Bonny Doon visitors and Cairns professionals in town
Mrs S S Baker Mrs N Oribin and Miss McEachan of Bonnie Doon Kamma visit Cairns. Surgeon Dentist W Knudson Abbott Street Cairns phone 76 P O Box 98. Surgeon Dentist L R Lave Mareeba phone 72. Brigadier and Mrs Renshaw Salvation Army North Queensland officers left for Innisfail. Edward Crossley Mercantile Marine Superintendent with Mrs Crossley visiting Cairns and back country. They travel to Kuranda then Yungaburra and Tableland. Tommy Short Junior promotes tailoring and haberdashery at The Big Tailoring and Mercery Establishment Abbott Street near Cairns Pictures. Court House Hotel Box 185 phone 347.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
S. S. Baker
N. Oribin
McEachan
Bonnie Doon
Kamma
Cairns
Co. W. Knudson
L.D.Q
Abbott Street
P.O
L. R. Lave
Mareeba
Mercantile Marine
Melbourne
Crossley
Cooma
Kuranda
Yungaburra
Tommy Short
Court House Hotel
Monkey's Paw and Witch Doctor Beliefs Hit Nairobi Tale
A Nairobi letter recounts native fears of witchcraft and possession with vivid scenes of illness and superstition. It describes a witch doctor curing or blaming spirits, stories of Kikuyu victims and a Kibos resident with a monkey's paw curse, and notes on medicine and superstition in East Africa.
Quotations Hit Cairns Brokers with Diverse Shares Listed
A Cairns broker reports mixed quotations for Adelaide Steamship, Australian Drug, Asharton Butter Factory and many others. The document lists b and a prices across mines and firms, including Burns, Philp, Mt. Morgan, Tyrconnell, Volcan and more, reflecting lively market activity on September 13, 1922. The text also covers a disturbing note about alleged witchcraft practices and dubious cures among indigenous beliefs, mentioning death of a native cook and various methods said to expel evil spirits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. H. Clarke
Cairns
Adelaide Steamship
Australian Drug
Asharton Butter Factory
Billy ‘Hughes
Bowen Consolidated Coal
British Broken Hill
British Tobacco Co
Misima
Burns, Philp and Co
Cairns Timber Led
Cairns Pictures
Cairns Gas
Clark’s
Edna May Deeps
Gilmore
Great Northern
Hampden
Howard Smith
Con
Bank
Pha
War Honda
P.c
Isis
É P.c
Fatal Clay Pit Fall in Brisbane Witnessed Collapse
In Brisbane on September 12 a man named John Monger was shovelling clay when about three tons of material collapsed burying him. Witnesses called for help but he could not be saved and died at once. The accident occurred in a clay pit with several onlookers nearby.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
East Afian
Kikiuyu
Plamok
Wert
Kibos
Brisbane
John Monger
Also Mentioned on This Page
P. E. Wilkinson
Clark & CO
A. Villiers
Vulcan
THE
Vulcan Foundry & Engineering Works
Delco-Light
DELCO
Smelwe & Co, Ltd
AIRNS
Townsville
Ingham
Ayr
Mackay
United Paints
Alfred Taylor Ltd
P.O. Box
Messrs
Pittard
Diack & CO
Abbott 51
Cnisma
Pees
Pisa Prise
Zonond Prion
Mart Ees
Moraheovet Whees
Lake Eacham Hotel
Ageleland
Electrie
Lake Eacham
Igo
Sydney
Ig Court
Southern Colliery Proletors Association
Abtve
Charles Shibole
Coal Tribunal
Seuty Cogel Leumesc’ Lpm
Town and Country
Atherton
Montgomery
Offce
LA Miller
Shields Street
Cairng
Walter B. Brown, B.ds
Fire Unk
Thos. M. Ae
Ands- FL
Sarrete
G. T. Murray
Richard Hill
M.P. Chambers
Cc. D. Lynch
F.la
AMLP
Chambers
Arthur H
Cairns Fort
Klepalo
Seth
Queensland National Bank Limited
Directo CW
Branghes
London
Pelvourne
Sydna
Australasia
World
G. A. Campbell
Cairne
General
ERC Arts Forwarding & Commission
Commonwealth
Tovila
Mtin
Disgiu
Tor Ehuwen
Newell Saunders
Imperief
Powas
H. J. Bulcock
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