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Newspaper
Queanbeyan Observer
Location
Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Oct 13, 1903
Page
3
Fragmented wires report crowded, varied items from a Sunday morning page. Mentions of political debates in Tasmania, the Federal session, and labor disputes mix with domestic tragedies, aviation notes, sports results, and a balloon journey. Names and places appear in a crowded, era-typical montage.
Reports from Nrown and Fonpy-monr describe rain and storm risks lasting two or three days. Auda Moyton’s death death by poisoning at Wogen Hospital is adjourned amid suspicious features. Three Walker brothers and a youth Boence drowned near Inverostgill after a boat capsize. The Tumat railway opening by the Governor drew crowds of over 10 000. An open verdict given on an unidentified man found on the Braleigh trailway. he appeared about 95 with no identifiable clues.
Reports describe 430 mine workers idle at Polaw Alvin Colliery due to wheelers strike, and a wreck on a sheet in the Howick Group near Ucoktown. Other items note a brawl at Cootamundra over state house fees, a suicide report near Cantor Udon, and a discovery near Margaret River with Dutch ancestry ties. Governor Sir George Clarke proclaims a push to breed a superior race in Australia.
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