05 Jun 1914
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Newspaper
Queanbeyan Observer
Location
Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Jun 05, 1914
Page
1
A lengthy electoral and civil servant listing outlines members, roles, and jurisdictions including M.L.A entries, clerks, constables, magistrates, and church positions. It notes various offices such as police, land, and post services with duty assignments across multiple districts.
Fragmentary text from a June date page mentions Thoth NY and various numbers unclear. The readable items include a time like 2 1s po and addresses or codes, but specifics are uncertain.
The note describes postal notes with various denominations and the poundage charged. It explains reimbursement by mail for values up to £1 using multiple notes and outlines the notes’ value arrangement and handling rules.
An auction advertisement invites entries for a weekly sale at a furniture salon in the Holloway area. It lists personal attention to blocking, signing wool, and correlative acts under the Real Property Act. Noting insurers and agricultural products, it mentions NOXALL poison and sheep dip products.
Five sticks of dynamite with burning fuses were found under the U S Department of Agriculture offices. Workers extinguished the fuse threat and a discharged employee is suspected of involvement in the planned attack. The incident prompted a near-fatal risk to officials including Secretary of Agriculture James F Houston.
Mont Lassen near Redding California erupts ashes while mud and lava spill from a new crater. Officials say the eruption is not dangerous as it comes two centuries after the last activity. An expedition has been sent to study the cause of the outbreak.
An extraordinary scarlet fever outbreak has struck the State prison at Auburn New York. About a thousand prisoners are affected and isolation is impossible. Officials blame the infection on wigs used during a prison theatrical performance.
News from Sydney reports a severe cyclone hitting the Wokelau Islands north of Somat. Nukuno tu suffered heavily as a sudden afternoon gale drove waves over fifteen foot church walls, drowning several people and killing two children, with trader Adam Main killed by a falling coconut tree.
A three room cottage on a wagon broke an axle while crossing the tram line between Watkins street and O Connell street Newtown. The cottage slid from the wagon and lay across outward lines causing a serious blockage as it was being moved from Pyrmont to Campsie.
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