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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Jan 24, 1916
Page
4
A stormy period brought widespread rain across Cairns and coastal towns. Readings show high rainfall in several locations with strong winds and rising watercourses. Observers note heavy downpours and overflowing creeks during the Sunday period.
A long fragment from the Cairns Pictures promotion details a mystery letter split into scraps. The Northern Herald will publish duplicates and stage a contest with sealed envelopes, rewarding readers who reconstruct the letter.
Brisbane January 24 reports describe heavy rain across the Darling Downs with floods in the Princess district. Damaging floods drowned cattle and flooded paddocks, while the Dikey district saw a severe storm last night with the heaviest rainfall in more than two years, reaching up to four inches in a short period.
In a blurred report from Sporting Wating 75 Storet dated January 25, Red Wat allegedly won a game on Saturday night. Details are unclear due to damaged text but reference to Mak and Maki suggests a notable scoring effort or upset.
A garbled obituary like fragment notes a person named D Madamara or similar, referencing a widow and visitors from the country. It hints at a share takeover and the distribution of estate assets but the text is incomplete and unclear.
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