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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1909

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Tubbul Railway League

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 27 February 1909 · page 2

THE Tubbul Hotel on Saturday last held a large and representative gathering at the meeting of the Railway League. Mr. W. T. Lewis occupied the chair and there…

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Railways and Tramways

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 2 March 1909 · page 2

The railway revenue has expanded this financial year to the amount of £151,162. When side by side with this there is an increase of £259,507 in the working expenses…

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Cycling and Motoring. (From the Dunlop Rubber Co.)

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 2 March 1909 · page 4

From the present appearance the history of the English Cycle trade is going to be repeated in not only the English but throughout the…

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The Face at the Window. Peeping on a Train Results in Death

The Young Chronicle · Wednesday 3 March 1909 · page 3

While travelling in a train from Lower Edmonton, on the Great Eastern Railway, a woman named Maggie Murphy suddenly started up and exclaimed to…

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Motor Omnibus Runs Amok. Scene in Birmingham

The Young Chronicle · Wednesday 3 March 1909 · page 4

The motor omnibuses on the Edgbaston route, Birmingham, run with pleasing, smoothness, and apparently the drivers have them under perfect…

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Aeroplane Accident. London, March 2

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 4 March 1909 · page 4

Owing to a propeller, becoming entangled in the starting machine of Mr. Wilbur Wright's aeroplane, it was thrown to the ground and damaged. Mr. Wright and a pasenger were not…

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Nature's Fight with Railways

The Burrowa News · Friday 5 March 1909 · page 5

Nature appears to have an especial studge against railways that come and spil her work, and has many methods of her own wherewith she may combat…

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Woman Chaffeur. Professional Lady Motor Driver

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 5 March 1909 · page 3

They lady chauffeur has arrived. We have had lady lawyers, lady doctors, lady porters, and lady barbers, but the fair maid who dons a big coat and a…

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Woman Chaffeur. Professional Lady Motor Driver

The Young Chronicle · Saturday 6 March 1909 · page 5

The lady chauffeur has arrived. We have had lady lawyers, lady doctors, lady porters, and lady barbers, but the fair maid who dons a big coat and a…

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Sweating on the Railways

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 9 March 1909 · page 2

Albury, Monday.—The local Labour League has received a letter from Mr. Neil Nielsen, secretary of tile State Labour Party in the Legislative Assembly in reply to one sent to the party bringing under its…

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Cycling and Motoring. Adelaide to Sydney

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 9 March 1909 · page 4

The Dunlop Rubber Co., who will at Easter time carry out their big Despatch Ride under the auspicies of the Commonwealth…

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Over an Embankment. Express Train Falls. Only One Death

The Young Chronicle · Wednesday 10 March 1909 · page 4

While running at the rate of a mile a minute all Eric Railroad train carrying 150 passengers, including many New York professional and…

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Church and Stage. "A Bridge Across the Chasm." Actors' Church Union. British and American Societies

The Young Chronicle · Wednesday 10 March 1909 · page 5

In June, 1899, the Actors' Church Alliance of America was formed, with Bishop Potter, Bishop of Now York, as president. A little later a kindred…

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Railway Athletic Club

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 11 March 1909 · page 2

A large and enthusiastic meeting of Loco. employees was held at Gleeson's Railway Hotel on Wednesday evening to form an athletic club. A club was formed…

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Discovery of Secrets for Aeroplane Flights

The Burrowa News · Friday 12 March 1909 · page 5

Dr. Rene Quinton, of Frances, has offered a prize of 10,000 francs for an aeroplane that will that for five minutes in the air unpropelied and with its…

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Sir Frederick Bridge. Some of His Witticisms

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 12 March 1909 · page 3

Sir Frederick Bridge is the subject of a paper in the January "Woman at Home," and the writer, Mr. Matthew Cripps, gives some examples of…

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Sir Frederick Bridge. Some of His Witticisms

The Young Chronicle · Saturday 13 March 1909 · page 5

Sir Frederick Bridge is the subject of a paper in the January "Woman at Home," and the writer, Mr Matthew Cripps, gives some examples of…

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Railway Employees

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 16 March 1909 · page 4

A meeting of railway employees was held in the Oddfellows' Hall on Saturday evening. There was an attendance of about thirty, Alderman Rogers occupying the chair in the early part of…

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Cycling and Motoring Notes. (From the Dunlop Rubber Co.)

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 16 March 1909 · page 4

Messrs. G- R. Broadbent, S. H. Day and H. B. James, three well-known Melbourne motorists, drove across from Adelaide to Melbourne…

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Pera Bridge Where the World Goes By

The Young Chronicle · Wednesday 17 March 1909 · page 4

Would that we might go Eastward, you and I, And stand again on Pera Bridge to see the world go by. At Pera all the nations meet:…

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