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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Jul 30, 1915
Page
2
Readable bits describe a scattered, unclear passage about remedies and measures. Names, dates, and concrete facts are absent, leaving a fragmentary sense of experimental discussion and generic guidance without identifiable people or events.
A naval recruitment notice from Cairns invites applicants for overseas active service training. Dale Morrison, District Naval Officer, emphasizes naval instruction and availability of further details through the agency.
Notice is given that the Half-Yearly General Meeting at certain premises will be held on Tuesday August 1 at 6 o'clock. The meeting is to receive and adopt the directors report and accounts, elect directors and auditors, and transact any other business.
The Howard Cycle Company announces a range of bicycles and related gear including high grade cycles and accessories, highlighting new models and promotional pricing. The note emphasizes quality, warranties, and availability across its product line.
Thrift is urged as a national virtue with a focus on wiser spending. The message presses readers to spend less yet obtain more value, noting a rising spirit of thrift among many merchants.
Ad lists deep sale prices on colored freeh fabrics and dress materials. Items include Tasco and Royal-Keusky yardages with sale prices from 1/9 to 3/0, covering taffeta voile, serge, cashmere, Sicilian fabrics, crepe, muslin, and white cotton wool.
The page lists numerous sale prices for ladies and children's wear items including colored velvet sailors, chip straw shapes, ready to wear College Tiste, cream crinkled contrasts, and white muslin garments. Prices range from a few pence to several shillings, with many items discounted from standard tags.
Mr and Mrs Johnstone of Mount Molloy express sincere thanks for wreaths cards letters and expressions of sympathy in their recent sad bereavement.
Copper price quoted to £18 7s per ton with wartime adjustments. Tin and silver show varied figures amid market fluctuations.
A fragmented late 19th or early 20th century note mentions correspondence from Elm Cairns and soap brands. The text hints at beautifying preparations and a face cream product linked to a soap promotion, with odd punctuation and garbled names.
The escodent programme renest to might for the last time and The Breesed Miracle leads the slate. Loring company presents Grama by the Lothin firm hailed as a top success with dazzling production. Mary Pirford, a famed actress, is highlighted in a world of waph. The Australian Weekly notes these cartoons could draw significant viewership.
At the Atherton Cooperative Butter and Bacon Co Ltd annual meeting held in Atherton on Thursday Mercere. W Murnane and W Abbott and A Waller were elected to fill an extraordinary vacancy caused by a director's resignation who has left for the front. Figures not obtainable on Thursday evening. will be published in a day or two.
To the tired mother in endeavouring to give relief to her baby a remedy is proposed though the text is fragmentary and unclear about specifics, leaving the main claim and product unnamed and uncertain.
Tonight marks the final chance to see the current capital programme at AUSTRAL PICTURES. Lincoln-Cass presents Transported with other dramas including Yortume’s Favourite and Heed of Mystery, plus a showing of A Long Way to Tipperary and more films.
At a Thursday council meeting the discussion wandered with little nautical focus. Mr Webb testified that Captain costs lamifing at this time 17th and 10e, while the shore fort erme years endured.
The Chamber of Commerce held its usual monthly meeting at Trom today. RK Storey will auction the blacksmith's business of HR Holden on Spence Street. Mr A M Waddell has opened new grocery stacks, cash trade. Agent for Royal Insurance Co.
The lucky draw on Thursday morning awarded the Cairne Patriotte Fund donation to Master E. Stratton with ticket Lia. Local officials note the Moonba-Ionisfail hint prompts Cairns Chamber of Commerce to discuss the matter in today’s meeting as Captain V Forrester and Mr J F Rams Bothan tour Queensland ports. They traveled via Kuranda to Cooktown then aboard the John Douglas heading north.
A reader questions when the abovementioned institution will materialize and asks if leaders will act before the war ends. The notice mentions a St Monica’s ball set for Wednesday August 14 with a dance the following night to fund interest on debts, selling tickets at 7/6 double 5/ single plus extra lady 2/8, with proceeds supporting the harbour debt interest.
