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Newspaper
Cloncurry Advocate
Location
Cloncurry, Queensland, Australia
Date
Aug 18, 1939
Page
2
All persons entering Lanarie Selection Tommy's Creek must heed notice to homestead. Any cutting lances driving stock through gates opened on Vila Holding without authority will be prosecuted. Barton.
Rev Q P Williams preaches at Sunday Echo, 10 am. Church services announced with address and parish details.
Mrs Kiss and family honor the memory of their husband and father Jak Rick who died August 19 1938. They thank Dr Jaye and the nurses at Cloncurry District Hospital for care while he was an inmate of the Institution.
Mrs Kiss and family sincerely thank all friends for messages of sympathy during their recent bereavement. Please accept this as our personal acknowledgment from Mrs Kiss and family.
Over two days the railway district booked 54 trucks from Dajarra Lakes Creek and 22 from Kajabbi to Dulgetys and Colbun with about 4000 head of cattle moved. Field Pty Ltd Sydney booked and landed around 10000 head on trucks from Butru Dujarni Koolamarra to Blackall, with only eight cattle lost in transit. Officials praised loading and unloading facilities and noted strong railway support for primary profits. Shorthorn breeder Mr W Weber advertised.
Fragmentary text discusses odds and the idea of risking all for a win in a game of life. It mentions courage, not giving in to fear, and rewards for playing a clean game, with references to individuals like Stewart and Aura.
A 1939 letter from Lynce denounces alleged smearing of Mrs Hawes by a hospital committee, claiming her letter is true. Local sports notes list tennis and golf results from August with names like MacMaster Hulbert Taylor Brassnett and McDonagh, plus upcoming trophy events and Northwestern Championships on late September.
A dense theater page lists film and performer showings across August, including The Rite Brothers in Kentucky Moonstime with Cecil Kellaway in Everybody's Doing It, Patricia Parr and Scott Colton in All American Sweetheart, Laurel and Hardy in Fra Diavolo, Lilly Pons with Jack Oakie in Menting a New High, and Gary Cooper in The Adventures of Marco Polo among others. Also billed are Paid to Dance with Don Terry and Jacqueline Welle, Gangs of New York with Charles Bickford, Panamints Bad Man, Now Wanted on Voyage with Bebe Daniels, Ben Lyau, Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland in Love Winds and Andy Hardy, Law of the Underworld with Chesley Morris and Anne Shirley, and a projected stage-like note on The Tedludealone Racing Drama starring Richard Greene titled Kentucky.
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