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Broken Hill & the Far West · The wars & local soldiers

The wars & local soldiers, 1925

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Retrospective Pension Granted to Ex-soldier Sydney

Barrier Miner · Friday 11 December 1925 · page 1

During the past three years a member of the Returned Sailors and Soldiers' T.B. Association has made repealed claims on the Repatriation…

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Federal Elections Soldiers' Resentment of Circular in Hume Sydney

Barrier Miner · Saturday 12 December 1925 · page 8

At a meeting of the State Executive of the Returned Soldiers' League, the "Lest we forget" circular issued in the Hume electorate on the eve of the…

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Australian Soldier Buried in England (Reuter's Message.) London, December 11

Barrier Miner · Saturday 12 December 1925 · page 1

Private A. P. Jorgensen, aged 25 years, married, formerly belonging to the Australian Army Medical Corps, who came from New South Wales on a…

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Boy Is Fatally Wounded by a Pea Rifle Bullet Newcastle

Barrier Miner · Monday 14 December 1925 · page 1

Jack Heatherington (ll) was shot in the left eye at Sneer's Point on Saturday and died later in hospital. It is believed that the lad was playing…

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General Cables Apfeal for Funds to Pay Italy's War Debt to U.S.A. (Reuter's Message.) London, December 13

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 15 December 1925 · page 4

Reuter's Rome correspondent reports:— The voluntary subscriptions raised by the Italian people to pay the war…

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Bus and Engine Collide on Anzac Highway Bus Passengers Shaken. Adelaide

Barrier Miner · Monday 21 December 1925 · page 1

A 'bus containing 20 passengers collided with a railway, engine on the Anzac Highway at Gleuelg last night. The passengers were severely shaken…

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Children's Growth Stunted by the War (Reuter's Message.) London. December 18

Barrier Miner · Monday 21 December 1925 · page 4

The headmistress of an elementary school at Blackburn reports that the scholars who spent their infancy in wartime are two inches shorter than…

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Published by Special Arrangement, "As a Man Sows" Chapter Xxiv. — War. —

Barrier Miner · Monday 21 December 1925 · page 4

In the midst of the mental chaos caused by the sudden revelation of Davie's real parentage one thought stood out clear and insistent in James…

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Soldier Settlers in N.S.W. HOLD 8,071,000 ACRES. Sydney

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 22 December 1925 · page 1

Little more than. 21,000'000 acres of Crown lands remain unoccupied in New South Wales. Of this area it is stated that the greater part is…

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Returned Soldiers' League Monthly Meeting

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 23 December 1925 · page 2

The monthly meeting of the Returned Soldiers' Association was held at the Hostel on Monday night last, Mr. H. H. Carroll presiding over large…

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Soldiers Frozen to Death (Reuter's Message.) London, December 23

Barrier Miner · Thursday 24 December 1925 · page 8

Prague newspapers publish a story of the terrible fate of a Roumanian garrison of 18 soldiers at an isolated post. A prolonged snowstorm cut…

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Condobolin Shooting Case Police Search for Man Who Wounded W. HARRIS Sydney

Barrier Miner · Thursday 31 December 1925 · page 1

The police at headquarters received a telegram last night from the Forbes police stating that William Harris, a slaughterman employed at…

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