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  2. Gigantic Oil Ramp In Frenzied Fight For Fortunes

    OIL! Flowing gold! Carry your mind back a year. There was feverish activity on the share markets. Speculation reached unparalleled limits. Reports from the Roma field were scrutinised with keen anxiety. Fortunes were being made and lost. Behind the frenzied hurly burly of the stock exchanges were cool groups, of clever men, coldly raking off ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 3,171 words
  3. FROST GOT A COLD RECEPTION

    WHEN Senior-sergeant McGrath informed the Magistrate during the week that George Frost had stolen ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 144 words
  4. THOUGHT IT CHEAP AT THE PRICE

    NORMAN Cleland may be a very good' dairy-hand, bill as a footrunner he came a bad second to Jim Porter, ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 154 words
  5. DEFRAUDED IGNORANT HALF-CASTE MOTHERS

    DEFRAUDING half-caste mothers of their maternity bonus is the latest thing in crookdom as practised by Charles Leslie Hogg, erstwhile public servant. As compared with an honest burglar Hogg looms large, because the burglar takes some risks, whereas Hogg took no risk, or ...

    Article : 1,207 words
  6. STANDARD COMPANY'S PARTNERSHIP STUNT

    "Steady, willing worker can have constant employment in manufacturers' business, award wages, invest small capital. Standard Co., First Floor. Hibernian Buildings, 88 Adelaide-street., open all day to-day." The above advertisement appeared in a Brisbane daily newspaper ...

    Article : 533 words
  7. NOT DRUNK—"SLIGHTLY MELLOW"

    HE was out on bait, and when his name was called at the court he entered, bringing with him an aroma of sprits and uncertain foolsteps. Gravely ...

    Article : 538 words
  8. WIFE'S EXIT

    AFTER living with her husband for 10 years a mother of three children suddenly decided to join "the woman of the streets,"and left her home for a ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 384 words
  9. VILLAGE BEADLES WIN OUT

    VILLAGE beadles of the Port Douglas shire have apparently succeeded in strenuous attempts to kill a new local ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 443 words
  10. ENOUGH FOR ONE DAY

    IT was the deluge for Albert John Lusk at the courts this week. His wife, adorned with a black eye allegedly of his giving, sued him for assault, but when she found out that Detective Albeitz stood at hts elbow ready to arrest him on another charge as soon ...

    Article : 147 words
  11. HUSBAND FINED

    THE question of the moment is "Can a man be keeping his wife while the wife in question is actually making contributions towards the ...

    Article : 203 words
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