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The wars & local soldiers, 1910

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Adding to the Terrors of War. the Silencer Unscrewed. Mr. HIRAM P. Maxim's Invention for Silencing Rifles and Guns

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 17 September 1910 · page 2

A description has already been given in the "Daily Graphic" of Mr. Hiram P. Maxim's invention for suppressing the report from guns and…

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Soldier Blown to Peices. Terrible Explosion in the Breech of a Gun

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 8 October 1910 · page 14

Whilst firing exercise was in progress at a Spithead fort, in connection with the mobilisation test of Portsmouth's seaward, defences, a deadly…

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Aeroplane in War

Nambucca News · Friday 28 October 1910 · page 8

When men find themselves confronted by a hostile army, they are willing to run risks it would be folly to incur in time of peace…

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Soldiers' Love of Animals

Nambucca News · Friday 28 October 1910 · page 8

The British soldier always has a soft corner in his heart for animals of all sorts, and a regiment, without its complement of these would be…

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A War Secretary. a Busy Man

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 29 October 1910 · page 12

The Secretary for War is the subject of a character-sketch in the May "Pall Mall Magazine." He will generally, we are told, be found absorbed in work at…

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Timber-Getters' War

Macleay Argus · Friday 4 November 1910 · page 3

MATTERS appear to be particularly strenuous amongst the timber men in the Bellingen district. For some time the timber-getters have been…

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The War Against Hail

Macleay Argus · Friday 11 November 1910 · page 17

Notwithstanding scientific demonstrations of its inutility, the practice of bombarding thunder-clouds with "hail cannon" continues in many of…

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Two Motorists and a Wounded Lady

Nambucca News · Friday 18 November 1910 · page 6

The extraordinary spectacle of a duel fought in broad daylight in a fashionable section of Broadway. (New York), by two men in…

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Aeroplane in War

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 19 November 1910 · page 2

When mat find themselves confronted by a hostile army, they are willing to run risks it would be folly to incur in time of peace…

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Soldiers' Love of Animals

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 19 November 1910 · page 2

The British soldier always has a left corner in his heart for animals of all sorts, and a regiment without Its complement of these would be…

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An Agile War Correspondent

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 23 November 1910 · page 5

Lord Desborough, who presided over the Olympic Games last year, and is now taking great interest in the efforts which are being made to…

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One Life, One Love. Tonic for Wounded Hearts

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 26 November 1910 · page 12

The springtime of the year will soon be in full beauty, environed by verdant leafage, made glorious by the songs of mating birds. Yet it is black weather…

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Timber-Getters' War

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 30 November 1910 · page 5

Matters appear to be particularly strenuous amongst the timber men in the Bellingen district For some time the timber-getters have been perturbed…

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How It Feels to Be Shot. Wounded Man's Description

Nambucca News · Friday 2 December 1910 · page 3

One of the most remarkable documents ever published in a New York newspaper in Mayor Gayner's account of the attempt to as assinate…

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