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The wars & local soldiers, 1929

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Shot in Head. Dance Hall Attendant Wounded. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 1 January 1929 · page 5

Joseph Bragg, 24, a dance hall attendant, was admitted to Sydney Hospital early to-day with a bullet wound in the head…

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Air War on Worms

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 1 January 1929 · page 6

Since 1909 the bud worm has robbed Canada of millions of pounds, Every means known to science are being tried in an effort to exterminate the…

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Boy Wounded. Pea-rifle Discharged. Youth Arrested

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 2 January 1929 · page 3

Within eight of his home, Hilary Williams, aged nine years, of High Gate-street, Ashburton (Vic.). was seriously wounded in the abdomen by…

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Boy Wounded by Pearifle Bullet a Youth Arrested

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 2 January 1929 · page 2

Within sight of his home, Hilary Williams, aged nine years, of Ashburton (Vic), was seriously wounded in the by a pea-rifle bullet yesterday…

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War Indemnities. a False Impression. Berlin, Jan. 2

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 3 January 1929 · page 5

There is a chorus of resentful criticism in the Press, all parties declaring Mr. Parker Gilbert's report as unjustifiedly optimistic and giving…

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War Indemnities Germany's Ability to Pay. the Rhineland Problem. London, Jan. 1

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 3 January 1929 · page 8

In view of the discussions on reparations now pending there was a significance in certain observations made by President von Hindenburg…

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Soldier Settlers

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 3 January 1929 · page 4

Mr. Baddeley, M.L.A., has made representations to the Minister for Lands on behalf of the soldier settlers at Denman and other parts of…

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Pacific War Mobilisation of Working Classes

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 4 January 1929 · page 3

Reference to the proposed Russian Red Conference at Vladivostock in August is contained in the December number of the "Pan-Pacific Worker,"…

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Hard Times. Denman Soldier Settlers

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 4 January 1929 · page 1

Mr. Baddeley, M.L.A., has made representations to the Minister for Lands on behalf of the soldier, settlers at Denman and other parts of that…

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Soldier Settlers at Denman

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 4 January 1929 · page 4

Mr. Baddeley, M.L.A. has made representations to the Minister for Lands on belief of the Soldier Settlers at Denman and other parts of that…

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Boy Wounded. Pea-rifle Discharges.youth Arrested

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 5 January 1929 · page 6

Within sight of his home, Hilary Williams, aged nine years, of High Gate-street, Ashburton. (Vic), was seriously wounded in the abdomen by…

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Shot in Head. Dance Hall Attendant Wounded. Sydney

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 5 January 1929 · page 16

Joseph Bragg, 24, a dance hall attendant, was admitted to Sydney Hospital early to-day with a bullet wound In the head…

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War Graves. Kept in Good Order. Sydney

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 5 January 1929 · page 14

Councillor R. Hamilton chairman of the Eidevold Shire Council Queensland who returned to sydney to-day from a world tour said that the…

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Shipping War Britain and America New York, Dec. 30

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 5 January 1929 · page 13

What is regarded in some quarters as tantamount to a shipping war between Britain and the United States for the South American trade has…

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Afghan War Omar Bids for Crown. British Legation Suffers. Calcutta, Jan. 4

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 5 January 1929 · page 7

Prince Sirdar Murammad Omar Khan, a member of a branch of the Afghan Royal Family that are rivals of King Amanullah, escaped from…

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Shipping War. U.S. and Cunard Line. Post Office Butts In. Montreal, Jan. 4

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 5 January 1929 · page 6

A further development in the shipping war has taken place, and the New York Post Office Department has issued an order withdrawing…

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War Pensioners, Two and a Half Million in France. Vote of £42,000,000. LONDON, Dec. 27

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 5 January 1929 · page 12

Two million four hundred thousand persons, of more than 6 per cent, of the population of Franco, are still war pensioners, of which 625,000 are…

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Poison Gas in War Cowardly and Criminal

Singleton Argus · Monday 7 January 1929 · page 3

Frankfort, Sunday. Madame Naima Sahlborn, of Stockholm, presided at the International Conference on Modern Methods of Warfare, convoked by the…

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Broken Leg. Soldier's Terrible Ordeal

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 7 January 1929 · page 6

Remarkable resource was shown by John Milburn, a returned soldier, who carries on mixed farming at Cockatoo (Vic.)…

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Weston Soldiers' Setlement

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 7 January 1929 · page 4

The residents of Weston Soldiers' Settlement have been endeavouring to get a school opened up as soon as possible. Mr. G. Booth, M.L.A., has…

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