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Taken from the Cairns Post, Friday 6 January 1928:

A CASUAL STROLL

THE ESPLANADE AT NIGHT.

A REVERIE.

There are times when the commercial brilliance of Abbott-street palls on one, and the yearning for quiteness cannot be denied. One then thinks of the Esplanade with the waves gently lapping against the immovable concrete of the retaining wall. Murray Prior frowns down from across the bay, while in the distance, stretching as far as the eye can see, twinkle the leading lights, like jewels in some monarch’s diadem.

To the right, the Aquatic Hall is a blaze of light. There hearts are free. Sorrows disappear in the tripping of the light fantastic, and artificial passions are engendered in the shuffling grotesqueries of the imported Charleston. Just in front, a cheerful inebriate gnaws hungrily at the remains of a pig’s trotter, mumbling to himself the while he tries to recapture the glow

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Millmerran is near a lookout commonly used by the local Aboriginal population prior to European settlement and the town’s name is believed to be derived from two words – “meel” meaning “eye” and “merran” meaning “to look out”.

European settlement in the Millmerran area began in 1841 when the Gore brothers established the vast Yandilla station. Yandilla station covered an estimated 1,780 square kilometres (690 sq mi) and hosted its own school with 20 to 30 students, telegraph station and store. Closer settlement began after the passing of the Crown Lands Alienation Act in 1876, which allowed Edward Walpole to select a portion of Yandilla station. In 1881, Walpole established a general store on the site of what was known at the time as Back Creek, and a receiving office was opened with that name on 8 July 1883. It was elevated to the status of

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Daily Standard
Wed 8 April 1914

Serious Accident at Stanthorpe

A serious accident befl Mr. and Mrs. Robert Day just outside Stanthorpe on Saturday afternoon. Particulars of the accident show that Mr. and Mrs. Day who are aged 76 and 74 years respectively, were driving home from Stanthorpe to their home at Smoker’s Gully, a locality about three and a-half miles from the town, when one of the reins became entangled under the horse’s tail resultant upon which the occupants were thrown from the sulky. This is all the available information to hand respecting the accident.

The doctor and ambulance were requisitioned, and the injured aged couple were conveyed to the hospital at Stanthorpe. The doctor subsequently reported that Mr. Day had sustained three broken ribs, cuts on the head and legs, and bruises. One of the ribs was penetrating the lung. Mrs. Day received serious cuts

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Wowan is a small rural township in the Shire of Banana in Central Queensland, Australia. It is named from the Aboriginal word for the Australian brush-turkey.

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The Capricornian
Sat 6 Nov 1897

The Accident at Clermont
Full Details

One of the saddest accidents that has occurred in the history of modern Clermont happened last night at the Town Hall, says the Peak Downs Telegram of the 29th October. The Quadrille Assembly had arranged to hold its last night of the season, which had been a very successful one. Everything was provided, therefore, to make the wind-up of the season a brilliant success.

At half-past eight there was a rush to the gallery; before a quarter to nine that gallery was down on the floor of the hall, its timbers shivered as though it had been built of match-box wood – a very wreck. It was a flimsy structure, to say the least of it, and how it has carried the crowds of people we have seen in it we do not know. But it

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Cairns Post
Friday 31 Dec 1920

Babinda Notes

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Our roads and bridges in particular have been receiving some comment of late, and are (the bridges) being designated as veritable death traps, but all the same, wind explosions, or pen efforts, will not alter the pace of the owners of honk machines who smillingly negotiate the said death traps at racing speed. Posts and wires were securely placed on all these bridges, but had to be removed owing to the formidable amount of debris and logs that are carried along by the flood waters, and find resting places against the many bridges that span those streams.

The Babinda structure receives an unusual amount of timber, and on several occasions the chance of its demolition seemed a sure thing. All measures and precautions may be made for the prevention of accidents, but the fact remains that accidents will occur and at

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The Brisbane Courier
27 Feb 1930

Boonah

Accident – Aubrey Webb (14 years), residing at Dugandan, fell from a tree in the school grounds and fractured his left forearm. The Boonah Amulance rendered first aid and conveyed the patient to Dr. W. A. Fraser’s surgery.

Queensland State Archives Item ID 436385, Photographic material

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The Brisbane Courier
Tuesday 4 July 1916

Shooting Accident Near Bundaberg

Arthur Loeskow, the eight year old son of Mr and Mrs Loeskow, of Bororen, was the victim of a serious shooting accident to-day (our Bundaberg correspondent advised last night). It appears that while out duck shooting with some mates a shot gun carried by one of the boys was accidentally discharged, and Loeskow, who was standing some distance away, received the whole charge in his shoulder and head.

The boy was able to proceed home and appraise his mother of the occurence. He was brought to Bundaberg by the mail train to-night, and conveyed to a private hospital by the Ambulance Brigade. Efforts were made at the hospital to locate and extract the pellets, and to-night the boy was reported to be doing as well as could be expected.

Queensland State Archives Item ID 436385, Photographic material

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