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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Jan 07, 1916
Page
4
A jumble of parcels shows Cairns area allotments and improvements with sections and frontages. Parcel prices range from 40 to 6000 pounds with mentions of roads, water passes, and cottage sites. Includes references to Gardenvale Babinda Mile Siding and local land subsections.
The report notes a January 6 fire causing about 5000 in damages across Collimgwond and nearby areas. Fire crews battled the blaze for several hours as flames spread, with McLaughE and Flim' boots among the referenced items. Country emissions from all sides were involved.
S76 Set ivisin three of Allotment five section E87 Sheridan Street Aves two reed porches Fremont with are pickets once two sides.
The Towers Jockey Club plans a February 23 and 26 meeting with a £400 prize fund. The notice lists the event dates and the organizer.
Mat Murphy of Queensland beat Ali Bromwigh of New Zealand at the Stadium, towel raised from Bromwigh in the fifth round. Event details note Melbourne fighter Jamuszy 5 and a long list of attendees and passengers on the accompanying voyage.
Depart messages list Captain Mowrilyan and Captain Sams O Gowrie with crews and passengers aboard steamships Lad and Towrs Itla. January 5 dates reference Towrsville passage to Amtra, with numerous names including Gallogby Nurse Westbury Meeryshaw Casey Eyre and others.
Incomplete notes discuss a one year old child described as small for age and troubled by symptoms likened to restlessness. Mentions Chamberlain's remedy and cautious care, with vague guidance on feeding and soothing the infant.
A Westminster Gazette account describes two hundred British women joining Serbian hospital units along the northwest frontier near Serbia’s invasion. They battle typhus fever and measles while tending wounded, with Drs Soltan Inglis Hutchinson Fraser and others leading efforts to supply care, water, and X ray services amid harsh conditions and heroic sacrifice.
A fragment describes gifts from four bake of goods sent from Australia Hong Kong New Zealand Canada and India. An Indian woman in strict purdah hears of the work and wishes to help, contrasting distant colonial life with her occluded peasant locale alongside British women at work amid Himalayan hills scarred by invasion.
The readable fragments indicate a local event connected to the Broomtle River and a prime moment, with unclear details but suggesting a notable fall or incident and an upcoming prim event. Further context remains unreadable.
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