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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Jan 08, 1914
Page
3
A fragment from a 19th century column promotes a miraculous ointment and skin products, touting health cures and household usefulness. The snippet mentions Port Douglas and Atherton, with references to chemists and a dispensing department as well as a public figure visiting. The text reads like an overhyped hoax advertisement aimed at housewives.
Fragmentary OCR shows diverse goods including fancy goods toys fishing tackle and clothing items. Mentions places like Bresia Landing and terms like billiard and bammdressing salook, with garbled language and unclear dates or names.
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