11 May 1917
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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
May 11, 1917
Page
1
The document lists numerous allotments and properties for sale near Cairns including Draper Street and Victoria Street parcels. It details land areas from fractions to several acres, street frontages, and notes dwellings and facilities on several lots with terms such as cash deposits and weekly payments. It mentions associated firms and agents and references development around Bar and Mareeba districts.
Assorted notes show Headrick Limited operating as sole agents for Australian Mest Co and nitrolom Spence Street Cairns. Addressed via Box 116 and telephone, with Brisbane and Cairns locations noted.
Fragmentary notice mentions SASHAD DOOR FACTORY and GF Sexith Proprietee SASHTA DOGS PERCH Lions with unclear context and no readable dates or actions.
Dealers report fresh shipments arriving in range quantities. Details on models and quantities are forthcoming as inventory teams process the load for display and sale.
In Brisbane the Police Court heard John Alfred Beal formerly in the Lands Department accused of stealing a substantial sum from public funds between May 1900 and July 31 1913. Detective witnesses tied him to the accounts branch where he served as an accountant from July 18 1917 until suspension. Beal allegedly admitted taking some money though claimed the amount was exaggerated. The Crown pressed for fullness of detail as the case proceeded.
In Adelaide a gardener named William Nicholas Hann aged 57 was killed by his son Alexander Robert Hann after an alleged quarrel at home following a day at the Morphettville races. The son, intoxicated, fired a pistol wounding his father in the head. Hann died shortly after. The incident followed several days of odd behavior by the son prior to the fatal act.
The readable words reference Queensland photographers and an invitation, but the fragment is too incomplete to identify a person, event, or concrete outcome. It mentions funded photographs and dates without specific names or locations.
Readable fragments list various names and items including dates like 7.11 7.12 7.13 and events such as Tango Dance and Kobe star. Text appears as garbled OCR with numerous misspellings and unclear context.
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