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Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra) · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1906

349 stories in Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra)'s papers · page 14 of 18

Railway Collision. Several People Injured Slightly

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 2 November 1906 · page 13

CONSIDERABLE excitement was caused at Molong on Friday, shortly after 7 p.m., caused by what was at first reported to be a disastrous collision on…

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Gregra - Canowindra Railway League. Deputation to Minister for Works. Will Submit to Parliament. Sydney

Canowindra Star and Eugowra News · Friday 2 November 1906 · page 5

A deputation from the above League waited on the Minister for Works to-day, being introduced by Mr. t. Waddell, M.P., and accompanied by the following…

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Gregra - Canowindra Railway League

Canowindra Star and Eugowra News · Friday 2 November 1906 · page 1

A meeting of the above was held at Cudal on 27th inst., there being present Messrs. W Bassett (President), S. Whitmee, C Whitmee, A W Swansbra, W…

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To the Jung-frau. an Alpine Railway

Canowindra Star and Eugowra News · Friday 2 November 1906 · page 3

The success of the Alpine railways, notably of those around Interlaken, encouraged Mr Guyer-Zeller, an engineer of Zurich, to venture a railway to the…

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Dusty Roads

Cowra Guardian and Lachlan Agricultural Recorder · Saturday 3 November 1906 · page 3

Many ingenious inventions have been developed tor laying the dust on out roads, but it has been reserved for Italy to essay the problem by removal. The invention…

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Correspondence Public Works Department, Sydney, October 25, 1906. Road from Barmedman to Kildary

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Saturday 3 November 1906 · page 2

Sir,—With reference to your personal representations, respecting the necessity for repairs to the above road, I have the honor, by direction…

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Record Motoring

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Saturday 3 November 1906 · page 2

Mr W. E Hart intends leaving for Sydney on Saturday, 10th inst, per motor bike. Mr Hart intends to establish a record by doing the…

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A Prince's Terrible Death. Motor-car Dashes Into a Locomotive

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 3 November 1906 · page 3

On 18th August Prince Ibrahim Mohamed, first cousin of the Khedive of Egypt, was mortally injured while driving in his automobile…

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Amateur Burglars. Raids by Motor-cars

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 3 November 1906 · page 4

From New York the correspondent of the " Daily Mail" writes in that paper of 27th August :—Automobile burglary, is the latest…

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A Lost Crown. Disappears From a Church. Tale of Marauding Motorists

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 3 November 1906 · page 9

The Paris correspondent of the London "Daily Mail" wrote on 29th August:—A crown which was constructed at a cost of L20,000 when the Pope decreed…

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How Gunners Train

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 7 November 1906 · page 6

At the majority of oar forts which guard the coast artillery practice is carried oust during the summer months, and in order to test the accuracy of fire small…

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The Motor Mouth. Effects on Kissing

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 9 November 1906 · page 6

The medical specialist who recently had the hardihood to assert that motoring would ultimately put an end to kissing, because it made the lips hard, will…

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A Lost Crown. Disappears From a Church. Tale of Marauding Motorists

Western Champion · Friday 9 November 1906 · page 7

The Paris correspondent of the London "Daily Mail" wrote on 29th August:- A crown which was constructed at a cost of L20.000 when the Pope decreed…

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Peak Hill Railway

Western Champion · Friday 9 November 1906 · page 13

At the meeting of the Municipal Council on Tuesday evening Alderman Geddes introduced the question of a railway from Parkes to Peak Hill, and…

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Gregra-canowindra Railway League

Canowindra Star and Eugowra News · Friday 9 November 1906 · page 2

THE many friends of the objects of the above-mentioned league may well congratulate themselves upon having a man of energy of the head of affairs in the…

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Paris Train Collision. Dashes Into Buffers

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 10 November 1906 · page 3

An alarming railway accident (writes the Paris correspondent of the London " Daily Mail" on 6th September) occu[?] this afternoon…

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The Turn of the Road

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 10 November 1906 · page 7

The dust lay In thick wreaths in the roadway; the woman's tired feet dragged through them, filling the hot air with a fine, penetrating powder…

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Wanted.a Tramp

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 10 November 1906 · page 3

"The burgomaster of Windisch-Kamanitz Bchemia, request's,,informa­tion concerning the whereabouts of Johann Loobel. The latter will hear…

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Railway Accident

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Wednesday 14 November 1906 · page 2

The mail train ran off the line at Combining aiding, near [?]emera on Friday last. The guard, John Hedley, while endeavoring, to return a…

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Ballooning in the Antarctic. To the South Pole by Motor Boat and Airship

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 14 November 1906 · page 6

PARIS, Jan. 21.--Dr. Charcot, who has only recently returned from a long voyage of exploration in the Antarctic, is, according to the " Matin," making…

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