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Newspaper
Mackay Mercury
Location
Mackay, Queensland, Australia
Date
Dec 07, 1905
Page
3
A promotional notice touts a Patot Strainer free with every purchase and claims a portion of price supports cooperative growers in Ceylon. The message emphasizes value over flashy ads and urges customers to seek the famous brand, implying single profit for the enterprise.
A disrupted OCR list shows a flood of grocery items and prices. It mentions herring tins 4a, finest corn flour, sardines, kippered herrings, Worcester sauces, biscuits, tea and mixed sweets, with many garbled spellings and unit marks. The piece reads like a chaotic sale catalog from a department store or market stall.
A garbled OCR text lists numerous goods and brands such as kerosene, soap, flour, syrup, herring, dried fruit, lobsters, sheep tongues, and other provisions. It reads like a catalog of assorted commodities and products with many misspellings and misplaced words, lacking coherent narrative or dates.
Report from Georgetown British Guiana notes a dull disturbance with black forces acting well as BMS Sappho and Diamond sending a force to quell riots with no white casualties. Other items mention Japan’s war debt plan, Turkish conspiracy, Greek massacres, a Chinese customs proposal, and European socialist delegations reacting to Russian revolutionary ideas.
Brisbane report says Constable James Arthur Bennett was acquitted of perjury linked to a licensing case. The case involved a bell in an electric bell at the Regal Hotel, with witnesses disputing its erection date. The bench, by eight to one, discharged the prisoner as evidence failed to prove guilt.
WEW ZEALAND report covers a Mackay meeting with two members present and a committee to plan a closing display. It notes the first Australian amateur swimming championship in Brisbane with winners and times, plus a death notice for Mr W H Nuttall after a balcony fall in Townsville. The Mackay Mercury advertises sugar meat at 11s per year.
Reported in St. Petersburg and Moscow a wave of strikes and protests spreads amid shortages and military disorder. Socialists meet to discuss armed action, while officials consider arrests and resignations. Violence and massacres are noted in several localities as crowds demand order and action.
In Boishane the assembly tabled plans for a perigeusied ferasie and a Vayodah line extension from Westerton to Yardab costing £40,782, with a commissioner of railways assessing the work. Premier Muresan also introduced electoral roll cost reductions, while bills on crime prevention, rabbit amendments, and oil ventures faced debate. the Workers Compensation Bill passed committee.
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