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Newspaper
Cloncurry Advocate
Location
Cloncurry, Queensland, Australia
Date
Dec 01, 1944
Page
2
A collection of local humor items and jokes from the Cloncurry Advocate dated December 1 1944. Narratives include a painter wife tale from Mount Isa a wartime island rumor and a Hollywood license query with regional quips and cartoonish lines reflecting rural Australian humor. The piece preserves period voice and regional flavor with multiple named places Mount Isa New Guinea Australia Hollywood and Mount Isa.
Police found George Sangster with a head wound at his East Cloncurry home after a morning errand. He died at the hospital after attempting to reload a rifle. he had left four young children and a note for his daughter Betty. A coroner’s inquest will be held later. A sporty meeting included a mil run and a two mile roller skate event with a joke about a skipped mile.
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