A Cairns wedding linked to the theatre world as Jace Fineworth of the Palace Theatre and Mies A French wed on Thursday. Best man Wailann and croomeman Air Marshall Palmer helped the ceremony with stage aliases and theatrical style. Afterward a toast at the Palace Hotel with C Morris, Toast, and celebrants sent off with rice and confetti as The Wedding March played by the theatre orchestra.
A Palace Theatre notice describes a wartime themed film presentation featuring a large ensemble cast and a discussion of Napoleon and Prussianism. The screening, arranged by Marshall Pal F, emphasizes civilization’s evolution and the call to resist tyranny as nations contend for peace and freedom.
Dent ust P F Meredith will attend his surgery daily for one month. Telephone 8. Tonight the Cairns Juisens’ Bare will render a programme of music at the corner of Spence and Sachs St under Bandmaster Hoyper.
Atherton correspondent reports the Art Union organized by Mira WG Menderson yielded a handsome sum of 115 10 for the Purcell family, aiding their fall presenter. The event drew community support and noted Belgian involvement.
An advertisement notes the launch Victor will make two trips to aid the wounded soldiers fund. Departures from the wharf are at 16.80 a.m. and 3 p.m. The boat will circle Admiralty Island. Pare W-.
A memorial service will be held Sunday evening at 7 50 p m at the Presbyterian Church for the Pullen Soldiers. Mrs Craig and Mr L Kelly will be soloists, the Choir will sing Crossing the Bar and What are these that are arrayed in white Rushes. Revs J Kirke and S M Mitchell will preach. A retiring collection goes to the Returned Soldiers Fund.
Weekend sale items include Gent's tweed trousers marked down from 5/11 to 4/11 and 6/6 to 5/1, gent's tennis shirts to 1/6, Barvard shirts to 26, Galetes shirts at 174, felt hats 4/11 to 4/-, merino half hose 5 for 1/3, black cotton half hose 3 for 13, felt data 4/11 to 1/L, cosy slippers 6/8 to 4/6, Latice usually Lif to 12/8, tummee and boy's boots to 8/8, tannt black kid Romeos 12/6 to 7/8, Chrome Cossacks 11/6 to 10/6. Sale runs until 2 p.m. Trail and Winestons at the Hith Class Mercers and Batmen in Ab bottatrest on Ab bottatrest.
Fragmentary verse evokes ongoing struggle and concern as life endures endless conflicts and the consequences of past follies surface in muted reflection.
In Brisbane on July 25 the second reading of the Enemy Contracts Annulment Bill passed after Kyen and Macartney spoke on its aim to allow Australian firms to break contracts under German influence fears. The debate covered sugar and coal supplies and rail pricing for northern ports, with further committee work set for Tuesday.
July 3 shipping news notes the vessel Wareema Captain James Grahl sailing from Melbourne via ports with an extensive passenger roster. Read names include Mortecmi Ford Stackhouse Hatcher Watt Fox Clatuon Cranch and many others with several children listed among the travelers.
A fragmented passenger list shows numerous names and crews aboard vessels including Australian Steam Saunders and Autrolligs Steamshige Ltd. The entry references July 24 and various crew members such as Thompson, Jorgensen, Pan, Carrothers, and others.
A garbled sale notice proclaims quick cash transactions with prices cut to the lowest level. It urges shoppers to act fast before valuables are gone, claiming money saving deals will not reappear and warning selection may grow difficult as time passes.
A noisy advertisement touts a Kellys sale with a large batch of bargain clothing and footwear. It promises fresh goods and guaranteed quality with low prices on tennis shoes, boots, caps, handbags, umbrellas, and more, urging shoppers to visit today.
A historic column notes claimed bronchial cough remedies and a noted patent remedy by Woods labeled Pappermian Cure. The item catalogs regional health fads and advertised patent medicines without medical endorsement.
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