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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Mar 16, 1940
Page
2
A fragmented verse oriented piece praising Ireland with archaic phrasing and garbled lines. It references Ireland, song, crown, and a figure named Shane, with unclear subsequent segments and a stray numeric string. The text resembles a poetry fragment from a historical page with corrupted OCR.
The Bairns Circle and Ram Circle send birthday wishes to many names nicknamed Bird Boy Billy, Creek Fairy, Dewy Tonlight, Borge, Lawace and more. They share mottos about simple duty harmony and not quarrelling, wishing happy returns of the day in a dated, ceremonial tone.
A garbled OCR style passage lists scattered phrases about ethics memory and sensational cues. It rambles through references to identity virtue and civil behavior, interspersed with disjoint sentences and stray proper nouns, lacking a clear news event or reporting angle.
Fragmentary OCR lists names and terms such as Heliment Chandler's and Agent Gr Holee, mentioning planters, camp ers, and plows and a requirement that items be verified before market placement. The garbled text references sales, property, and purchaser verification in a disrupted historical notice.
The passage presents a fragmented dialogue heavy with nonsensical phrases about dancing, caution on a floor, and a social scene. It references a man named Poe, a dancing partner, and unnamed participants, conveying a mood of tentative bravado and public performance. The text reads as a disrupted dramatic or literary fragment with dreamlike and incoherent exchanges.
March notes report a fair crowd at a children's concert in Liberty Theatre despite rain, with proceeds partly donated to Millaa Ambulance. McKenzie led two success events with Sunshine Kids visiting Kieliberg’s, and several local residents are noted for travel and visits.
A quirky advice piece on using perfume in small packets and sachets to keep clothes, linens, and handkerchiefs smelling pleasant. It suggests scenting textiles with sachets, blocks of fragrance, or crystals, and even repurposing empty bottles for continual aroma in the wardrobe and bedding.
A sermon emphasizes that the Lord has comforted His people Isaiah notes a special, elected fold. Believers endure double tribulation from birth and new life, yet divine mercy, grace, and access to the mercy seat sustain them. The Bible provides fountains of relief, prayer, and the Spirit’s guidance in sorrow, offering reassurance of pardon and adoption.
The fragmentary text mixes remarks on running records boat life fur coats and biblical references with scattered questions about timing hats coats and places, ending with a note that answers are on the last page.
London show girl Miss Dana, once engaged to a Hitler guard, recalls meeting Adolf Hitler in a dressing room. She describes his eyes and charm, notes security precautions, and says the engagement ended amid the looming war and personal letters.
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