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The wars & local soldiers, 1915

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Hoodlums and The War. To the Editor

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Friday 3 September 1915 · page 3

Sir,--In this hurried recruiting campaign through the various districts there are scores of little places nestling securely amongst the hills that…

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War News--How It Affects Us. To the Editor

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Friday 3 September 1915 · page 19

Sir,--Australia to-day is in mourning, more especially our sister States of Victoria and West Australia, Ever since this war for our national…

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Killed in Action. Private Vic. Pinkstone

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Friday 10 September 1915 · page 3

Private Victor Pinkstone, of Mangrove Mountain, who enlisted shortly after the war broke out, is reported to have been killed in action at…

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Our Wounded Coming Home

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Friday 10 September 1915 · page 20

Across the leagues of water, Across the shining foam, The long grey smoke behind them, Our boys are coming home;…

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When The War Began

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Friday 10 September 1915 · page 3

The Kaiser began it seventeen years ago at Damascus by proclaiming that " the three hundred millions of Mohammedans who live scattered…

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Gosford District War Relief League

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Friday 10 September 1915 · page 16

The usual weekly meeting was held on Tuesday and a large number of workers were present. Satisfactory reports by members were presented, and…

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War Predictions. Remarkable Forecast by a Russian Professor

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Friday 10 September 1915 · page 21

Students of the occult will find interesting material in the articles of Professor Cheslay Crinsky, a wellknown Russian astrologer and…

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War Census

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Friday 17 September 1915 · page 5

The Attorney-General, Mr. Hughes, has decided to extend, the time to September 30 for the receipt of the wealth and income cards only…

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Syrians and The War

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Friday 17 September 1915 · page 3

One can confidently say that there is not a nation that is more anxiously awaiting the adjustment of the terrible conflict than Syria or the Holy Land…

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Horrors of War. Frightful Massacres

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Friday 17 September 1915 · page 2

The "Daily Telegraph" Mitylene correspondent sends horrible details of the Turkish fixed policy for exterminating the Armenian population…

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Half The World at War

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Friday 17 September 1915 · page 3

The population of the world is variously estimated at between 1600 and 1700 millions. Over 963 millions, more than half, are now at war, in…

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Gosford District War Relief League. Annual Meeting

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Friday 17 September 1915 · page 7

The annual meeting of the above was held at the School of Arts on Tuesday afternoon last, when a large number of members attended. The…

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Kaiser's Fortune. Millions Made Out of the War

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Friday 17 September 1915 · page 2

The German statement that the Kaiser's fortune has been considerably reduced by the war is quite contrary to fact, says a Correspondent of…

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War Yarns

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Friday 24 September 1915 · page 10

The following is probably as true as many other yarns that have reached us from the front:--A New Zealand private captured a Turkish prisoner…

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War Census. Further Returns Required

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Friday 24 September 1915 · page 18

It is notified in the "Commonwealth Gazette" that every male within the Commonwealth who attains the age of 18 years after September 15, 1915,…

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The End of the War

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Friday 24 September 1915 · page 1

A joker named Kilner, who reckons he can foretell the future from the Bible, has been unfolding things at Wellington. Among his predictions…

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A Soldier Family

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Friday 24 September 1915 · page 2

Private George Cunningham, a member of the well-known family who resided in Gosford for so many years, was in town on Saturday, Of the…

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To The Returned Soldiers

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Friday 24 September 1915 · page 5

We bade you good bye but a short while ago, Urged you on the wayward track; And now with pride, from the great…

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War Census

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Friday 1 October 1915 · page 5

The Commonwealth Statistician Mr G. H. Knibbs, has already ascertained that certain persons have not yet sent in Personal cards, and in one case…

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Honest, Defensive War

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Friday 1 October 1915 · page 20

Sir George Reid, addressing the Australian wounded soldiers at Harefield Military Hospital, after presenting three of their number with Disitn…

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