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Newspaper
Cloncurry Advocate
Location
Cloncurry, Queensland, Australia
Date
Aug 17, 1935
Page
3
Sporting Clonguary Advocate reports a chaotic racing notice with scattered names and events from Brisbane and Sydney venues. The fragment lists horses, hurdles, and handicaps, but many terms are garbled, yielding little coherent results beyond a sense of varied races and participants.
In a astonishing display at Brookdale, W Hoallie delivered 9,000 shooy over 260 miles with rough water and minimal surface water, arriving at N by desiltation wharf of 64. The feat prompts Central and Southern frovers to compare and challenge the record.
A jumble of wedding announcements and social items shows men and women traveling, leaving for honeymoons, attending exhibitions, and planning balls and social duties. Names like Mulray, Arthur, Maurice, Pringle, and others appear with travel, duties, and event reminders across towns and hotels.
Australian readers are invited to order Speedid Smoking Mixtures direct from Combined Growers Vocabces Manufacturers’ Co Limited. Various pipe blends and tobaccos listed with prices and postage paid. Money back if not perfectly wetted. Commercis Road Valley Brisbane.
A man faced Magistrate in Cowesville on Wednesday morning on charges of fraud by pretending a cheque was valid. Details describe alleged attempts to obtain funds from Stanley Wong, N C Gadtawn, and W Calman with counterfeit cheques. Warrant read by Plain Clothes Constable Murphy led to remand in Cloncurry as offences were said to have occurred there and at Townsville.
Readable fragments hint at a local notice involving timing and officials. The text mentions public action and dates, with partial names and places obscured. Further detail is unavailable from the provided snippet.
A terse notice notes a proposed event named puRRAK BALL within charitable institutions in the Blo Hall. Organizers urge scrutiny of participation and timing as part of a broader fundraising effort across multiple outlets.
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