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Newspaper
Queanbeyan Observer
Location
Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Nov 20, 1908
Page
4
Three survivors remained as others were destroyed or blown overboard. Passengers and emigrants scrambled aboard, ignoring the captain’s orders to wait. They seized seats and pushed off, despite pleas from those left on deck and the beleaguered captain’s threats.
A garbled compilation of terms, place names, people, and seemingly jumbled phrases. The text references weather, water, and various locations, with scattered proper nouns such as Ko lr mar and Esuth. It reads as an OCR-torn miscellany with no clear single event or story.
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