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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Oct 20, 1914
Page
2
A promotional note from Armstrong Ledlie Stillman encourages buying enamelled ware there. It touts extensive variety and large turnover as reasons to choose their store over others.
The third annual exhibition at Innisfail on 9th and 11th instants drew large crowds from the district. Exhibits across livestock, horses, crafts, and farm produce were judged of high quality with a grand parade of prize winners. The event, aided by generous local volunteers, showcased strong displays from Good Samaritan Sisters, Convent School pupils, and local farmers, with extensive needlework and horticulture sections.
The report lists numerous classes from a livestock and poultry show. It names competitors such as R. G. Jones and C. E. Wilcox, various horses and draughts, cattle including Holstein and Ayrshire cows, poultry events with Orpingtons and Leghorns, and dogs including collies and terriers. Multiple prizes and judges are noted across categories.
Mrs Alice A Vowell of Cresay Tasmania reports her teething child suffered severe diarrhoea until giving Chamberlains Cotic and Dior cheese Remedy. She praises rapid improvement within hours and says the child soon recovered. Also notes a promotional mention of a revision portable dynamo and other machines used by governments.
Wholesale listings from European Agency cover a wide range of goods including hooks and stationery notes show and leather chemicals and druggists sundries chin Earthenware glassware cycles motor gear and records drapery millinery and mere goods fancy goods and parfumer y hardware machinery and metals photographic and optical goods provisions and oilmen stores cortminton jewellery late and watches trade discounts allowed special quotations on demand.
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