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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Oct 09, 1942
Page
3
Ti Atherton Tabietena of the Maize Board announces a theater event, noting a deadline and venue details. The notice specifies Saturday October 10 at 2:30 pm as the scheduled time for the presentation.
A censored collage of names and scenes from a vintage theatre program highlights Tyrone Power Betty Grable and other stars in a Beltan era revue. The piece promises love laughter and heroism with excerpts suggesting stage humor romance and wartime sentiment across a mixed entertainment lineup.
Fragmented text hints at a canine scene and a literary reflection. A man recalls a hound dog near a pond and a church setting, with fragments suggesting a distant, introspective mood and references to literary lines about sound, feeling, and separation.
A jumble of kitchen tips for asparagus boats using shortcrust pastry and white sauce, plus stray lines about a national dance and a boating mishap. The text mixes recipes, a possible discussion of tunes, and a steer turning error, with many garbled phrases and unclear context.
A fragmented wartime drama follows an ATS singer known as Voiceless who faces a forced transfer and ends up at St Dunstan's Hospital. Friends and staff support her through a gradual decline in career prospects after the news of a transfer and closure of the Omoe venue.
Dr Thelin, in Geneva, urged worldwide aid for war children through Save the Children Union and allied groups. He cited the 1924 Declaration of Geneva and urged governments to fund relief, training, shelter, and future livelihood, stressing moral standards and resilience amid destruction.
Town and Country column lists residents and visitors including Mrs Bra and W Cairns at Swan at Rest Gordonvale, nurses from Canberra, staff farewells for Mr Neeson leaving Eumundi, Union Jack Club events, and thanks to donors. Includes references to hotel stays, travel to Mackayhampton, and numerous local workers and duty rosters for the week.
Amid wartime production, Britain’s pen nib makers join tanks and aircraft supply. Nibs, once plentiful, are reduced as nibs go to munition works and government departments. Factories under one roof churn pen components for Royal Ordnance and other agencies, with precise steps and materials essential to the war, even as shortages ripple through banks, schools, and mapping bodies.
A fragmentary Roll of Honour entry notes Corporal J Die Ton and Private A Elbe Bonwart died while serving in the New Guinea area and at Sant Bay respectively. The text mentions a Mr Mix Spowarr and Meliena Street as recipients or witnesses to the notices, with dates in October and September referenced.
The Muscat Association of Queensland with Melba Conservatorium Melbourne will run a preliminary elimination for the Melba Scholarship on December 1 and 11, directed by Harald Ervin. The final on December 12 selects the winner who may study two years at the Conservatorium with allowances for travel board and materials. Open to two female voices, entrants must be at least 17 and pay a 1 1/1 shilling fee. candidates present two contrasting items. Failure to win preliminaries does not bar entry in Melbourne on December 1, 1948.
A garbled OCR passage mixes phrases about fatigue biliousness and pimples with broken names and phrases. The text references a diet or product claim and stray mentions of a “Serum” and unclear medical hints, all jumbled and unreadable as a single fragment.
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