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The wars & local soldiers, 1906

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Mutiny of Soldiers. Military Fomenting Massacres, Grave Reports. London

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 29 June 1906 · page 2

An immense sensation has been created in St. Petersburg by a display of a mutinous character on the part of the Prebajensky Guards. This is a crack regiment founded…

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Found Wounded

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 30 June 1906 · page 5

Charles Gay, a watchman, employed at the Treasury buildings, was found at 3 o'clock this morning lying unconscious with a bullet wound in his head and a revolver beside…

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Relics of the War

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 30 June 1906 · page 5

Captain R. J. Orkney, of the steamer Gulf of Venice, which arrived at Brisbane on Wednesday from Vladivostock, in the course of an interview, stated that when at…

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War News Censorship. Press and National Interest

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 30 June 1906 · page 4

On the eve of or during war make it penal to publish unauthorised news of naval and military movements. A Bill to that effect, which has been urged by the…

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Indian Soldiers. Memorial to John Nicholson

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 30 June 1906 · page 3

The Viceroy unveiled on Friday; 6th April a state of General Nicholson at Delhi in the presence of a brilliant gathering. Lord. Minto, who was in…

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"Onward Christian Soldiers." Written by a Curate

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 30 June 1906 · page 4

Two hymns were composed during the nineteenth century that hid fair 10 outlast the "drums and trumplings" of modern church music. One is Cardinal Newman's…

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My Soldier Boy. a Brilliant Love Story. Chapter Xxxii. a Changed Girl

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 30 June 1906 · page 9

I was grateful to Lady Aberdour for taking me into her confidence and telling me what it was that was weighing on the mind of her daughter. Knowing what ailed her, I…

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Serious Stabbing Affray. Man Mortally Wounded. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 7 July 1906 · page 5

What appears to have been a very serious stabbing affray that may have fatal results occurred about 1 o'clock this morning on board the barque Gunford, now in Mort's…

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My Soldier Boy. a Brilliant Love Story. Chapter Xxxiii. in the Home of the Eagles

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 7 July 1906 · page 9

Lady Beryl was crying in my arms, and Lord Archibald was gone, almost before I thoroughly understood what had happened; it had all been so sudden, and I had been…

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Yellow Billy end the Old Soldier

Cessnock Express and Mining and Farming Representative · Saturday 7 July 1906 · page 3

Yellow Billy, who had his headquarters in the Wollombi district, was very fond of a good mount, and he was not at all particular whose…

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After the War. Rozhjestvenski on Trial. LONDON

Singleton Argus · Thursday 12 July 1906 · page 4

The trial is now proceeding of Vice-Admiral Rozhjestvenski and. other of the Russian. officers in connection with the surrender of the torpedo…

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Origin of the Waltz. Dance War First Used As a Part of a Church Ceremony

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Friday 13 July 1906 · page 3

Of all the millions who waltz, who can tell how this famous dance originated? The story is a curious one. It is wrongly supposed that…

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A General Slaughter of the Caucasian. Realistic Book Startles All England with Its Terribly Vivid Pictures of a Coming War

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Friday 13 July 1906 · page 3

No book written during the last decade has been so widely discussed here as "The Collapse of the Old World." Evidently written by a…

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Welfare of Soldiers

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 13 July 1906 · page 5

Mr. R. B. Haldane, Secretary of State for War, speaking at Pimlico last night, stated that the Army Council was devising means to improve the moral and material welfare…

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Affairs in Russia. War Against Duma Deputies. Railway Cashier Held Up. LONDON

Singleton Argus · Saturday 14 July 1906 · page 5

The Group of Toil in the Duma declares that it possesses absolute proof that orders have, been sent from St. Petersburg to the police in the…

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My Soldier Boy. a Brilliant Love Story. Chapter Xxxiv. the Mystery of the West Tower

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 14 July 1906 · page 9

For some little time after my adventure with Lord Archibald Flemyng, life seemed togo more smoothly at Wolf's Craig; there was more comfort and more order…

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The Very Latest. London, Sunday afternoon. War in Central America

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 16 July 1906 · page 5

The Guatemala troops overwhelmingly defeated the invading San Salvador army, killing the commandant of the latter. President Roosevelt, regarding the 40,000…

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Central American War

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 17 July 1906 · page 3

[?]ran, in Central America, has declar-[?] Guatemala, a neighbouring State. [?] Salvador and Guatemala have accep[?] the offer of the President of the United…

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Republics at War "The Peace of south America." LONDON

Singleton Argus · Thursday 19 July 1906 · page 1

The Guatemala military forces have overwhelmingly defeated the invading San Salvador army, Killing the general in command…

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The Russo-japanese War. a Staff Officer's Scrap-book

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Friday 20 July 1906 · page 3

The impressions of the Japanese 'Army, which [?]eutenant-General Sir Ian Hamilton has put together in "A Staff Officer's Scrap Book During…

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