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Newspaper
Geraldton Guardian
Location
Geraldton, Western Australia, Australia
Date
Jan 16, 1917
Page
1
A garbled OCR feed shows scattered timings and routes titled Inward Mails. Mentions Walkaway Line Tuesday and various small towns including Perth Ling Cue Ling Meekatharra Wongan Hil Northampton and Pomday with Maynare. The text likely lists timetable fragments or mail routes with inconsistent days of the week.
The article describes blockade running lore and the British Examination Service known as the Search or Blockade. It recounts an incident aboard Pushalong where armed boarding and cargo inspection uncovered deceptive beans forged from rubber and a camouflaged oil deposit, illustrating wartime naval intelligence tactics and wry humor.
The carver of Me James J. Hill, the railway magnate, has died in Minnesota. Born in Canada, he worked on a farm, then as a wharf labourer and a clerk for the St Paul Railway Company. He rebuilt a debt‑ridden line, expanded a steel road from St Paul to the Pacific, and led as general manager with patrons Lord Strathcona and Lord Mountstephen backing the effort.
The Supreme Court of Western Australia Probate Jurisdiction issues notice to creditors of James Joseph Toole or Tighe who died September 1916. Creditors must send claims by February 7, 1917, or be barred from distribution of estate by the curator of inadequate estates.
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