“Accidentally falling 30 feet from his bedroom at the Story Bridge Hotel, Kangaroo Point [Brisbane], about 11 o’clock last night, David McCandlish, 32, a rivetter, was seriously injured. Three years ago a man fell from the same room on the… Read More ›
CROCODILE IN STREET ATTACKS A CONSTABLE. BRISBANE, Friday. While two constables were walking along the main street of Townsville early yesterday morning, a crocodile, three and a half feet long, suddenly rose from the gutter, and snapped at a leg… Read More ›
Rocklea’s skeleton in the closet By MICK ROBERTS© FOR a pub that has served up beer for more than a century, there’s sure to be a few good yarns, and a skeleton or two in the closest, when researching its… Read More ›
ARSON SUSPECTED Hotel At Mungungo DEBRIS AND KEROSENE What is believed to be an attempt at arson occurred at Mungungo on New Years Eve, and only for timely intervention the Waratah Hotel would be in ruins. The husband of the… Read More ›
Four Commercial Hotels on Chinchilla site By MICK ROBERTS © IT’S probably not a good idea to build on top of an Aboriginal burial site, as can be contested by a pub on Queensland’s Darling Downs. The Commercial Hotel has… Read More ›
Great Northern Breweries are placing on the market a new and local brand of stout. It will be in all hotels today and is said to be “of very mild quality and suitable for rebuilding the constitutions of invalids”. Those… Read More ›
DURING the reading of an affidavit at the Supreme Court, Townsville, it was stated that a certain person was a strict teetotaller. Mr. Justice Chubb thereupon said: “I very much admire him. I wish I were a teetotaller too. I… Read More ›
BRISBANE, Wed: When the minesweeper Warrnambool was sunk by a mine off Queensland last September, her captain, Commander A. J. Travis, little thought that he would retrieve anything from the wreck. However, a diver was recently sent to examine the… Read More ›
– The Sun (Sydney, NSW) Monday 25 March 1946
SCENE 2.— The Kerb Queue for the workers’ hour. Scene 1 was difficult to photograph. In it the players are the door-huddlers. Over the weeks they have managed so to perfect their role that even the patrolling policeman often… Read More ›