28 Oct 1905
Page 1
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Newspaper
Mackay Mercury
Location
Mackay, Queensland, Australia
Date
Oct 28, 1905
Page
1
An auction notice lists WH. GEO. HODGES as auctioneer offering stock, office fixtures, and long list of mining and forwarding assets. The document details property near mills, land parcels of several acres, monthly and yearly terms, dividends, and conditions for bidders including deposits, interest rates, and payment schedules.
Fragmentary text appears to describe a sale at Byron Street and a retention area, with garbled names and phrases. Parts reference merchants in Tasmania and Brisbane, but details are unreadable. No clear event, date, or entities can be reliably identified from the legible words.
Disjointed OCR text describes a four year old boy Bam Harris dying after a fall at a public place? Western Charspian TM and New Tek Worst slangy fragments hint at a local incident. The readable parts mention a four year old child found with injuries and a confusing sequence of names and events.
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