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Railways, roads & transport, 1909

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Sydney Agency American Railways

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 25 June 1909 · page 5

The Western American Railway Companies are opening an agency in Sydney, with Mr. Sproul, late of the Oceanic, as manager…

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Motor Car Driving Chains

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 25 June 1909 · page 3

Motor-car driving chains rarely receive sufficient attention to prevent undue wear. they are more exposed to dust and gut than any other wearing parts, and mere…

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The Tramway Men

The Scone Advocate · Friday 25 June 1909 · page 2

THE railway and tramway men are not yet satisfied? Would they ever be? Is it possible to satisfy the insatiable? Not that the men…

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Railway Crossings

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 26 June 1909 · page 2

SIR,—Your Wednesday's issue contains a letter from "Resident" with regard to the above. His suggestions, if carried out, would be of immense…

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The Railway and the College to the Editor

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 26 June 1909 · page 4

Sir ,— We are told that Nero fiddled while burned. Nero was mad. But he made history It is a for cry from Rome to Maitland. But while Rome had but one…

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Werris Creek Railway. Inspection From Dubbo

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 26 June 1909 · page 5

The two delegates, Messes. Craig and Wake, who were deputed to make a tour of the country between Dubbo and Werris Creek, and to report as to the suitability…

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The North Coast Railway Good Headway

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 26 June 1909 · page 9

With the exception that there were a few days of enforced idleness, on account of the recent rains, work on the first section of the North Coast Railway has…

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Correspondence. the Race for Railways. [To the Editor.]

Cessnock Express and Mining and Farming Representative · Saturday 26 June 1909 · page 3

Sir,—In a recent issue an article appeared upon the above subject, and also an address delivered at Broke, by Mr. Fallice, M.P. with the greater…

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Railway Station in Darkness

Cessnock Express and Mining and Farming Representative · Saturday 26 June 1909 · page 2

The East Greta Railway Co., which has advanced by leaps and bounds in the estimation of the travelling public for the excellence of its service between…

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Trading in Railway Tickets Dealer Heavily Fined. (By Telegraph). Sydney

Singleton Argus · Saturday 26 June 1909 · page 4

At a city police court this morning, Jack Moriarty, who occupies an office in Pitt-street was fined £10, in default four months imprisonment, for having sold…

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Bishop's Bridge

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 28 June 1909 · page 2

The monthly meeting of Bishop's Bridge and Sawyer's Gully Progress Committee was held at Mr. Moore's Hotel on Monday evening last. The president (Mr. W…

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Mail Train "Held Up." Daring Outrage by Armed Bandits

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 29 June 1909 · page 5

Six masked bandits stopped and robbed the Overland Limited Express, the . best mall train on the Union Pacific lino, in a deep cutting five miles west of Omaha, at…

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Letter to the Editor. Railway Workshops

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 29 June 1909 · page 8

Sir,—Your suggestion that the railway workshops for the—north should be established in Maitland is well worthy of consideration and agitation. It is 'a matter of national…

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Boy's Imaginative Tramp

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 29 June 1909 · page 5

Before the P.M. in the Children's Court at Inverell on Friday, a Small boy named Albert Robinson 13. years old, appeared on a change of being a neglected child. He had…

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Another London Bridge

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 1 July 1909 · page 3

The City Corporation is considering the question of the construction of a bridge across the Thames between Southwark and Black-friars, at a cost of £1,646,983. The bridge is…

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Motor Falls Over a Bridge (By Cable). London

Singleton Argus · Thursday 1 July 1909 · page 2

A motor car which a St. Petersburg millionaire and his chauffeur were test ing fell over a bridge in Moscow and both the occupants were killed…

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A Youthful Romance. Boys' Imaginative Tramp

Singleton Argus · Thursday 1 July 1909 · page 1

In the Children's Court. Inverell, a small boy, named Albert Robinson, 13 years old, appeared on a charge of being a neglected child. He had been found…

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By Motor to Sydney

Singleton Argus · Thursday 1 July 1909 · page 2

Mt R. R. Dangar, driven by Mr J. W. B. Waterhouse, left Singleton yesterday morning in Mr Dangar's 25 h.p. motor car on a trip to Sydney. The party…

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Letter to the Editor. Homeville-east Great Road

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 2 July 1909 · page 7

Sir,— I wish to draw the attention of the. public of West Maitland to the manner in which we are treated by the Borough Council of West Maitland in regard to our…

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A Youthful Romance. Boy's Imaginative Tramp. Inverell

The Scone Advocate · Friday 2 July 1909 · page 2

BEFORE the P.M. in the Children's Court on Friday a small boy, named Albert Robinson, 13 years old, appeared on a charge of being a neglected…

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