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

The wars & local soldiers, 1927

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In Movieland Fashion Fad’s Busy Studio.[?] Fashion War. Producers Insure Al. Jolson

Cowra Free Press · Friday 2 December 1927 · page 10

Warner Bros, take no risks while a noted actor is at work in “The Jazz Singer.” Insurance to the amount of £100,000…

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Glorious War History

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 6 December 1927 · page 2

What is the greatest episode in the whole of Great Britain's long history of her wars? Without question the general concensus of opinion would…

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War on Flies

Cowra Free Press · Tuesday 6 December 1927 · page 4

With summer at hand, flies are becoming a nuisance again. But the common house fly is more than a nuisance: it is a filthy and dangerous…

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The Wyalong Ad[?]rate Tuesday, December 6, 192. a Post-war Duty

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Tuesday 6 December 1927 · page 4

The President of the Chamber of Commerce is calling a public meeting for Thursday night next to consider what steps shall be taken to assist…

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Limbless Soldiers Appeal For Aquatic Club and Provident Fund Public Meeting on Thursday Night

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Tuesday 6 December 1927 · page 7

A matter that should receive whole hearted support from the general public was referred to at the Chamber of Commerce meeting on Friday…

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Anzac Day. Closing of Hotels

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Thursday 8 December 1927 · page 5

I As the High Court has now upheld the Supreme Court's decision declaring illegal the proclamation closing hotels on Anzac Day, the Returned…

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Limbless Soldiers Local Assistance for Appeal Aquatic Sports and Street Carnival

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Friday 9 December 1927 · page 2

The public meeting, called by the President of the West Wyalong Chamber of Commerce (Mr. C. E. Wallder in connection with the Limbless…

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Returned Sailors & Soldiers' League

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Monday 12 December 1927 · page 2

The last meeting for the year of the above took place on Saturday night at the Memorial Hall. The attendance was the largest the…

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Echoes of the Great War

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 13 December 1927 · page 2

How we look back with vivid recollections of those terrible days and try to forget. But, there are some that we cannot forget. There are those…

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American Fleet Mock War Programme (By Wire) Sydney, Monday Evening

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Tuesday 13 December 1927 · page 1

The Washington Navy Department announced that the United States fleet would engage in an interview mock war programme during the first…

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Limbless Soldiers' Appeal Appreciation of Local Movement By Executive Committeeman

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Tuesday 13 December 1927 · page 8

Mr. J. W. Parker has received the following letter from Mr. A. N. White, who represents the Victoria Cross' winners on the Executive Committee…

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Pushing Ahead Appeal for Limbless Soldiers

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Friday 16 December 1927 · page 3

A second meeting in connection with, the Limbless Soldiers' Aquatic Club aud Provident Fund Appeal was held in the Memorial Hall on…

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War Pensions

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Tuesday 20 December 1927 · page 8

Those in receipt of war pensions which are due on December 22 next, may receive payment of same at the post offices on December 20 and 21…

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Limbless Soldiers Support a Worthy Cause

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Tuesday 20 December 1927 · page 1

A function which is sure to enlist the sympathy of the general public is that recently inaugurated on behalf of the Limbless Soldiers Aquatic…

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An Echo of War

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 21 December 1927 · page 5

I have tiled (writes a famous war correspondent), not altogether to my own satisfaction, to analyse the comparative unconcern with which one comes to…

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Room 40: Best Kept War Secret

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Thursday 22 December 1927 · page 1

"Room 40" was the Admiralty Department's, devoted to wartime intercepting and decoding of enemy wireless. It was so-called to prevent…

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Soldiers' Memorial

Western Champion · Thursday 22 December 1927 · page 11

A meeting of the Soldiers' Memorial Committee was held at the Council Chambers on Monday evening, those present being Messrs. Spicer (Mayor),…

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