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  2. BRISBANE TOOL-MAKER ATTRIBUTES RUIN TO TORRID ROMANCE

    Introducing love scenes into business—unless the business is that of making motion picture films—is not the sort of thing that pays dividends. Christopher Turner is a Brisbane business man, who reckons that he has discovered that muck anyhow. He wrote a letter to a lady saying that an admixture of romance and business had produced a ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 1,520 words
  3. OUT AGAIN, IN AGAIN

    To be fed for a fortnight, to be given a haven and a [?]elter, an! then to bite the hand that fed him by stealing his benefactor'. [?]oney is the record of Alexander Robertson, who lately roamed around the Toowoomba district. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 436 words
  4. ENGLISH LASSIE'S LAPSE

    It was the spirit of adventure that prompted Irene Yates to leave Old England at the age of 19, to seek her fortune in Queensland, and it was the love of finery that two years later brought her before Mr. W. E. H. Ferguson, P.M., at the Police ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 421 words
  5. COMMITTED

    The second stage of the little affair between the attractive young Mrs. Ellen Trask and the weighty horse owner, Eric Guster, ...

    Article : 203 words
  6. TIME NO OBJECT

    It took only a matter of a few minutes to blow up the C.I.B. building, but it is taking weeks to put all the evidence of Albert ...

    Article : 215 words
  7. PLANNED ROBBERY

    A very audacious and cunning attempt was made recently to rob the Limbless Soldiers' Association of a couple of hundred pounds ...

    Article : 228 words
  8. WITH PENKNIFE

    A casual operation performed below the floating rib with a penknife was the injury allegedly inflicted on Stephen Orloff by a ...

    Article : 205 words
  9. HARD LUCK HADLEY

    BLOWN up at the war, his store burgled three times and recovered goods wiped out in the C.I.B. bombing, Claud Hadley seemed the unluckiest man in Queensland. "Truth" tested it by buying him a ticket in Casket ...

    Article : 127 words
  10. DRIVEN BY DOPE

    The curse of cocaine holds Frank Walter Millington Cain, an accountant, in its grip, and according to his own tale, was responsible for spurring him on to write a worthless cheque for £14. Trembling from shaken nerves, he faced Magistrate ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 800 words
  11. HE WAS SADE, AND SAD

    When a policeman says "Move on" it is usually the best policy to get a move on. If, however, you feel yourself superior to the law, read what happened to Jacob Joseph Sade, and "Stop, look, arid listen." ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 546 words
  12. HOW GAOL SENTENCES CONTRACT WASTING DISEASE

    Probably it is only in Queensland that citizens can have the rather unusual experience of seeing criminals sentenced to long terms of imprisonment one year and wandering about the streets the next year. ...

    Article : 960 words
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