.
A December 1 gathering in York formed 300 German volunteers to arm against England as Britain fights on the Continent. James Larkin urged Irishmen to arm, a free fight erupted with reporters struck by swords, the deputy sheriff restoring order. Professor Kung Meyer criticized Harvard for blocking a lecture. band played as a German American letter voiced impartiality claims and pro German sentiment amid Vera Cruz and Belgium references.
In Los Don December 21 two minesweepers between Secn borough and Filey were blown, a third damaged. The hulls of the crews were saved. Prince Patricia's Regiment is now in the firing line as the first Canadian contingent to attack the villages. British agents intercepted a report dated September 8 intended for Von Der Goltz.
Reported exchanges describe a menial push by Allied forces at Dunkirk with seven trenches captured and flooding hampering German counterattacks. French and Belgian troops bayoneted charges pressured German positions near Dixmude while street fighting continued at Saint-Georges.
December 21 reports from Dunkirk describe Allied aviation actions and German losses. A Taube mission toward Paris was shot down near Pontigny by French pilots. Petrograd notes claim two German bomber units were annihilated. Prisoners recount Von Muller dismissing Australian cruiser Sydney and British crew as underestimated.
A garbled December dispatch reports on antifeiian and New Zealand troops, imperial offers, cavalry terms, and a claimed title for Strasburg Lager. The text is distorted with misreads and odd spellings, making specifics unclear.
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