Town and Country News From Cairns and Surrounds
Local report lists visitors to Cairns from Gordonvale Aloomba Innisfail and Townsville plus arrivals by the Kuranda and patterns of movement southward. Military notices include casualties in France and updates on families connected to Warwick Laidley Melbourne and Brisbane.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Warwick
France
Piper Michael Arbuthnot Fraser
Caledonian Society
Roma
A.I.F
St. George
New Hospital Ship in English Port Marks War Medical Advance
A twin screw hospital ship built for the War Office and Hull makers Livingstone and Cooper sails for the Tigris with Red Cross markings. It features four decks, an operating theatre, wards for European and Indian patients, air ventilation, ice plants, and four rudders for shallow Mesopotamian waters, signaling a major medical aid advance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Daily Telegraph
Red Cross
Tigris
Thames
Basra
Mesopotamia
Eupirates
Messrs. Livingstone and Cooper
Hull
Inland Waterways
War Office
Shin
Medicas
Sweden's Pro German Queen Draws Protests Over Food
From Stockholm correspondent F. Grundy writes that Queen of Sweden faces mass anger over pro German sympathies as famine prices bite. May Day guards escorted the Palace amid heavy security while the Queen travels with 17 railway carloads of provisions to Germany.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Daily Express
Stockholm
F. Grundy
Sweden
Germany
The Queen Sees War Machines In France
During a royal visit to France the Queen viewed a chemist shop of war displaying flame throwers smoke machines and other killing devices. She asked questions about how these machines operate as she witnessed the terrifying display of modern warfare.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
France
Most Dangerous of Minor Ailments
A historical note claims a cold is the most dangerous minor ailment because it leads to serious diseases like pneumonia and consumption. It asserts cold increases risk of diphtheria scarlet fever and whooping cough, then promotes Chamberlain's Cough Remedy as a safe cure selling for eighteenpence.
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Overland’s
R. J. Overland
Cairns
Erate
Ametralia
Alfred Taylor
Lake Street
Fearnley &Co., Ltd
Jarniey
F. W. Aumun
Lange Seock
Collen
THR
ORTH
Gelling Bros
Anb Incor
Wak
Abbott Street
J. D. Caterer
Mount Molloy
Mr. Kyle
Mr. Parsons
Mr. Potter
Mr. Horser
Mr. Markham
Mungana
W. C Griffin
Gordonvale
J. McAloon
Aloomba
John Cannon
Charles G. T. Murray
Lq.d
A.M.P
Abrat! Street
Miss E. Hunter
R Ald. Hoffensetz
Ingham
Lore Ee
Mr. Jameson
Townsville
Mrs. Chamb
Georgetown
Clark
Robin Hood Station
Etheridge
West
Laidley
E. W. Missenden
John Missenden
Driver Missenden
Pte
Jack Missenden
Missend
Alroe
Eagle Junction
Thei Son
M. [. Alroe
Harry J. C. Lyons
Grandchester
Stacey
Abbot Girone
P.O
Melbourne
H. 5_ Dickinson
Base Sistem
Seeiee
West End
Brisbane
Colin
Pat
Ontario
Oe Craig
T. W. Fagg
Pte. Fagg
Hinton
Brile B
Artlett
ALF
Bartlett
F. Wylde-Ball
Successant
Mater Misericordiae
A. L. Petrie
M.la
Pre
Park House Camp
England
Reseralien
Pre. Petrie
Edical Corps
Military Hospital
Kangaroo Point
Hopkins
Pre. D. O. H. Hopkins
Teweady
WE. Parry-Okeden
Parry
Alexandria
Seurite
Mesopotan
Bonnington
the Army's Chamber OF Horrors
Arnott’s Milk
Howe
MacKay &O'S Jewellery
Borep
Mackay
MacKay & CO Ltd
Cairng & Brisbane
Hember Wiest
Commonwealth
EAC
H. J. Bulcogce
Bardwars
Nestle's
PAC
B. Bloater
Anchouyette
DR. Waugh
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