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Mid North Coast · The wars & local soldiers

The wars & local soldiers, 1887

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A Safety-match.--Marrying an heiress Queer Things in War

Macleay Argus · Saturday 19 February 1887 · page 2

Men might write for a hundred years of the curious phases of war and still leave the subject fresh. War is a lottery, and the prizes are shot, shell, wounds, and death. Tens of…

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London. the Greatest City on the Globe -- Its Quarters Outlined -- Enthusiastic Reception of Returning Soldiers

Macleay Argus · Saturday 19 March 1887 · page 1

London extends her limits year after year, and her present population of 5,000,000 is crowding every avenue for twenty miles and more around London Bridge. Solidity and…

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An Aboriginal War

Macleay Argus · Saturday 25 June 1887 · page 4

THE Cooktown Independent of May 18 says--The internecine war between the Normanby and Annan blacks culminated on Friday last in a pitched battle near Two-mile, and…

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