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TOWNSVILLE – The Town Band, which usually played  in the street every Monday night, took a break the week John Henry George Stokes died in 1918. He was one of the band’s leading cornet players, the Townsville Daily Bulletin reported. Known as Jack, the 22-year old, was a train conductor, and had left Charters Towers on the passengerContinue reading “Conductor takes a fatal fall”