Hazelbrook Helps. a War Chest Continental
Hazelbrook was on fete on Saturday afternoon, when, notwithstanding a high wind and clouds of dust., a fairly large gathering of friends and supporters of…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1915
56 stories in Blue Mountains's papers · page 3 of 3
Love Thy Enemies. Archbishop Kelly on the War
His Grace Archbishop Kelly paid his tr[?]enulal visitation of the Blue Mountains parish last week. He arrived at Lawson of the forenoon of September 30th and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A Soldier and a Man. Send-off to Captain E. A. K. Hudson
The Town Hall was nicely filled on Friday evening by an audience representative of all classes of the community, foregathered for the purpose of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →For Our Wounded Braves. Successful Social Function. Under Masonic Auspices
If prices were reduced for this year's annual Masonic Ball, the ovent lost none of its lustre by the lowering of the rates, the brethren of Lodge Victoria, No. 118…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Send-off to Our Soldiers. Town Hall and Empire Theatre. Enthusiastic Audiences
Despite the hurried organisation, the impromptu send-off to a number of the Katoomba recruits, held in the Town Hall on Saturday night, Proved a most…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Is the War Going Against Us?
At the present moment there is a tendency, to which all of us are prone, to take a gloomy, not to say fearful, view of the progress of the war. The exports…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A Brave Soldier
Corporal Athol Macgregor Kirkwood, son of Mr. and Mrs. T. Mackenzie Kirkwood, "Tulach Ard," Wellington street, Kew, was 20 years of age, and was one of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Funny War
Frank Henson, the youngest of "Katoomba's Valiant Four," writes as follows to his parents:—"I am still in the land of the living, and fighting strong…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Soldiers' Comforts. Some Valuable Suggestions
A "Returned Soldier" makes suggestions to the Red Cross Association are friends of men at the Front interested in providing comforts for them:—…
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Two French soldiers took their place in the trenches—the one middle-aged, who had long since received his baptism of fire; the other a more youth,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Wish the War was Over
Writing from one of the armed merchant cruisers in the North Sea, an officer, who has visited Katoomba repeatedly, writes:—"There is nothing fresh to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sundry Sidelights. Politics and the War
Once a resident of your Mountain city, but now in Queensland for some twelve months or more, I wonder if you would care to hear from are how the war news impresses us up here…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Second Issue of Commonwealth War Loan. £10,000,000 Asked For
The prospectus of the second issue of the Commonwealth War Loan has now been issued, and the particulars appear in our advertising columns to-day, it will…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Mount Victoria's Welcome Home to Private L. C. MEURANT. (Held over from Last Issue.)
Quite a record crowd thronged the platform at Mount Victoria when it was made known that private Mourant was coming home, after being wounded in the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Soldiers and Patriotic Funds
Dear Sir,—It is with the almost regret that I read in the several daily newspapers of the various complaints made against the principals of the patriotic funds by returned wounded…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Lonely Soldier League
Several Mountain people have been assisting the above League in Sydney. Their efforts have been greatly appreciated by Miss G. Nesta Griffiths, Hon…
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