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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Feb 16, 1912
Page
3
Fragmentary ad notice details a price or measure change for Ladies' white undershirts and related garments, noting trimming or sizing updates and a benefit or sale timing. The readable fragments reference 4/11 and 2/01 dates and a caution to save a pair of items.
A mixed column notes local notices and advertisements. Items mention botanists, chemists, travel, headaches remedies, grasshopper outbreaks, school staff, and social visits. Several names appear with casual reflections on purchases and local commerce.
The readable OCR fragment mentions Mies Maroney in Babinda and Cairns as a guest, with references to Sachs Street and Lindlees, plus Rempanta being sold at A. J. Draper's warehouse. It hints at early bird specials and a diner, but the text is incomplete and garbled.
A planned Gordon Mens Gab social last night was poorly attended due to bad weather and has been postponed to tonight at 9 o clock. Public transportation to Paines Ports departed from Sydney this morning and will head northward. The steamer St Albans is due at Caires Anchorage on Sunday evening from Chime and Japan with 50 tons of cargo. The Empire shipbound for the East will leave the harbor about the 26th inst.
Tenders are invited for the plant to be open-air exhibitions before the opening. The notice notes the site and date of exhibition preparation and requests bids from interested parties.
Gordon Men's Club members met on Wednesday to discuss the Potts memorial drive and related committee actions. Additional notes indicate fund totals totaling 600 to 680 dollars were reported or collected during the event.
A brief notice reports an unusual event at Bela Joe’s venue titled The Rapid Brot 5 A Bela Joe’s Bane. Readters note a disturbance affecting patrons and staff with no injuries recorded. Authorities investigated and cleared the scene.
Police investigating a theft at a Warwick hotel where a cash register disappeared months ago. The item remains missing as officers review clues and hotel security records.
BRISBANE Cairns Innisfail stop on his Northern tour noted by a reporter. A woman named Mrs Rue Singh died at Liverpool Crescent from heat related causes in Queensland days after the visit.
Gray showed poor form with few bright moments yesterday at a London meeting. Notable figures included Sisventon with two high scores and De Shuldon's Kew Dutovery noted among the cold, while a small crowd attended the event.
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