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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Feb 14, 1911
Page
2
A garbled OCR fragment describes a rough scene with mentions of flying, strength, a stream, and an operation. The text is incomplete and lacks clear entities or a coherent event. It reads like stray notes rather than a reportable item.
An event advertised by a mysterious promoter lured hundreds of men with a promise of a “white badge” and a social gathering. Attendees wore white items as part of the scheme, forming a test of belief, then learned it was a hoax as the crowd laughed and dispersed.
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