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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Oct 15, 1920
Page
4
Stationer and newsagent ant tobacconist stock lines. Donnell Harris aquatic club social and dance details with Foster's Orchestra. Solicitors Dennis and Markham public notices. Property listings include cattle run, sugar farm and Kuranda blocks. Obituary note for William Moss. St Andrew's Presbyterian Church services announced with details.
Passenger lists from Artivale dated October 14 show travelers from Cooktown to Kuranda and Raven for Townsville via ports. Named passengers include Mesdames F W Crag Norgate Bellamy and many others. listed agents Burns Philp & Co Ltd.
A historical brief records high water readings for Friday October 15 1920 with measurements noted as 117 am and 1116 pm indicating extreme tide levels in the local waterway.
Jonny fragments list dates and times in October 1920. Entries include 8 am on the 12th and 10:29 am on the 1st, with references to full moon and perigee times. The text is readable but incomplete, giving scattered era observations without a clear narrative.
Fenwick and Co salesmen Bris bane report ender date the October. 4200 penned. Good sneer date meton ate LS penned. Grmer i's iat Sees report winder date 7th Octo Sundries. All descriptions of horse and cow hair are well at about late rates. Horna sinews and Ce demand.
Available for today’s sale the total 5079 with 224 submitted. Light hides and heavy skins sold well while middlings and mediums fetched little demand. Catalogue offered. top price at 10s per lb with other lots sold at varied bids. Calfskins and yearlings yielded late rates. sheepskins no sales recently due to wool market, but buyers now show basis to resume Friday. Large catalogue planned with quality lines. tallow market unchanged with prime selling to buyers. 100 casks sold privately.
At Roma Street Brisbane on October 14 heavy potatoes led demand with prices near 2 a ton and 20/10 offered for several lines. Lucerne hay and oaten chaff moved at varied rates, pumpkins at 8/6, swede turnips 20, sweet potatoes 1, pollard WO/3, bran 9/4, and maize around 7/7 fading to 7/5 as agents noted lively stocks and mixed clears.
London October 14 copper and tin trade was very slack. The weakness is attributed to a general wave of depression largely due to uncertainty in the coal position.
Local briefs report a clean charge sheet at Watts Mule Court and a Carns Licensing Court decree for Par ity Hotel. Edmonton events include a St Stephens Bazaar, Townsville Peace Loan progress, and North Avernsland division subscriptions totalling £498,170 with £500,000 sought.
Members and ex members who served as Thoraday Island may apply directly to District Finance Officer Victoria Barracks Brisbane. Forms at Post Office. St Davies, Captain O C Ist AGA. Health booklet offer from Primeda Remedies send threepence to DE P... NS W. Address letters care fully to our only address.
The St Albans arrives from the East and Cairns readies for the Chilla g oe Carnival with a four day program. The Aquatic Club hosts a lively dance tonight while HMAS Geranium docks with a mine sweeper past and a request to grant shore leave for sailors. An accident at Hambledon Mill prompts ambulance action and a public auction plan for Brinsmeads Estate offers rich soil near the railway.
Fragmentary OCR shows timber sale references including rates per foot and timber types. Mentions Mr J Maste, 2d per foot, 7 Cairns, and cycled or cyclone day smuting unclear. Names and specifics are garbled but indicate timber sales or land timber pricing in the Cairns area.
A damaged fragment describes a gathering with mentions of fashion items such as ladies shoes and handkerchiefs, prices in Cairns, and a military incident involving a ship’s company. The text blends social merchandise with a reported wartime misfortune and capture of a gunner, set near a northwest sweeper and local natives.
Pwinstone Specials feature daily reductions on footwear and hats. Boots and pumps heavily discounted for women and children, with mens derbies and canvas shoes also on sale. Travel gear includes matting and suitcases. some items slightly soiled. Rows etry E Reneal tweed. Canberra sits Veach.
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