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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Jan 10, 1921
Page
1
A jumble of scattered job notices and want ads appears in a torn fragment of a historical page. Names like Cairns Post and Swain Street surface among garbled phrases and partial addresses, with scattered references to wages, duties, and locations suggesting a chaotic classifieds section.
A mix of cinema pages and real estate adverts from Cairns lists films including The Dinner Hour and A First National Picture, with mounting property sales. Auctions for farms, building sites, and riverfront land appear, highlighted by Woodward and Calder and Rut. McManus advertised as real property salesman.
Reminied notice for horse racing events and nominations in Townsville area. Details include close to morrow sessions, Friday and Saturday races, prize money, divisions, and conditions. Nominations to be received at the Council Chambers George Towns by February 7.
Auctioneer notice invites bids on unimproved allotments and iron works at various street frontages and blocks. Tenders to remove battery components and winding engine from Goldfield to Minnie Max mine, distance 22 miles, addressed to Royal Hotel Mareeba and J J Robinson for details.
Fragmentary auction notice from a Brooklyn area source seeks buyers for well bred horses. It mentions real property salesmen, forwarding commission, and a season standing amid scattered garbled phrases. The readable items indicate an orderly sale by a noted broker with horse stock details limited by damaged text.
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