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The wars & local soldiers, 1930

593 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 23 of 30

Bread War Still on at Parkes, Parkes

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 15 September 1930 · page 5

The bread war is still In progress and keen competition between bakers continuos. On baker is selling broad…

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Kurri Returned Soldiers

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 15 September 1930 · page 4

On Sunday afternoon a meeting of Returned Soldiers was held, at which the sub-branch of the Returned Sailors and Soldiers' imperial League…

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Bread War. Baker, Grocer Clash

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 16 September 1930 · page 5

A Parkes message reads:— The action of a local storekeeper in selling bread at 4½d. a 2lb. loaf, has precipitated a bread war…

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Tennis War. Association and Kia-ora Club. Thursday's Momentous Meeting

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 16 September 1930 · page 4

It was stated in Maitland tennis circles to-day, that thoro was a rule in existence to the effect that any club or person wishing to conduct…

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MR. C. E. W. Bean War Historian Honoured. Melbourne, Tuesday

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 16 September 1930 · page 5

The degree of Doctor of Letters was to-day conferred on Mr, C. E. W. Bean, the official Australian war historian, by the Melbourne…

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War Debt. Rumoured Mission to United States. Whitehall Silent. London, September 14

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 16 September 1930 · page 5

Nothing is known at Whitehall regarding the story in the New York "Herald Tribune" that Sir Warren Fisher had been sounding the United…

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Returned Soldiers' Social

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 16 September 1930 · page 5

The first of a series of social evenings held under the auspices of the Cessnock Returned Soldiers' League in the Memorial Hall on Thursday…

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O.B.U. OBJECTION Soldier Preference in Relief Works Demand for Seniority Principle

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 16 September 1930 · page 5

Last night a deputation from the unemployed waited on the Cessnock and Kearsley Councils in regard to the conditions attaching to the…

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Brave French Peasant Woman Post War Commemoration

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 17 September 1930 · page 4

A message from Paris says that one of the most astonishing exploits of the war was commemorated at the unveiling of a monument in a forest at…

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Depression Due to War Lord Stonehaven Says "Over in a Year."

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 17 September 1930 · page 2

"A year hence Australians will have proved to the world that they have got through all right," said the GovernorGeneral (Lord Stonchaven), at the…

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Beer and Biscuits. Counter Lunch War. Publicans at Loggerheads

The Scone Advocate · Friday 19 September 1930 · page 2

A message from Young states that hotel keepers are waging a war regarding the cheese and biscuits served to patrons with their pots of beer. A…

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£600 Arrears. Returned Soldier's Pension. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 20 September 1930 · page 7

After negotiations extending over twelve years, a Sydney returned soldier has last succeeded, through the agitation by the Returned…

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Limbless Soldiers' Competition

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 20 September 1930 · page 6

Recently we published an advertisement and paragraph drawing attention to the word building competition and art union which are being…

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New War Weapons Flying Homes Like Aeroplanes

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 22 September 1930 · page 8

Death, winged and terrible, and despatched from afar; death, defying all defence and raining merciless from the sky on some great enemy…

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Returned Soldiers. Rationing in Federal Service Urged. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 22 September 1930 · page 5

The Commonwealth Public Servants' Sub-branch of the Returned Soldiers and Sailors' League has decided to ask the Government to adopt…

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Have You Forgotten ? Limbless Soldiers' Competition

Singleton Argus · Monday 22 September 1930 · page 3

Recently we published an advertisement and paragraph drawing attention to the Word Building Competition and Art Union which are being conducted…

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"Breed of the Anzacs" All Rights Reserved. Chapter Xvi. The Anzac Brigade

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 23 September 1930 · page 2

Captain Gilbert Fitzgibbons of "D" Company, 108 Battalion, was a gallant fighter, an efficient officer, but a very fastidious man, and inconsistent…

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Australia. English Press Comment. Our Part in the War

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 23 September 1930 · page 2

"What's wrong with Australia?' is a question often heard," says the London "Daily Express." "The answer is simple: Nothing, except that with the…

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Have you Forgotten? Limbless Soldiers' Competition

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 23 September 1930 · page 4

Recently we published an advertisement and paragraph drawing attention to the word building competition and art union which are being conducted to…

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Roumania Excited Secret Plans Disappear. Protection in War Time. London, Sept, 23

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 24 September 1930 · page 5

The "Dally Express's" Bucharest correspondent says that Government and mi[?]tary circles are excited at the disappearance of a copy of the…

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