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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Oct 04, 1928
Page
6
Proceedings detail disputes over trenching, pier and bend work, and unit prices for stone versus concrete. Witness McNamara testifies on foreman duties, timing, and contractor Kennedy’s adjustments to bends and extra work, with fluctuating cost estimates and measurements.
Mt Molloy held a Saturday event at Julatten to aid the hall fund. A large crowd enjoyed a banquet, races, novelty events, dancing, and social visits. Contests featured potato races, height guessing, pole throwing, and a dress in ladies clothes race won by Petersen’s Goanna.
Berlin October reports Frans Daiadel the famous athlete will start from Hindenberg and sprint through Europe and Asia to Australia, then to San Francisco and New York before sailing to Holland arriving in Germany October 1929 in a global road race plan.
Adelaide reports a grasshopper plague delaying a special train from Quorn to Hawker by four hours, rails made slippery by insects, trucks left on the line, and engine sent back to recover them. Residents fight to protect gardens and lawns as grain and vegetation suffer from hopper activity.
An advertisement claims Alberta Rogers improved from thin and weak to healthy in six weeks using Liver Compound and Liver Coupee Tablets. It promises money back if the treatment does not help.
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