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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Sep 30, 1910
Page
4
The advertisement lists numerous discounted items from men and women apparel to household goods. Discounts include shirts, flannelettes, towels, shoes, umbrellas, cretonne, trousers, singlets, pyjamas, and more with prices slashed to marked lower amounts. Purchases available today and tomorrow at N. and A. Mellick Lake Street Cairns.
The Cairns column lists numerous travelers and arrivals from Charters Towers and Brisbane, including Mrs Oyle and two children en route to Newness, Mr and Mrs Kennedy heading to Herberton, Miss Evelyn de Winton’s forthcoming wedding, and Bishop Murray's return from Cooktown. Other entries note visits to Atherton, Kuranda, Telga, and Georgetown, with local business and social notices and a few product ads.
The clipping lists numerous arrivals and visits to Kuranda and Cairns including Mr T McSharry from Sydney, Mr and Mrs Williams from Bendigo, Mr and Mrs Wilson from Melbourne, and others. It mentions transfers within Atherton to Innisfail, travel plans to Torres Strait, and a Bank of New Melbourne official’s health visit. Also advertised are cosmetic and mining industry notes and a call for tariff legislation to aid Australian tin production.
An unreadable OCR fragment mentions a person and month with limited readable context. The text is too garbled to identify the event, place, or entities beyond hints of a name and a month.
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