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Newspaper

Cairns Post

Location

Cairns, Queensland, Australia

Date

Jan 06, 1940

Page

4

Mt Garnet and District Notes Chronicle New Year Events

Mt Garnet district reports heavy rainfall totals for 1998 and ongoing water and grain abundance. New Year festivities at Mt Garnet featured speeches, music, and a debate between Benedicts and bachelors, with a large turnout after a local concert. Notable incidents include a captured white mouse, hospital admissions, car accident injuries, and several residents traveling to Brisbane, Sydney, and south. District mining activity boosted monthly revenues with public disbursements and treasurer remittances noted.

MT. Garnet Janusry Mt Garnet Oller Petete Picc

Molloy and District Notes Reflect Rain, Mining Slow

Molloy district reports heavy rain early season with a dry December, limited mining activity over Christmas. Copper and wolfram prospects cited near Molloy mine and Mt Carbine, with alluvial miners preparing for the wet season. Roads and river crossings noted as needing repair, social gatherings mark year’s start as residents travel between Molloy, Mareeba, and Cairns.

Memars Roasey Bovey Molloy Mt. Corbina

Answers To What Do You Think Card

Fragmentary text appears as a garbled list of phrases and unclear references. The readable items include mentions of fractions, grams, triples, oboe, water divining, and a line that seems to read ST maile. The overall meaning is obscure and lacks a coherent event or person.

Through a Four-Paned Window from Simple Folk

Excerpt from Seam O’Fea la in Simple Folk depicting a rural life scene with spring birds, autumn evenings, and a farmer’s solitary joy. The narrator recalls starlings, yellowhammer music, cuckoo calls, and a tall hedge lined lane near Lim erick, noting the farmer’s unique land and market searches.

Tees Linden Limerick

Inherited Traits and World Wide Data on Heredity

The Bureau of Human Heredity at Gower Street collects global data on inherited traits. Chairman Professor R Ruggles Gates says the clearing house gathers pedigrees and twin studies from America to South America, noting identical twins share constitution, color, features, and intellect. Some data show twins born more in poorer populations, highlighting class differences in heredity studies.

Bureau of Human Heredity Gower Street R. Ruggles Gates Reynolds America Europe China Japan India Canada South America

Frightfulness German Crime of Heredity in Health Debate

A fragmentary historical item discusses heredity’s role in health and rheumatism, noting pedigree research and cross national studies. It cites Scottish families with lifelong limb anomalies, Dutch sayings on heredity, and Amsterdam telegraph observations about medical knowledge and wartime wounds.

Amsterdam Grant England Ross

Deep Purple and a Belgian Village Massacre Echoes

A Sydney Morning Herald note recalls the Tamines massacre of August 1914 by German forces. The village near Namur suffered destruction, 204 houses burned, and over 400 men and murdered relatives buried amid traces of wartime atrocity. The scene remains a stark memory with a hedge and memorial on the site.

Tamines J. O'Gary Ydney Morning Herald Tamia Hebani Sambie Uhaderasnd Namur Germes Lambeth Joan Mon Belgium

Farmers Clear Basilink Range to Fight Beetle

In Innisfail on January 5, farmers in the Mowrilyan area undertook a local scheme to combat the cape beetle by clearing brush from Boo gaa to Balla, exposing soil and root zones to deter grubs. Opinions differ, but many support the effort. president GF Hudson notes some critics doubt the method yet reports show reduced damage and increased cane yields near the Basilisk Range.

Basilink Range Mowrilyan Boogaa Balla Tunistan Basilisk Busiijsk

Haunting Melody Tops Year with Wartime Favorites

Winter brought Chestnut Tree and Beer Bar rel Polka to shops as Daisy and Sir, followed by Deep Purple gaining popularity by August. The wartime mood shaped song choices with Hang Out Our W's Siegfried Line and Drummer Boy among top tunes, as England themes remained enduring.

England

Losses Reported in Williamacn Theatre Collapse

Fragmentary notice reports large losses linked to the Serene group and the Williamacn theatre affair. It notes totals around £500,000 and mentions J. Theatre’s aging director Ei Tai amid vague financial turmoil and staged developments.

J. Theatren

Mew Theatre Arm Message From Silent Stage

Fragmented OCR text shows a theatre note with unclear lines about a teaser and phrases like I have maintained and I always, suggesting a stage caption or curtain line. The readable portions hint at a performance context but lack concrete names or events.

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