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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Nov 11, 1920
Page
2
Melbourne reports massive disruptions across the Commonwealth with 1919 record disputes. NSW dominates unrest, coal and mining sectors suffer most, 267 disputes originate there, wages and idle days soar as employers resist wage demands.
Townsville reports mail bags on a Friday train from Cloncurry to the coast were tampered with. Registered mail was targeted and a small sum was stolen while several cheques remained untouched. The robbery is believed to have occurred near Hughenden where the bag was left overnight in an unlocked wagon.
Kent Roberts returns to Brisbane in the Avro after flying 21 000 miles since leaving Sydney on June 1 last and 15 000 miles since Brisbane departure on August 9. The machine has toured Southern Central and Western regions, been displayed daily, with a minor scare when forced to land on a bed track near Th. The craft received public inspection on arrival.
Brisbane dispatch reports Jestice McCaw contesting a building trades award under the building trades union plan. The case involves the substitution of a contractor in various districts and an application filed by the union with His Honor presiding.
Brisbane justice McCawley to hear argument on whether court has jurisdiction to issue an award related to teachers in religiously controlled schools. The fragment also includes unrelated health advice and garbled text about digestion and diet.
The Pacific Cable Board in London reports a reserve renewal fund increase of £353,000 and a surplus of £ gh Ad2. Cables carried nine million words with wartime rates, while receipts reached £42,048.
Governor Stephens of California asserts the anti Japanese law will stand and that Japan has done nothing to warrant further protests. He notes England and Australia have similar laws and that action will continue.
Paris debates a deanite decision to bury a Pot at the Arc de Triomphe prompting socialist uproar and suspension of sittings. Socialists denounce the act as arrogant militarism while the Premier defends it as commemorating the Republic jubilee and France’s regeneration. A feature was a procession bearing 16,000 tors.
Paris dispatch says Allied reparations conference will hear Germany’s economic and political state and judge Upper Silesia’s fate. Indications point to a February start. The conference’s modification of demands hinges on the plebiscite results.
A dated advisory argues against shampoo soaps with high alkali and perfumes, praising plain coconut oil soap as safe and effective. It claims coconut oil soap yields rich lather, cleans from roots to ends, leaves hair soft and frizz free, and reduces dandruff without slippery residue.
Chemists in Cairns rush Frogol Ice as a new remedy said to loosen and lift painful corns. A few drops supposedly relieve soreness instantly, shrinking the corn and allowing it to lift away. Reported claims include preventing lockjaw and poisoning, a sensational early promise from an eminent authority in chemistry.
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