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Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra) · The wars & local soldiers

The wars & local soldiers, 1926

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Soldier Settlers Relief Legislation

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Tuesday 9 March 1926 · page 5

Under the provisions of the Returned Soldiers' Settlement Amending Act, which was passed by Parliament last year, the Minister for Lands is…

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End of a War Romance Tragedy Ok Mata Hari

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Thursday 11 March 1926 · page 5

THAT the last of the long series of lovers of Mata Hari, the beautiful dancer and spy for the Germans, who met her death facing a firing party at…

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War Homes Neat, Solid, and Cheap Houses For Diggers Joke That is Dead

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Friday 12 March 1926 · page 8

Stock jokes die hard, They cling to life seriously, tenaciously. And alter they are dead their ghosts haunt the vaudeville stage and…

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Anzac Day

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Monday 15 March 1926 · page 4

Monday, April 26th is to be gazetted a public holiday, in honor of Anzac Day, owing to the fact that the day this year falls on a Sunday…

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Anzac Holiday

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 16 March 1926 · page 2

The Premier has been informed by the Commonwealth Government that it is arranging for celebrating Anzac Day on Sunday, April 25…

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Anzac Day Holiday on 26th April

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Tuesday 16 March 1926 · page 5

Monday, April 26th, is to be gazetted a public holiday, in honor of Anzac Day, owing to the fact that the day this year falls on a Sunday…

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In the Armchair. Is War More Deadly Than It Used to Be?

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 17 March 1926 · page 3

It has often been asked whether the development of the military art, and especially of the science of gunnery, tends to make war more deadly than it used to be…

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The Industrial Tug-o-war

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Friday 19 March 1926 · page 4

Every now and again N.S.W. has its big and little industrial upheavals, which affect the credit of the State, and which could probably be averted…

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17 KILLED, 16 WOUNDED Chinese Students Fired On (By Cable) Pekin, Thursday Night

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Friday 19 March 1926 · page 1

Chinese guards fired on a thousand students who were demonstrating at the Cabinet Office against, the reply given by China to the Powers'…

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Soldiers’ Carnival a Bumper Success. (Contributed)

Cowra Free Press · Tuesday 23 March 1926 · page 3

The success of the Soldiers’ Carnival on Saturday evening exceeded the most sanguine expectations, as there was only one month from the…

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Taxi War

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Friday 26 March 1926 · page 2

There is a bitter war raging in Sydney just now between the taxi-cab proprietors, and the public is enjoying itself in the realisation that they are…

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British Liquor Bill Less than Before the War (Bl Cable) London

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Tuesday 30 March 1926 · page 1

The fact that the consumption of alcohol in Britain is considerably less than before the war, is revealed by the latest figures…

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Bombs for Rabbits Soldier Settler's Scheme

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Tuesday 30 March 1926 · page 5

Constructing bombs from jam tins, a returned soldier who has a block of land near Albury which is over run by rabbits, tied them to some rabbits,…

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An Item of the War

The Forbes Advocate · Thursday 1 April 1926 · page 3

The nett result of the shot fired at Serajevo in 1914, according to figures just compiled by the League of Nations, in co-operation with many of…

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Blinded Soldier Wins Through

Cowra Free Press · Tuesday 6 April 1926 · page 1

At the confering of University degrees, which is to take place next month Mr. Dudley Tregent, a blind soldier student of Melbourne University,…

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Gipsy Smith Speaks to Soldiers

Cowra Free Press · Tuesday 6 April 1926 · page 4

Gipsy Smith, the evangelist, held a meeting at Melbourne “for returned soldiers only.” There was a crowded attendance, thousands being present…

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France's War Debt Scheme for Voluntary (By Cable) London

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Friday 9 April 1926 · page 1

Paris newspapers publish details of a scheme which the Government is considering for national appeal for voluntary subscriptions to pay off…

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Welcome Home

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 13 April 1926 · page 2

A welcome home will be tendered to Rev. and Mrs. Prichard at the Mulyandry Hall on Friday, April 23. Moore and Cripps' orchestra has been…

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"Soldiers' Memorial

Western Champion · Thursday 15 April 1926 · page 11

Since the article "A Motor Trip to Victoria" was in type we have received the following interesting paragraph from the writer "A.W.":—"A…

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Anzac Day

Cowra Free Press · Friday 16 April 1926 · page 8

Anzac Day will be celebrated here on Monday week. Accmbined religious service will be held in the Palace Theatre in the morning, while the…

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