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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Oct 26, 1914
Page
2
An advertisement promotes enamelled ware at Armstrong Leslie and Stillman, claiming no middleman profit and tight prices. The copy emphasizes customer satisfaction and repeated news-style rhetoric, though language is garbled.
Listing describes fire-roomed house with outbuildings and multiple subdivided blocks at Mareeba, Freshwater sugar land, and Smithfield. Twenty eighty acre blocks with cultivation and scrub land, contact J. T. Griffiths Redlys ch for details. Includes motor boat storage and equipment offerings with price and timing notes.
Stock listings from Charters Towers show a wide range of brokers and shares with prices and paid statuses. Notable items include Chillagoe, Mammoth, North Tyrconnell, Bowen Coal Co, Cairns Gas, and the Bank of Australasia among others with bids and paid up notes noted.
The report covers October operations at Colten Crown Mines by Huruam Consols GM Co. Ltd. It notes extension of West Level to 27 ft, new face of mineral stone, East Level advance and 32 ft face, and a North Drive through friable ore with water inflow. Mullock and quart tonnages, plus water conditions and crew references are listed.
Messrs Winchcombe Carson Ltd report activity on October 11 with weekly declines fully recovered. Prices show gains in certain lines as three carrying tick rates and various prices rise. Tallow and other commodities display solid demand from local manufacturers with prime tallow sold at higher prices.
Reporter notes a large Brisbane crowd witnessed Herb McCoy of Australia defeat Fernand Quendreux of France at the Stadium on Saturday night after a strong early effort by the Frenchman. The referee’s verdict favored McCoy amid cheers for Quendreux’s brave showing. In Sydney, Qui Christie stopped Victor Marchant in the third round at Haser’s Stadium on Saturday.
The much talked about Dauntless versus Austral sailed Saturday afternoon proved abortive. A host accident clause meant resail if needed. Dauntless won the trophy with 200 points amid light rain and shifting wind, as boats struggled to tack and five drifted out with the tide.
In Milwaukee a Spanish descent woman Cora Kerwinek posed as a man for ten years and lived with a partner as husband. She and another woman, Manis, worked in trades and were arrested after a police inquiry into the deceptive marriage certificate granted by a doctor. The pair describe masquerading to supplement wages and keeping up the ruse in social circles.
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