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Cobb & Co stagecoaches ran in Queensland for almost 60 years between 1865 and 1924. The Outback Pioneers Cobb & Co Stagecoach Experience lets you experience what it was like to travel by this pioneer transport on an old bush route, complete with a gallop to ‘outrun the storm’. Here are some fascinating facts on the stagecoach service that opened up the outback. 1. 1. Cobb & Co was founded by Freeman Cobb with partners John Peck, James Swanton and John Lamber. Cobb only stayed in Australia for three years before returning to his home in America but the stagecoach service continued to bear his name. 2. The first Cobb & Co route was from Melbourne to Port Melbourne in 1853. The first Queensland service, in 1865, was between Brisbane and Ipswich. 3. Stagecoach travel was very expensive – about $2 for a one-day journey in 1860. Today this would be about $400. 4. In the heyday of the business, Cobb & Co would harness up to 6,000 horses every day with 40,000 on call for work at any one time. 5. Feeding these horses required approximately 33 ton (30 tonne) of corn and oats each day. During the drought of 1902, Cobb & Co nearly went broke because of the cost of buying and transporting fodder. 6. Cobb & Co coaches travelled at an average speed of 7 miles (12 km) per hour and covered about 50 miles (80 km) in a day. 7. If a coach could not get up a steep hill, passengers were expected to get out and walk, or even push. If it got bogged, which it often did in the wet season, they had to help dig it out. 8. Passengers were allowed only 14 pounds (6 kilograms) of luggage – less than the cabin bag allowance on flights today. 9. Mail was the most important part of the coaches’ cargo. People in the bush relied on the mail not only for letters but for hundreds of items that could be bought from mail-order catalogues. Their parcels of pots and pans, tools, clothing, lamps and more were wrapped in brown paper and brought by the stagecoach. 10. The last Longreach-Jundah stagecoach ran in January 1922. By then, motor vehicles were starting to take over and the railway was already connecting Longreach to the wider world. Later that year, Qantas ran its first scheduled passenger flight, which was from Longreach to Cloncurry. Source: www.outbackpioneers.com.au/blog/10-fascinating-facts-of-c...

Adavale is a rural town and locality in the Shire of Quilpie, Queensland, Australia. The town is only accessible along a gravel road from Charleville in the east, Quilpie in the south and Blackall in the north. The town is named after Ada Constance Stevens (wife of Ernest James Stevens). The Stevens family had the Tintinchilla (later Milo) pastoral run in the area. There is a story that the origin of the name is that Ada lost her hat veil (Ada-veil) where the Milo road crosses Blackwater Creek. Town and suburban lots in the town of Adavale were sold on 9 February 1881 at Charleville. Adavale Post Office opened on 1 January 1881 and closed in 1991. Source: www.wikiwand.com/en/Adavale

Goats make the perfect addition to any farm or large property. On top of being cute, they also play well with other animals and are great around people too. DO ✓ Give them plenty to do All goats, particularly young goats (called kids), are playful and curious by nature, so they require an environment that will encourage activity in order to satisfy these natural instincts. Goats need an area with sufficient space for them to run around and play. You can provide them with an enriched environment by giving them things like balls and haystacks to play with. Goats also like to climb, so providing them with sturdy crates or non-slip tables will help them to express this natural behaviour and keep them entertained for hours. DON’T ✗ Keep goats on their own Goats prefer to be with other goats. They are social creatures who like to live in herds. If a goat is lonely, they will start to act out in fear, boredom or frustration, which can be no walk in the park! Keeping goats in a group is ideal, but if there are no other goats around, other animals like horses, cows and sheep will do. The owner or stockperson will need to keep in mind the competition for food and resources between the species. You may need to separate them at feeding time to ensure everyone is getting their fair share. Source: www.rspcasa.org.au/caring-for-goatss/

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Recruit_(1917) "USS Recruit, also known as the Landship Recruit, was a wooden mockup of a dreadnought battleship constructed by the United States Navy in Manhattan in New York City, as a recruiting tool and training ship during the First World War."

Another photo of USS Recruit at the Université de Caen Basse-Normandie's Flickr Commons collection:

There are quite a few other Bain photos of this "ship"/recruiting station in Union Square. It didn't open until late May, 1917, so this photo was taken between then and its decommissioning in 1920. query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9802E0D6123BEE... www.loc.gov/pictures/search/?q=%22ON%20RECRUIT%22&co=... Here's an amusing one, including one of the mascots, a Victrola, and dancing sailors: www.shorpy.com/node/3562 A view of the ship under construction: www.shorpy.com/node/3561

Thanks swanq, TVL1970, and Art Siegel. I've always liked photos of the USS Recruit, and this one with some of the Navy mascots is very cute. We'll add some information to the catalog record and change the date range. I tried to identify the officer in the photo holding the bird, but had no luck. Can anyone else determine who he is?

He is wearing a Chief Petty Officer uniform, but that's about it. Gizmodo ran a story on it last year with some "then and now" shots of Union Square: gizmodo.com/5988945/the-battleship-that-took-over-union-s...