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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Jan 19, 1916
Page
4
A sensational sales pitch touts Thermol white paste as a miracle for aging skin. It claims to erase liver spots patches and dull color and make a 50 year old look 40 or younger with a new complexion lasting weeks or years. The copy targets women ages 30 to 55 and markets a rapid, dramatic transformation.
A travel diary outlines routes from Thursday Island to the Cape York mainland across rivers and coastal stations. It notes milestones such as McDonnell Telegraph Office and Cape York E.T. station, profiles Wade Robinson’s public service, and mentions mining camps at Bowden Wolfram Camp and Temple Bay with prospects, reefs, and supply routes. It records distances, towns, and commodities like stores, sugar, and tobacco amid a harsh frontier landscape.
An advertisement touts Cramberlain’s Colic and Dierrhora Remedy as a reliable effective medicine. It claims timely relief prevents serious consequences and urges households to keep the product on hand for digestive ailments.
The article reports that about fifty of sixty pioneer squatters miners and sandal-wood workers along the line are deprived of their mails by the Labor Government. Telegraph officials still receive mails and wires while outside developers gain a 2 percent daily allowance for recent work. Pivto, a Rockhampton Aboriginal discoverer of Plutovilles and the New Find, is dead in Coen during a supply trip. Plutoville has yielded over £20,000 in gold with expected gains from the new find.
Pekin desk reports that German trade in China remains despite shipping losses. German-owned goods flow to America via Chinese firms on various national vessels. Gold shipments by Deutsch Asiatische Bank and Boxer indemnity funds underwrite German influence. Krupp dealings and other German creditors total millions. British banks urged to counter German finance to protect China policy.
European agency advertises wholesale indents promptly executed at lowest cash prices for British and Continental goods. William Wilson and Sons listed among suppliers in the 1sa4 era.
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