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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Sep 06, 1913
Page
2
Mrs John Brown and family express sincere thanks to Dr Samieon and the Matron of Stamnary Hilla Hospital for kindness after the death of their husband and father. They also thank friends for messages of sympathy and floral tributes sent during their sad bereavement.
A party of trained scientists from the Carnegie Institute of America arrives in Cairns to investigate life forms at the Great Barrier Reef. The group aims to advance physico-chemical explanations of living matter and to seek insights for disease treatment and life sciences progress.
John Brown of Manchester England died August 2 at the District Hospital Stannery Hills. Beloved husband of Annie Brown aged 53. Deeply mourned by family and friends.
A fragment notes a price quote for Sur German Beet at nine shillings six pence per hundredweight in CW records. It mentions first marks and Eraculaged, with references to Hamburg and a date of 12/4. Further context is unclear from the readable text.
In Culles August listings show prices for film cameras at 5, 10, and 19/6 and plate cameras at 10, 11/6, 98/, plus papers and chemicals at low prices. A site inspection is noted as Kanowne sails tonight for southern ports. Mail deadlines are listed with 9.45 pm close for packets and newspapers and 4.45 pm for ordinary letters.
Charles G. T. Murray L C D dentist offers daily consultation on all branches of dentistry at his surgery in the AM. Building Abbotte telephone number not listed FP Nex 185.
An early issue mentions ladies asking to see a “The Mas mene Set” for facial and neck massage products at Craig's Chemist. It also reports hospital cup cricket matches with Gordons versus Hiveshors and Nelson versus Kulabows, plus a Chinaman Ah Sing charged with unlawfully supplying liquor to a blackfellow. The Federal Institute of Accountants notes Herbert Manners advancing to Fellow after eight years.
West-end Cairns Theatre announces a full programme change with a premier film The Romance of the Utah Pioneers featuring Edward Martin and Alice as a married couple traveling toward Belt Lake aboard the Hundert Jomni mall cart. The plot includes peaceful tribal relations and Bennett baskets, with period music and surroundings enhancing the evening.
District notes reward for Brunnich Inawen and plans to Turkley for Innisfail with Newport and Williams. Colt Perfection, rising sire by Eleeter Carnation from Trenton line, earned champion and best sire muttable at Toowoomba Show. Williams departs Saturday to Malanda with life certificate details.
Mr Whale music master at the Imperial Hotel Abbott Street invites appointments regarding tuition. Deaths listed in the Pos column will appear in the current issue at no extra charge.
Mr Tom MecCaskie received a tele ctam from Beatty Young on Friday morning reporting a mishap near Townsville after a trip from Innisfail. Warnings were sent to the Local Japanese group as search efforts for drowned individuals continue despite abandonment of hopes. Melbourne authorities pledge to reimburse expenses incurred in body recovery and survivor rescue. A magisterial inquiry into the incident will be held in due course.
Palace Theatre debuts Palace Pictures Company management with a crowd eager for new fare. The program features The Battle of Long Sault with Henry Dupre adaptation and Red Indian menace, a trial plot by American Biograph, plus The Hand of Fate, Cohen Collects Death, Cocos Cultivation, and a musical by Bins Jensie Fick. Fire brigade attendance and local spice notes accompany the evening.
The Trinity Bay dredge left Cairns on Friday to Port Douglas to deepen the bar. The Cairns Harbour Board had no decision at the previous meeting but later support from Mr Cullen led to dispatch. Cullen offers to lend dredging plant from Mourilyan free of charge for Port Douglas works. Trinity Bay to return to Cairns for coal and Brisbane docking on the 15th instant. In Atherton district, seven holes were charged with general deficiencies of £170. A jury returned a verdict of guilty with mercy recommended. The judge considers applying section 634 for first offenders. The prisoner was bailed pending full Court decision.
The expedition, led by Dr Alfred Mayer and including professors from Harvard Bryn Mawr and Princeton, sails to Thursday Island with a two month program. They will study nerve conduction in jellyfish and track luminous animals while surveying the Barrier Reef.
A garbled passage describes winter illness among a crowd with references to bronchitis and affected children. Mentions Rennington and Movs but the text is too distorted to identify clear people places or events.
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