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Newspaper
Queanbeyan Observer
Location
Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia
Date
May 26, 1911
Page
4
In a tense escape by carriage and train, a young woman evades pursuers with her father figure, a Catholic aristocrat, guiding a covert plan. They discuss safety, disguise, and the nun’s complicity as they hurry toward Dieppe, wary of capture and unseen watchers.
The narrator flees with Daddy to Dieppe while guarded by a Consul and his daughter and faces a harsh, unclear fate. Mr. Darrell, once scorned, is believed to be guiding legal moves and may join aboard a steamer as storm winds rise.
Calendar guidance outlines preparing soil and manure for fodder crops, sowing onion seed, planting onions cabbage and other greens, and preparing beds for mulching. It advises pruning, draining, trenching, drainage work, sowing flower bulbs, and tending orchards, with emphasis on weather and timely field tasks.
Fragment from an old medical advertisement or remedy label lists meadache, constipation and biliousness as complaints. It claims a remedy called Freefolds with gentle benefit and pleasant taste, urging readers to follow a recommended dosage and improve symptoms. It contains archaic spellings and promotional language typical of vintage patent medicine prose.
Sunday notice list includes Church of Mand in Queanbeyan with morning and evening services, John the Baptist’s in Canberra with morning worship, Presbyterian in Queanbeyan and Canberra, and Methodist services at various venues including Gutside Park and a Wo o congregation. Rev E S Henderson and Rev H E Williamson cited among leaders.
Fragmentary OCR notice from Crawford Street, Monaro, listing kerosene items for sale and a publication by John Strickland Follink at the General Machine Printing Office. Mentions Obseorver Office in Q'beyan and Blals of New South Wales with unclear dates and locations.
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