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New machine claim invites inspection by Armstrong Ledlie Stillman at LAKE TM STREET CAIRNS. It promises higher horse clipping capacity per day than any rival model on the market.
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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Jul 16, 1918
Page
4
New machine claim invites inspection by Armstrong Ledlie Stillman at LAKE TM STREET CAIRNS. It promises higher horse clipping capacity per day than any rival model on the market.
Final nominations list for the club meeting on 26th and 27th instant covering trials, handicap races, novices, and events across divisions with entrants including Yarrigh late Marko Briscoe Royal Abundance Limit Austin's Gift Nipler Narooa Phaniur Runaway Eurads and others across Flying Division Jockey Club and Mulgrave Handicap events.
Weights declared for the VA T C meeting set for August 3 and 19 in Melbourne. List includes Australian Hurdle and Australian Steeplechase weights with numerous horses and assigned times and odds across both races.
The note lists major Australian horse events including the Australian Steeplechase and feature cups. It mentions Epsom and Metropolitan Derbies, Caulfield and Melbourne Cups, and August 10 as a reference date.
Brisbane racing page lists acceptances for Kedron Five Hundred over five furlongs to be run Saturday. Notable entries include Flying Leaf Rapio4 Elzinor and Leigh, with times and weights such as 9.13 and 38 for ancemary, Fenzo Phyllis L.9.7, Moore's Lock on Komara 9.3, Atta Boy Uncle Sam, and others like Cambrook Footlady Abex Bo Mulpharr and My Own Serbian.
Sydney reports Tarara Jack winning the Australian hurdle race after a tense finish. Details of the Australian St base and other contenders are not fully clear in the surviving text.
The Second Division Handicap at Park on July 6 prompted a stewards inquiry. They recommended canceling Rider Buckle's license, but today the committee refused to adopt the stewards' recommendation.
The Cairns bowling team toured Townsville arriving Thursday to reception at Lowth's Hotel. They played Mackay teams, enjoyed a theatre party and smoke concert, with visitors praising Townsville hospitality and noting only two rinks traveled.
Thirteen members joined the CAC on a Sunday voyage to Second Beach. After a pleasant sail several piles were felled by the Pop who boiled tea for the crew. Sandy proved the judge's favorite in a close Grub Stakes run with Doodle and Guts. Four more piles were cut from a height of ten feet, all members took turns on a springboard, photos were taken of the toilets, and a joke cook announced no prize for the biggest cater as the group lined up for a final photograph.
A seaside gathering featured 100 yards handicap races won by E McGhie and Tiny Bennett in fast times. Jacky won a juniors race, and Tiny excelling in wheelbarrow and long jump events. Prizes ranged from ship models to a dash of cash, with the Rear Commodore presiding over prize distribution amid safety notes and a brief injury scare.
A Palace Theatre program presents So Long Letty a comic operetta by Mr D B O Connor and star cast including Violet Collinson Idatt. The production opens tonight with tickets at H H Pittard's Music Depot. Also Cairns Pictures screens The Enemy Within a seven act Australian thriller starring Snowy Baker Jack Airlie and Reg Baker with daring feats and stunts. Milestones at the Austral a nine reel feature from Julius Knight join the lineup tomorrow.
Austral Pictures promotes The Butterfly Girl as a five part serial with fascinating story and striking photography. The program also features the drama Broadcloth and Buckskin and a capital second. Prices prevail and watch for particulars on next week’s new serial.
An analysis of the swift growth of scientific knowledge since the early nineteenth century, noting shifts in belief about chemical elements and the rise of new problems such as the hypothetical foundation of the universe and the differentiation of forms. The piece references Faraday and Duncan on ether and radium, and critiques skepticism toward ether’s existence.
The article argues sun radiations are waves not particles, invoking the ether as space’s medium. It discusses enormous energy within space ether, contrasts wave and particle theories, and questions direct demonstration of ether while citing embryology and imagination as analogies for formative power. It previews a follow up on how forms differentiate.
A promotion-style notice urges men to guard kidney health against pain and stiffness. It claims kidneys overtaxed by daily waste and uric acid buildup, offering Dr Sheldon’s Pills as a remedy to restore balance and vitality. Cost listed as 6 and 2/6, available at chemists.
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