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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Oct 30, 1917
Page
3
A patchwork column reports military losses and arrivals from France and Britain, with wives and families notified of sons and husbands killed or on active service. Updates include message receipts, hospital transfers, and promotions, plus local acknowledgments of servicemen and related civic notices.
A critical essay laments labor unions and capitalists, arguing both sides err. It traces a dramatic railroad incident to illustrate risk and praises collective bargaining while warning against coercive tactics. It discusses open versus closed shops, leadership in the AFL, and the danger of power concentrated in a few.
Barrington and W Danaher, members of Brisbane and Sydney Tattersall Clubs and Victoria Club Melbourne, appear in a Melbourne racing schedule featuring the Epsom Handicap at one mile, Metropolitan Handicap at one mile, Caulfield Cup at fourteen miles, and the Melbourne Cup at two miles with dates in September October and November.
Local notes from the Cairne Post era mention farmers and agents including J F Sutherland H McKeight and Leonard Malgan. Names such as Garnet Armstrong Ledlie Stillman and Milo Watson appear in scattered items with terse references to estates and regional figures.
Fragmented OCR text mentions tablets and a table or chart. The readable portions are cryptic and incomplete with several garbled phrases and missing context. No clear events, dates, or named entities beyond the partial reference to Chamuerlal tablets.
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