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Pugh's Almanac and Directory, 1918: CD Pugh's 1918 Almanac and Directory for Queensland, on CD-ROM 1,380 pages/searchable Just $55.00 (incl. GST and certified Australia Post postage and handling to anywhere in Australia). A VERY rare publication that really is fascinating, and a must for the library of any researcher with ancestral roots in colonial Queensland. This Pugh's Almanac and Queensland Directory for 1918 has nearly 1,400 pages divided into three sections. Part One consists of advertisements, an index to ports and harbours, an  index to postal and other routes and the almanac and directory. The almanac lists each day of the year with an event that happened on that day in the past (eg. 9 Jan 1889 - Pugh's office destroyed by fire;  30 Jan 1649 - Charles I beheaded, 11 Feb 1856 - Melbourne Public Library opened and so on. The directory part of the publication is in Part Three which consists of the City of Brisbane Directory, Trades and Professions (listed alphabetically by occupation), the Directory of Country Towns (listed alphabetically by town or suburb), and the Alphabetical Trades and Professional Directory of Queensland (listed alphabetically by name), and more advertisements. High quality scanned images of the whole of the original book. Information about the towns and settlements up in the county areas. Its inhabitants by name and address, together with their occupations. This CD can be viewed by any computer using Adobe® Acrobat Reader™ (version 6 or later recommended). The data on this CD is completely self-contained, and requires no installation. System Requirements: Windows 95™ operating system or later with a CD-ROM drive. Also suitable for Macintosh™ or Unix™ operating systems.