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Newspaper

Cairns Post

Location

Cairns, Queensland, Australia

Date

Jul 15, 1918

Page

3

Various travelers noted in Cairns Townsville region and nursing advert

The item lists numerous travelers and arrivals such as Mr. Seo McKenzie Mrs. D Kyle Dr. Perkins Mr. G R Mayers Mr Shand and Dr Ellerton from Townsville and Cairns plus notes on local movements. An advertisement promotes NUJOL for nursing mothers highlighting its safety and use by Standard Oil Company with claims of lubrication and non drug content.

Standard Oil Company Est Omen USA

The Song of the Knife ballad decrying cane workers wage woes

A lurid Victorian style poem attacks sugar cane cutters in Queensland accusing the industry of conspiracies to keep prices high. The piece portrays brutal working conditions and wages of a shilling to a crust of bread, urging Southern readers to view sugar as dear and life as cheap. It frames cane cutters as slave labor, bound to toil from dawn to night, and questions regional wages and living standards.

Queensland

Morning groans signal aged kidney woes in all day life

A disjointed ad fragment stresses morning back pain and stiffness from kidney trouble. It links chronic discomfort to general infirmity, urging readers to seek health remedies priced at 0/6 and 2/6 at local chemists.

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