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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Feb 12, 1925
Page
2
A column satirizes modern art critics and cubist trends with a playful tale of a critic praising a wall sketch and a painter who mouths the avant garde. It mocks distorted drawing and color likened to Thames mud, arguing that contemporary art suffers from pretension and poor technique.
A fragmented report recounts a prison visit and a court scene in Midland town. The prisoner faces a violent robbery charge while witnesses and officers describe tense reactions and unclear motives amid a chaotic courtroom meeting. A vanished figure tied to a Murayathit has rippling social repercussions as events unfold.
A garbled OCR fragment references a disappearance and possible crime, mentioning terms like nerve, sale, Graceahty, Napelene, and a ferry door. Names and locations are unclear, with incomplete sentences and missing context surrounding a missing person and a related inquiry.
Scientists report success in controlling a plague of “deathowares beetles” using an experimental method. Researchers Lash Moore and Sita Panwer discuss the device and its potential to protect crops, noting progress at the lab and the promising outcome of the trial.
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