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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Jul 23, 1917
Page
3
A jumble of brief events including soldiers GIll and Lyons wounded travelers Balchin Dyer Saunders and McDonald arriving from Sydney Roma Mount Garnet and Innisfail appear in scattered notices. Many names and places are partially legible with incomplete sentences and garbled phrases.
The readable text hints at a belief that birds and other animals were sacred, with flies held in superstitious awe. A quoted line mentions a tale from ancient times and a note about Australians remembering events after Egypt, though much of the passage is unclear.
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