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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Sep 20, 1918
Page
2
Sydney reports London metal quotations for the 18th with prices for standard and spot metals. The standard price is £343 10s for Tim and three words. Silver standard is 7-8 per ounce with Bee 4/5. Test remain unchanged. Tim is noted at New York and San Francisco.
A Cairns led push calls for a coordinated public mobilization to influence the Legislative Council Select Committee visiting Chillagoe and Etheridge railways. The piece argues for focused, nonpartisan testimony, early meetings with local bodies, and a strong, centralized case highlighting regional needs and benefits.
Items note a Babinda excursion organized by the H A C B Society and a relief fund event next Sunday from Cairns. A special general meeting of the association is planned to discuss holiday observance. Reports mention a dwelling entry charge in Redlynch, a shipping freight note, and the Innisfail strike ending with mills and hotels at full swing in Ballarat Stout sales.
Mrs C Foster learns her son Pte Foster is reported ok. A. J. Draper Ltd. to auction household furniture at 2:30 pm. Des Clere acting applications invited until Tuesday 8 October. An unfailing worm remedy sold at Green's chemists. Frank Kelly killed in action. his Cairns connection noted along with another Cairns boy Thomas Moore also killed. Eye strain advice from optician H F Stacey at Abbott Street Cairns.
Pupils of Miss Campbell LAE passed at the London College of Music exams with Ruth Knowles top Senior and Joasie Methregor advanced intermediate. Thelmalising first class pass noted. Mayers hosts Charming Camisoles weekend feature with special camisole exhibition including trimmed Empra dapolam and Torchon lace items and price range details.
The Carns District Hospital committee met on Thursday evening with Mr. E Henriques presiding. J Peter Allan and A Taylor received leave. The surgeon's report and financials showed a debit balance of £383 9s 8d. The house committee approved payments of £1737 and discussed carnival preparations for next week.
A dairy cattle sale is to be held at Tableland Land Estate and Commission Agency. Mr Hanrahan will auction the picked herd of Mrs Arthur Keeble of Freshwater. The sale occurs soon with livestock to be offered to the highest bidder.
An advertisement touts Soda as the enemy of indigestion and a friend to dyspeptics, claiming it stimulates natural digestion and relieves discomfort. Another product, Green's kuritch, promises instant relief from irritated skin and itch, with a price noted as 1) 5.
The article details the Red Cross Society fundraiser tied to a hospital carnival procession starting from Wharf Street at 6pm with a route via Abbott Street Shields Street Sheridan Street and park gates. It lists a long assortment of sale items with prices and notes on the supporting groups and participants including naval and commercial entities. It also references a joke line about hats and a remark on Ballarat Stout in response to Austria's peace note.
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