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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Sep 20, 1924
Page
12
First Cairns visit by ROBUR GREDDENS promotes French style frocks in georgette and nero voile fabrics. Customers invited to view fashionable creations, try on, and judge prices, including linen and shot satin options, with some pieces priced at 49/6.
The text records a chaotic mixture of social and racing notes, marriages, travel, and celebrations. It mentions visits, aquatic events, a Lord Fornust itinerary, court terms, wedding details, and various unnamed ceremonies with scattered dates and places. It preserves names like Brisban and Clara Mustard alongside miscellaneous local happenings.
An unedited, garbled snippet describes a man shooting himself at Ela Beach yesterday morning. The account mentions a traveler with money, a captain and hunter visiting, and discussion of ration supplies and bridging by steamer, with no clear outcome or names confirmed.
An advertisement touts a genuine product claim for a seaweed moss remedy from Ireland. It promotes benefits for bronchitis influenza breathing difficulty asthma and colds with prizes of 1/0 and 8/-.
Fragmentary OCR reads like an old shipping or forwarding notice with names such as Ward General Carter Forwarding and Mareeba. It mentions a depot contact and a phone number, but essential details are incomplete. The readable bits suggest a freight or transport notice from a regional depot.
Fragmentary text describes a parcel of gold lost or misplaced, referencing a value of £3,000 and a post shipment. The garbled lines mention people and places unclear, with repeated phrases and stray quotes.
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