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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Jul 31, 1918
Page
1
A letter from Wooten Hill Gig dated June 12 1004 to herbal practitioner John E TorT praises a cure after years of illness. The writer, once told to die within weeks, thanks the doctor for restoring health enabling work and providing for his wife and family.
A Brisbane columnist muses on the Talgai Skull found near Clifton on the Crarning Downs. He traces its significance from early digs at Neanderthal and Piltdown sites, debating whether it marks a Pleistocene or Pliocene era, and links the skull to broader questions of human evolution and scientific progress.
A long reflection on aboriginal treatment and labor in Queensland with memory of Burdekin, Ayr, Herberton, and Maytown incidents. The piece condemns past violence and calls for state duty to reclaim nomadic hunter gatherers, noting disease in Burketown and a Roosevelt quote about Americans aiding the front.
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