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Newspaper
Queanbeyan Observer
Location
Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia
Date
May 22, 1906
Page
3
A mixed historical price list shows per unit and bulk costs for goods such as sugar, flour, onions, potatoes, maize, pumpkins, cheese, candles, soap, kerosene, and miscellaneous items. It reflects regional trade pricing with varied coinage and measurement terms typical of the period.
Mussas C H McKeahnie Richard Moore and James McCarthy win re election as directors of the P P Boal unopposed. The first meeting of Yarrowlumla shire council will be held at Queanbeyan Courthouse on 1ath June. Various local items follow from Homebush sales to railway tests and Empire Day preparations.
Church notices list services and ministers at Bumpar Quesnboyap-lem and Canberra area. Evensong and hymns scheduled for Thursday and Sunday. Ministers named include A. M. Horcusrr, Rev. Gea Reeve, and Rev. E. Hexdew on duty.
Short items report earthquakes in the New Hebrides with no serious damage, land board meetings in June, political moves in Australia, a Mumbai police killing and arrest, medicinal ads, a Russian spy death, a hanging body near Tarcutia, wool sales in London, New Zealand navvies selected in England, Durban murder, a tenement fire in Essex with deaths, US battleship funding, lightning fatalities in Austrian Silesia, a memorial unveiling, and local accidents and sports notes.
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