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THE CONFLAGRATION AT CLONCURRY — Northern Miner, 14 February 1910, p. 2

THE CONFLAGRATION AT CLONCURRY — Northern Miner, 14 February 1910, p. 2 · Charters Towers, Queensland, Australia · Trove

Charters Towers, Queensland

Newspaper
Northern Miner
Place
Charters Towers, Queensland, Australia
Years covered
1874-1954
Provider
Trove
Collection id
trove
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Reprint of a Cloncurry Advocate report on the north-west's worst fire to that date, with a full insurance-loss schedule naming every business owner including McCarthy. Full clipping PDF fetched from Trove's rendition endpoint and attached.

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THE CONFLAGRATION AT CLONCURRY — Northern Miner, 14 February 1910, p. 2 p.2 Secondary

THE CONFLAGRATION AT CLONCURRY — Northern Miner, 14 February 1910, p. 2 · Charters Towers, Queensland, Australia · Trove

For “Residence” of Mary Ellen Brown

Mr. J. McCarthy, two storied hotel and stock, total loss, valued a.% £4500;

Corroborates the family recollection on this event ('her aunt owned a hotel [in Cloncurry]', citation 54756) with a contemporaneous newspaper record of J. McCarthy's hotel in Cloncurry. Quoted exactly as the page's own OCR renders it (see the note on the OCCU-event citation of the same source for the 'a.%'/'at' reading). See the companion person.merge proposal identifying 'Aunt Annie' as Hannah Williams (m. John McCarthy 1905).