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The wars & local soldiers, 1927

368 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 19 of 19

Soldiers' Christmas Cheer Fund Spent

Daily Examiner · Thursday 22 December 1927 · page 4

Mr. E. T. Stitt, treasurer of the Grafton branch of the R.S. and S.I. League, has received a telegram from the State secretary of the League stating that £100 only…

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Shot in Head Soldier Settler Found Dead. Griffith

Daily Examiner · Thursday 22 December 1927 · page 5

Austasius George Raphael, a soldier settler, was found lying dead in his orchard at Griffith with a terrible wound in the head. A shotgun was lying beside…

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Tug O' War Leads to Fight Amongst Italians. Sydney, Thursdays

Daily Examiner · Friday 23 December 1927 · page 5

An international tug-o'-War, on board the steamer Orama, which arrived in Sydney to-day, led to a quarrel among members of the Italian team, which lost to…

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T.B. Soldiers' Association Appointment of Secretary Complaint by Returned Men. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 24 December 1927 · page 5

Representatives of the Returned Solider's League and Limbless Soldiers' Association, who met in conference last night to discuss the appointment of Melles…

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Hotelkeeper Fires Shot Wounded Man Arrested. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 28 December 1927 · page 4

Just after the Cauliflower Hotel, Waterloo, closed on Saturday night a man named Ernest Hudson is alleged to have demanded to be readmitted…

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Factory Disptue Leads to Street Battle Six Killed and Twenty Wounded. South Pittsburg (Tenn.)

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 28 December 1927 · page 5

Militia men are keeping order to-day, after six officers of the law were shot dead and a score of others wounded in a pitched battle between county and city police…

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£19,500,000 Losses Soldier Settlement Judge to Inquire. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 28 December 1927 · page 5

To inquire into the losses, estimated at £19,500,000. sustained on soldier settlements in the various States, Justice Pike has been loaned by the New South…

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N.z. Dairy Production Shows Phenomenal Increase Remarkable Result of Fertiliser War

Daily Examiner · Thursday 29 December 1927 · page 6

The organised movement now afoot for the uplift of Australian average dairy production finds fresh inspiration in the wonderful results achieved this year in…

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Statuary and Bananas Onward, Christian Soldiers Glimpses of England

Daily Examiner · Thursday 29 December 1927 · page 1

Writing to her parents from Westminster Miss Linda Eggins, of Grafton, tells of a visit to Southwark, where she was one of a League party conducted around the…

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