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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
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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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The traditional owners of the land in the Ravenshoe district are the Jirrbal people who speak a dialect of the Dyirbal language. The site of the present day Ravenshoe was first settled by pastoralists prior to 1881 but when stands of red cedar (Toona ciliata) trees were found at nearby Cedar Creek, the mining entrepreneur, John Moffat purchased the pastoral properties in 1897. A village called Cedar Creek was established. By 1910, the nearby mining town of Herberton has been connected by railway to Cairns and Cedar Creek had been renamed Ravenshoe.

The name is supposed to have been chosen because a copy of Henry Kingsley’s novel Ravenshoe was found discarded nearby

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