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Mid North Coast · The wars & local soldiers

The wars & local soldiers, 1889

5 stories in Mid North Coast's papers

Civil War in Samoa. Auckland

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 12 January 1889 · page 2

NEWS from Samoa received by the R.M.S. Mariposa shows that affairs there are more unsettled then ever. Shortly after the arrival of the Oiga, there being then three…

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War Without Bloodshed

Macleay Argus · Saturday 9 February 1889 · page 2

It is well known that nitric of amyl possesses the power of causing insensibility in a human being breathing its fumes very quickly. The effect is equivalent,…

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Effects of Mesmerism. Hypnotism and Crime. Remarkable Experiments Made by a French Scientist. An Important Problem in Medical Jurisprudence--Tests Applied to a French Lady and a Soldier--Result of the Experiments

Macleay Argus · Saturday 11 May 1889 · page 2

According to the London St. James' Gazette M. Jules Liegeois, Professor of the Faculty of-Law at Nancy, has lately made some remarkable experiments connected…

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Federation versus War

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 18 May 1889 · page 7

THE tabular statement given below showing the amount of the standing armies of Europe even when on a peace footing will convery some idea of the waste of human energy…

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Another War Scare

Macleay Argus · Saturday 5 October 1889 · page 4

The movement of Russian troops on the Western frontier are again giving rise to a feeling of uneasiness on the…

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