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Newspaper
Mackay Mercury
Location
Mackay, Queensland, Australia
Date
Jan 12, 1905
Page
1
A dense OCR fragment shows an auction notice naming WM. GEO. HODGES as agent for a sale. The text references property, land and items, with scattered names and places, but the legible core indicates an executor or auctioneer listing an estate sale and related terms. The readable bits imply bidding action and sale administration by Hodges or his firm.
Gigantic stocktaking sale urged households to stock up at Mackay Fresh Food and Ice Company Ltd next to Morgan's barber shop in Sydney Street. The pitch cites two shopper classes post Christmas and promotes up to date bargains for the next four weeks, urging early visit and noting the current market as ideal for bargains.
An OCR pasted page fragment lists numerous professionals and firms in the Mackay region. It mentions auctioneers, wholesale wine and spirit merchants, auditors, brokers, valuators, customs house agents, and property firms. The garbled text references meetings, registrations, and property listings with various monetary figures and locations such as Wood and Victoria corners.
Readers are offered a wide array of goods from flour and rice to jam tea and tobacco with listed prices. Items include Patenta Flour 1% per tack, Japan Rice 1/6 per beg, jam Hartson’s 1/0, Wanl’s Baking Powder 4 per tia, Malaga Raisins Al per 1b, and cereals, soaps, and sewing machine oils priced for quick sale.
A garbled OCR style piece names Dick and May railed about advertising and a fort, with scattered phrases about seeing items, a Pope’s list, and a colonel. It conveys street chatter and humorous mishearings without a clear main event or structured facts.
A fragmented report describes discussions on extending a railway survey line to serve a proposed sugar industry expansion. Officials debate cost, government versus council roles, and potential compensation or guarantees, with emphasis on survey work, line construction, and related infrastructure.
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