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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Jan 22, 1915
Page
2
Store offers Black Cotton Sam Today, Black Lisle Sox, to-day sale items include Black Cashmere Sox, Newa Tear Shirts to-day 4/11, White Teams Shirts 7/11, Neglee Stirwe to-day 2/11 and 3/11. OCotten Tweed Trousers to-day 4/1. Job Line White Gauze Singlets usually 1/ but now 2/6. All Wool Singlets made in Australia today 2/11. Mer's Lousge Dats to-day 4/5 with coat pure Heise to-day 3/11.
A fragment from a vintage catalog shows leather and canvas boots with screw soles and lace designs. Items include Cossacks and Derby style shoes for men and women with various sizes and prices like 11 Kap Teather Cossacks and 18/6 for a Gadies shoe, indicating early 20th century shop inventory.
Fragmentary listing shows fabric types and measurements with repeated misprints. Items include White Linen Duck and White Dress Linens alongside various brown linens and poplin, with inconsistent fractions and garbled phrases.
A dated rundown showcases Ladign Fine Bustin oral e Lie ate anes Seatpe Chg Voile Latin items. Children’s Linen Rompers in Saxe Navy Grey priced 2/8 and trims for garments. Paris and White Sleeve Trimming priced 1 yard. Leather hand bags in black priced 1/9 with sailor shape crepe items also noted.
A fragmented report lists January events and dates including a January 12 notice with vague references to a period labeled Jam and Apoges. No clear names, places, or organizations are readable in the text.
The Cairns district supports the patriotic fund during the war call up. Subscriptions reach 350 pounds with £1949 disbursed. The fund aims to prevent poverty by ensuring eligible families receive their just allowance without charity. Local committee members are prominent townsmen and rely on personal knowledge of applicants to distribute funds.
The readable text hints at a British era debate over land forces and national adequacy. It references concerns about hysteria in argument and the need for more robust provision for Great Britain’s land defenses, with mentions of people and requirements still unclear.
At the Cairns Police Court on Thursday before P.M. Duncan Weir three offenders were fined for drunkenness with penalties totalling 15 or 10 hours. Patrick Breansa was fined £1 or seven days for misconduct. Children’s ready-to-wears.
A new gas buoy reached Bris bane on Thursday and will be positioned near the harbour entrance under Harbour Master Captain Middleton. A separate note emphasizes that legal documents must use registered birth names, with changes possible via the Chief Registrar, while unrelated promotional text advertises massage instruments and beauty products.
To day ushers in a major reduction event as Kelly's WG cuts prices across small departments for three weeks. Every item is reduced for cash to clear space for new season goods arriving soon. The advertisement promises substantial bargains and urges shoppers to visit Melly's today.
A Teminder notes a Chamber of Commerce meeting with members to discuss local business revival. References to Lebirds General Store offering Bedrock Prices and an Agency Repel Insurance representative appear amid health treandaiente and a Cairne condemnation. Large quantities of fish are destroyed in a recent incident.
Cairns Ambulance officer reports majority of coopers strike unresolved while Queensland branch notes 105 attendees. Cairns District Hospital committee met with President Seerquesy. members present including Hannan and Wilson. Monthly accounts £3468 16s 2d paid, balance £1556 6s 0d. Outdoor patients 83. deaths five. admissions 28 males 14 females. treated 61 males 16 females. discharges 5 males 13 females. Damage claim discussed. police to investigate. Special meeting adopted annual report and financial statement.
Mr L Simmage of Irvinebank is urged to disperse wines and spirits at the Court House and mediation events are arranged. A new mould-board plow line is advertised as superior for trashy ground with steel blades, long beam, three horse bridle and removable heel, inviting farmers to inspect the plows and judge their quality.
A vivid Cairns Herald page notes a busy program with the Austral cinema and a Levante and Beth vaudeville show. It highlights prize photos including the Cairns Amateur tour chair Wallseat Hambledon and an Ifciala Race winner. Other images cover Port Douglas fore shore, Falls at Stomy Creek, cane cutting at Hambledon and Mooliba camps, Yunga barra Rifle Club, and Mossman Jew.
The Palace Theatre programme last night drew a large and appreciative audience as the fine theatre offering continued to entertain patrons with its varied performances.
Sydney reports an extraordinary dust fog with murky yellow tint obscuring daylight for a quarter hour in parts of New South Wales. Upper air dust from winter storms in the Riverina caused strange color effects on harbor waters and widespread tremors of darkness in some towns. winds lightened by afternoon, with several centers noting similar events and brief blackouts.
A fragmentary report notes weather conditions affecting bowls at the West End Games event. The committee meeting discussed rounds and delays as participants continued with competitions under unsettled conditions.
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