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Newspaper
Cloncurry Advocate
Location
Cloncurry, Queensland, Australia
Date
Apr 02, 1932
Page
2
G W Jenkins announces readiness to perform all classes of carting including wood wool furniture and other contracts. He offers reliable services in Clonturry and district with an emphasis on prompt delivery and steady work.
Warning to any person trespassing on Fort Constantine padoges that trespassers will be severely punished and any lock straying there will be impounded.
One and a half mile from the railway station a ten acre farm with a good Walter, fruit trees and vegetables of all descriptions. Mangoes produced £25. Fenced with a new house 20 by 16 feet with verandah. Includes sulky, horse and harness, fowls, school two miles away. Let at £10 9 net. Apply Oloncurry Advocate.
The Advocate proclaims newspaper advertising delivers superior value, claiming broad reach and universal appeal as its key advantages. It emphasizes the widespread distribution and effectiveness of ads in driving awareness.
The Cloncurry Advocate promotes itself as having the largest weekly circulation, covering district news, latest sporting results, cabogram and telegraphic updates. It asserts advertising value and guarantees being the best advertising medium for the district with a strong backing.
Presbyterians hold services with Rev G Whitney leading Dving Services on Sunday at 1 30. Sunday School at 10 AM. Federal Methodist Mission lists Sunday School at 9 46 AM and Evening Worship at 7 PM led by Rev J J Mahoney. MT ISA Reverend Hayes conducts Sunday School at 3 45 and Mines Bundsy School at 7 90 PM with Evening Worship.
A fragment from The Advocate dated Saturday April 2 1933 references a feature or item titled De Jostama Fear Nal. readable text notes a satirical or column-like note within the periodical.
Six months after a strike at Dobbyn Ozlde and Orphan mines the dispute over wages and tribute payments involves Mesers Petersen and Powell. Talks with union leaders and company representatives continued as authorities consider three months of exemption and potential settlements to restart mining operations.
Easter holidays passed quietly with no horseracing or major sports due to Depression. Boy Scouts led by W Burrows and Wallace Gibson carried out work, while residents enjoyed picnics at lake sites and mixed bathing daily, fish catches described as sardine-like.
Mrs A Guerin of His Majestys Hotel Cloncurry received a telegram stating Tom Guerin died at Woodlark Island near Cairns on March 25. It is believed fever from the dry country caused his death. Guerin mined for gold at Woodlark Island for about 11 years and planned to return to the mainland but stayed to wash dirt. He was 67, survived by a wife and two sons Eric and Roy. He was well known in Cloncurry, having worked at various mines and left Mt Isa for Woodlark Mining Company.
A garbled excerpt discusses future medical miracles and bizarre food pills, followed by previews of upcoming film offerings. It mentions WSU and SMU era figures, then reviews suggest a high opinion of a Pioneer cinema year with dramatic actors like Charles Farrell and Janet Gaynor.
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