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Newspaper
Cloncurry Advocate
Location
Cloncurry, Queensland, Australia
Date
Jan 24, 1941
Page
2
Clipped OCR notes indicate a sports like event featuring Rabtor Shami and Brom Fobepbere. The fragment references an agent and a competition with a wide advertising context, suggesting a paired match or trial in a Foxv setting. Further specifics are unreadable.
Persons in charge of travelling tok must file NOTICE at We ROMESTEAD before entering Tibhers Creek. Failure to comply will be PROSECUTED without further notice. Names cited include W ESPA SYDNEY TIPS and several handicap entries such as Muvico, Bondi, Wisden, Marengo, and Sioneul.
Fragmented OCR text mentions Melbourne and various garbled names and phrases. The readable elements include place Melbourne and references to a Friday event, with numerous distorted proper nouns suggesting people or teams. No clear date, event, or outcome is extractable.
Obscure sale notice for Walton Vale listing rough details from damaged OCR. Mentions price 4980, items like rope, pump and lines, with apply contact Mr. Bael Cumming at Pant Olltee Clascuery.
In memory of our wife Jean who passed away by natural causes in January 1940 at Creele. Affectionate husband Louis head and family express grief and remembrance, recalling her devoted life and love.
Bright display highlights fashionable swimwear with smart caps matching outfits. Early purchases urged as the swimming carnivals approach, promising popular styles and new designs for upcoming events.
The notice urges preparing children for school with fittings for hats shoes and socks at Arion’s Ltd suitable for Convent and State schools for boys and girls. It promotes value and urges bringing children to be fitted out for the New Year. The Interior Department advertises tenders for five buildings near Cloncurry in this issue.
Tenders call for mail services from Mhthie Lane to Muster Central and various routes including Meisa P wo Railway Station Baulla to Giengyle 34 Jaw fu Camoowent Selwyn to Bulla Nellk to Zonle Downs Jullir Creek to Kynuna Clonousry FO tw Railway Syieion Seeho adver.
Fragmented OCR lists several Cloncurry youths connected to local colleges and families. It mentions Keyan Bult, Christian Brentens Solin Pao, and other pupils of AE Hatit's school, along with daughters of Mr and Mrs. Fott and Mr and Mrs. Fotts. The text is garbled but points to school affiliations and family links.
A fragmented wartime piece lists names including Marys Hhiovtees Towers and Douglas Lindsey plus verse attacking the Hun. The text blends family names, personal identities, and a martial ode expressing hostility to war and enemy cruelty.
The piece recalls early Cloncurry life tracing the Seymour family trek from Bayern Wood to Glen Curry in 1874, George Seymour’s hotel ventures, the Royal Hotel, and the old mines near the Rocks with names like Baldy Bill and Uncle Tom. It notes Mim Lucy and Alman Red’s era, family ties to local blacksmiths, and historic roads to Hughenden.
An aging reminiscence details the Cloncurry area’s old families and racecourse legends. It recalls Lucy Bryncill, Denise Harty, and the Styrmolrs lineage, plus the Alman family and community figures who shaped local farming, medicine, and social life in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
The Cunningham scholarship goes to Alan J Tebbertson a Thornburgh College student Charters Towers. Alan son of Captain John Robertson Harbour Master Townsville arrived at Thornburgh with a state scholarship in 197 swearing this junior 1998 and senior last year planning an engineering course at the University with a bright future.
Damaged OCR fragment mentions CHONOURY FATRIOTIC FUND and Railway Dept lines, with garbled names and a postal box in Clonouery. No coherent event or outcome usable for a full news item.
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