18 Mar 1910
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Newspaper
Queanbeyan Observer
Location
Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Mar 18, 1910
Page
1
A garbled March calendar notes farming tasks and supplies. The fragment mentions planting, ploughing, and preparations for crops like lettuce, beans, corn, and vegetables, with scattered references to weather, tools, and market planning.
Fragmentary OCR notes list headaches indigestion constipation and biliousness amid garbled text. Several names and stray phrases hint at medical complaints and a voting context without clear facts or dates.
The text describes subscribers and payments to a newspaper, mentioning digits, percentages, and figures tied to delivery, distribution, and the publisher. It references wristband records, subscription counts, and delays, with unclear names and dates. The fragmentary beaded content hints at payment status and reader obligations.
A jury failed to reach a verdict in a manslaughter case involving a youth who fired a weapon rented minutes earlier. Acting Justice Fituinaidinge urged caution on firearm handling and noted the prior loading act and the lack of knowledge of the weapon was loaded. The judge discharged the jury and hinted at future harsher handling of firearms.
A 16 year old girl named Millicent James was found deceased after being struck on a railway line beyond Lithgow station. The body was severed from the trunk and removed by Driver Freestone of an engine from Clarence to Wallerswang. The victim was the daughter of William James, a longtime resident.
A puzzling Sunday incident near Leoni Pingelly in Western Australia ends in two siblings dead and a broken pea rifle found between them. The boy Percy Nowby aged 13 supposedly shot his sister Edith, 12, by accident and then killed himself, with possible evidence that the weapon was damaged by a horse-drawn sulky.
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