11 Nov 1914
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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Nov 11, 1914
Page
1
A travel feature highlights the Ideal Skin Cream marketed by Croom Cilemist and Optictar from Abbott Street Cairns. The piece promotes the product as a top choice for skincare during tours and local shopping.
Death notices and astronomical details like Full Moon on November 3 and Last Quarter on November 11. New Moon on November 14. First Quarter on November 11. perigee on November 17. apogee on November 0. Tidal timings listed from dawn to evening.
The Metal Exchange in London fixed official prices on November 19 with copper at £16 to 150/776, electrolytic copper at £52/5 to £52/15, and tin at £19975 to £3915.
December selections for St John’s Fete announced with dates. Mentions of local figures and items on the ballot No 31 appropriation featured. Refers to Germany and wartime sentiment, urging awareness of public events next Saturday.
Tenders for supplying black axle oil and cylinder oil to the Railway Cairns Division will be received up to 1 pm next Tuesday. The notice also advertises an auction of household furniture at Shoralan Street, with full details via Telegraph No I F.C. Box 133.
On Thursday at 1 am Mr K T McManus will auction the booth rights for the forthcoming Cairns Jockey Chub. The event details focus on the sale of exhibition space at the upcoming race meeting.
Mr. E Hallet, representing Allen and Stark drapers and tailors, is visiting Cairns and will remain at the Imperial Hotel sample rooms until 1 pm Saturday. Elis samples feature the latest season's lines with varied fabrics. J Alioom, Cairns Bank manager, is Dumdaberg. Mr Alison plans to depart about a fortnight and will be succeeded by Mr Standish from Insiefsil, formerly an Alderman.
The article notes a return to agriculture in the Casires district with residents planting early, some already starting in small plots. Many plan to begin between February and April next year, reflecting a community focus on farming revival.
A fragmented Cairns page-note sketches Laddie by Tat Paivon Mim and a city drama about Mrs Carter breaking away after a tense night. The piece hints at mid week theatre popularity and a foreign bully theme in Europe.
A Cairns resident reports receiving a troubling letter about a discharged soldier who recently married and allegedly harmed himself. The text includes broken phrases and implausible medical claims about kidney trouble and a company selling tablets.
A fragment from a Queensland Patriotic Fund letter details a £100 donation and a list of acknowledgments. The note mentions recipients and letters of attestation, with references to individuals and branches in the Mowat Garnet district and Atkinson households.
A local report thanks numerous assistants across districts including Eye ands Miss Remilton Mesdlamea Mc Manes Wriede Hodlynch and many others. It also acknowledges the Queensland National Bank reimager and accountant and discusses drought hardy grass from the Sudan with broad notes on Argentina the United States and Germany and rabies rhetoric.
Polling crowd greets opening night at the Palace Theatre for the Seyfler Twins premiering their acts and the new vender Me turn as audience roars. A program of pictures and dramas including Alma SB Sydney and Alone with the Devil is promised, with the Belair Journal Pavilion and a ravine scenic, vaudeville appeal, expected to draw big business in North Queensland.
Melbourne dispatch reports slim chances of rescue as the burning Norfolk liner remains perilous. Night scene shows five holds alight, with decks and sides blistered by heat and the vessel bumping heavily as daylight arrives.
A revisable note states that after using Chamberlain's Tablets and a poor stock of medicines, relief was reportedly found from chronic illness by Mr. W. G. Miller and others in Bradfield New South Wales.
Reuters dispatches describe German recruits as poorly trained and willing to die, their offensives fading in vigor as Allies hold Lille and push toward strategic towns. Antwerp’s western forts are being mined and entrenched, with trenches five miles from the Dutch frontier and coastlines prepared to block Allied advances. Masterdam notes bitter sentiment in Britain over the delaying stalemate as war plans unfold.
Paris dispatch reports the German forces offensive at Dixmude and Ypres repulsed in places while they push forward at many points between Dixmude and Lys. Progress is slow due to enemy prepared defenses and fog. Our troops on the Aisne line misintentioned. German attacks at St Marie described as found.
Report from London notes Lord Kitchener praising recruits as vital to the war. Acknowledges overseas forces as a vanguard and calls for greater effort to crush the enemy. Mentions large numbers in Britain awaiting training.
Fragmentary note indicates Corman papers discuss a refusal to fight the British. It mentions a rapid shift in German and Austrian forces and a perceived victory or driving action toward Chornal and Tri Avs with references to Sovee tanta.
The Lord Mayor's Show in London featured an extended military display with Canadian and New Zealand contingents. Crowds packed the route as King Edward’s cortege led the procession amid wartime air and sea news.
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