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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · The wars & local soldiers

The wars & local soldiers, 1925

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War Declared New York

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 5 May 1925 · page 2

Over sixty vessels, mostly motor craft, capable, of great speed equipped as for battle, have been mobilised at Staten Island base for a war…

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Dogs Save Wounded

The Yass Courier · Thursday 7 May 1925 · page 3

One of the most interesting of the subsidiary establishments of the French army is that of the French sheep dogs, which are employed in…

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A War Every Three Years

The Yass Courier · Thursday 14 May 1925 · page 3

In spite of the progress of civilisation, man remains a fighting animal. Peace societies begin to think they are making progress towards taming his…

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"Square Up with Diggers" Provision of War Service Homes Judge Bevan's Caustic Remarks

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 14 May 1925 · page 2

"Why can't the Diggers be treated as it was intended that they should be treated?" This was but one of the…

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Wounded by Gun Cotta Walla Man's Serious Injury

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 19 May 1925 · page 6

Mr. Walter Howard of Cotta Walla, is an inmate of the Crookwell District Cottage Hospital owing to the effects of a gunshot wound in the…

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War Service Homes Commissioner's Reply

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 19 May 1925 · page 6

Commenting on the remarks of Judge Bevan at Goulburn, Colonel J. M. Semmens, Commissioner for War Service Homes, stated that the…

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War Service Homes Commissioner Replies to Judge Bevan

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 23 May 1925 · page 8

Judge Bevan, at Goulburn, recently commented strongly upon the treatment to which returned soldiers had been subjected in respect of…

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Important to Returned Soldiers

The Yass Courier · Monday 25 May 1925 · page 2

Every candidate for political honors is to-day angling for the returned soldiers’ vote, and it is wonderful how much love for the soldiers has…

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War Histories Essay Competition

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 28 May 1925 · page 8

The N.S.W. division of the Australian National Defence League has arranged an essay competition on the history for the period of the Great War…

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America's Liquor War Vancouver

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 4 June 1925 · page 4

A Boston message states that a request for three additional navy destroyers and a seaplane to cope with ships returning to "Rum Row"…

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Yass Soldiers’ Club Ball

The Yass Courier · Thursday 4 June 1925 · page 5

The ball in connection with Yass Soldiers’ Club, postponed from Friday. night owing to inclement weather, took place at the Memorial Hall on…

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Sailors and Soldiers' Imperial League

The Burrowa News · Friday 5 June 1925 · page 3

"Impressed by the spirit and enthusiasm of Annual Congress, which was held in Sydney during Easter week, the State Council of the…

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Soldiers Club The Tennis Courts

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 20 June 1925 · page 4

Captain A. J. McShane presided over a large attendance at a meeting of the Returned Soldiers Club on Wednesday night…

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Lone T.b. Soldier Goes to Test Spahlinger

The Yass Courier · Monday 22 June 1925 · page 3

The Federal Government, having refused to give official recognition to the Spahlinger treatment for tuberculosis, has moved the T.B…

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Lone T.b. Soldier Goes to Test Spahlinger

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 25 June 1925 · page 8

The Federal Government, having refused to give official recognition to the Spahlinger treatment for tuberculosis, has moved the T.B…

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Honour Roll

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 2 July 1925 · page 8

In loving memory of Licutenant Aubrcy Sirerring, 7th A.A. S.C., killed in action. Gallipoli. 1st July 1915; son of the late Frank…

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In Peace and War Memories of a Great Journalist Mr. Wickham Steed's Book

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 2 July 1925 · page 7

One evening six months before the war there was a lecture at the Royal Institute, London. These lectures are always very impressive affairs; the…

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Holiday Home. for Soldiers' Sons

Taralga Echo · Saturday 4 July 1925 · page 4

In olden days it used to be said that women were not orators, but the experience of our present time directly contradicts the old tradition…

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T.b. Soldiers. Awaiting the Verdict

Taralga Echo · Saturday 4 July 1925 · page 2

The men at "Bodington," Wentworth Falls, are anxiously waiting the decision of the public of New South Wales to the Red Cross Day…

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"The War Is On" Union Official's Outburst

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 14 July 1925 · page 6

A union official addressed about 150 seamen outside the Shipping Master's office, Circular Quay, this morning any vessels belonging to the…

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