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

The wars & local soldiers, 1930

197 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 8 of 10

War Thirst Damages

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 15 August 1930 · page 6

An irate farmer, whose watermelon, Patch was raided 32 years ago by thirsty soldiers on their way to the Spanish-American war, is to be paid…

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Books. Latest Additions to Mechanics' Institute Library In Quest Of The Holy Grail: The English Novel: The Riddle Of The Eurasian. War in Heaven, by Charles Williams

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 15 August 1930 · page 2

For centuries the quest of the Holy Grail has formed the subject of thrilling ballads and absorbing stories, but Charles Williams has given us…

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German Disaster Army Lorries Wrecked Soldiers Injured Berlin

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 19 August 1930 · page 4

Eighteen soldiers were injured, eight of them seriously, and fifteen, motor lorries, three motor cycles, and a touring car were…

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RAIL v MOTORS Transport War in Other Countries

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 21 August 1930 · page 4

The chairman of the Country Roads Board of Victoria, Major W. T. McCormack, recently stated before the Victorian Railways…

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IN The GardeN Spring and Summer Flowerings: General Directions: War On Weeds: Vegetables

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 26 August 1930 · page 4

Spring and Summer Flowerings: General Directions: War On Weeds: Vegetables. The time is hero when seeds of all the late spring and summer flowering…

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War Service Home Cost to the State Sydney

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 27 August 1930 · page 3

Australia is spending £28,560,000 or war service homes. The total receipts are £15,444,000. In New South Wales 6402 houses have been completed and…

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Limbless Soldiers

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 1 September 1930 · page 6

A competition will be conducted in connection with the Limbless Soldiers' No. 7 Art Union. For the modest sum of 1/ you may enter this competition…

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Budapest Riot 4 Killed : 300 Wounded BUDAPEST

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 2 September 1930 · page 3

Organised demonstrations against unemployment and the government's alleged refusal to grant unemployment pay led to the most…

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Taxi War? Startling Allegations Deeds in the Dark

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 3 September 1930 · page 3

Goulburn is in the throes of a taxi-war if the startling allegations which have been made are correct, but while there is…

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G.P.O. Employees Returned Men May Go Sydney

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 4 September 1930 · page 3

Thirty six returned soldiers employed as cleaners on the temporary staff of the G.P.O. have been notified that their services will be terminated…

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The Post! Regarding Alleged Taxi—War a Challenge To the Editor

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 4 September 1930 · page 2

Sir.—Re your article appearing in the columns of yesterday's paper with reference to vandalism at the railway station taxi rank the intimation being…

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Soldiers' League Annual Congress Sub-branch Activities

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 4 September 1930 · page 2

Most of the business transacted at last night's meeting of the Goulburn sub-branch of the Returned Soldiers' League…

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“Tearing Up a Scrap of Paper” Lively Discussion Centres Round Building Contract For New Room at Soldiers’ Club Ald. Lawrence Protests Against Departure From Plan

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 4 September 1930 · page 1

Quite a lot of little passing local history is gathering around the building of a new room for the Soldiers Club. The room has been built, furnished and occupied. But the constitutional authority for its existence has to be…

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War Speech In Germany BERLIN

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 8 September 1930 · page 3

In a remarkable speech containing a demand for a bigger army, General you Seeckt declared that Germany's future…

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A.I.F. in Films Foreign War Pictures

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 9 September 1930 · page 2

A proposal is afoot to give Australia a genuine Australian war film. It certainly is time enough that we…

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Not for Them Fears of a War

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 10 September 1930 · page 3

The "Daily Express's" correspondent at Laibach says that italian soldiers are deserting at the frontier and walking into Laibach, the capital of…

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War Debts New York Rumour British Inquiries London

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 15 September 1930 · page 3

Nothing is known in Whitehall of the story in the New York "Hearld-Tribune" that Mr. Warren Fisher is sounding the United…

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“Won the War”

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 18 September 1930 · page 2

Our American cousins got rather a bad time at the Cowra Show smoke concert tendered Sir Philip Game. His Excellency started the ball rolling…

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Belated War Decoration

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 18 September 1930 · page 4

“Better late than never,” Mr. Curtis Harrison must have thought when he received the American Distinguished Service Cross for something he did…

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SUICIDE Noted Australian War Services London

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 25 September 1930 · page 3

An inquest was held into the death of Captain Albert Martin, O.B.E., at the age of 59, formerly finance member of the Australian Naval Board,…

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