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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
May 17, 1930
Page
2
A brief inspirational note emphasizes that meaningful change requires patient steady effort. It urges readers to invest daily labor, even small steps, rather than attempting grand acts in a single moment. The message highlights individual responsibility and neighborly consideration.
The Batens Circle sends birthday wishes with mottos about kindness and memory. Messages include playful lines like Daine thus and Float ing Bubbles and note loving regards from The Batens Circle to the named celebrants.
A fragmented letter from May at Yungaburra describes holidays in Cairns and the Atherton Tableland, visits to the Rangers Guild, a trip along the Range Road, and greetings to Rosemary. It mentions friends in Milla Milva and notes on pets and school life.
A quirky column of bedtime brainteasers and jokey exchanges appears in this fragment. Readers are teased with wordplay about animals and objects, including a river riddle and misdirected questions.
A jumble of childlike verses and memories describes a girl awaiting calls, family helpers, and a hand sewn patchwork quilt project. It mentions Mary Ann and Vitie Fifty four, a teacher, and a watchwork quilt destined to take years, ending with a plea for sending items.
The Stroprietors of Johnson's Baby Mowder sponsored event closed on April 3 and judging has begun. Judges must review over 20,000 snaps and reach a decision by May 30.
Fragmentary notes recount a festive season with boxing day travel and coastal scenery. The writer describes celebrations, seafood catches, and a disrupted voyage with pilots borrowing gear and burning items. A return home ends the tale as school begins and a wedding scene closes the fragment.
Fragmentary verse contemplates a future earth free of war and strife with a universal harvest and shared language. Amid garbled lines the speaker thanks a higher power for uplifted humanity and patience, while images of deserts, oceans, and steadfast life surface.
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