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The wars & local soldiers, 1922

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War Is Bad Business, Even for Munition Makers

The Northern Champion · Saturday 4 March 1922 · page 7

The popular conception of the munitions maker is "a sinister individual with a deep hatred for pence and the pursuits thereof." He is often pictured…

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Soldier to Rescue

The Northern Champion · Saturday 4 March 1922 · page 1

A strange apparition in a crowded Southwark Street gave rise to the superstitious rumor that the Swan of Avon reincarnated had come back to…

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Town Topics. Soldiers' Memorial Concert

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 8 March 1922 · page 4

Mr. A. J. Druitt has arranged a worthy programme for the Soldiers' Memorial Concert in the Victoria Theatre on Tuesday, March 14…

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Soldier Settler's Ordeal

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 11 March 1922 · page 6

A REMARKABLE accident occurred about five miles from Millbank, Upper Macleay, late on Wednesday afternoon. Mr.'Harry Wride, a returned…

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South African Trouble. Civil War in Progress. London

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 14 March 1922 · page 3

The revolution in South Africa is now at its height, but the Government forces are daily gaining the upper hand. Over 2000 rebels and strikers…

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Troops Ambushed 1[?] KILLED, 25 Wounded. Guns Moving Up Aeroplanes to Oust Miners

The Gloucester Advocate · Wednesday 15 March 1922 · page 1

JOHANNESBURG, Saturday 5.3O p.m. The Transvaal scottish were a [?]bushed Brounl. They are mostly former service men…

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A Class War Revolutionary Action. O.B.U. POLICY

The Gloucester Advocate · Wednesday 15 March 1922 · page 3

The constitution of the One Big Union. whic has been drafted by a committee of the organisation recently formed by the A.W.U., the Waterside Workers'…

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Rand War Defence of Central Johannesburg Night Long Explosions Police and Civilians Killed

The Gloucester Advocate · Wednesday 15 March 1922 · page 1

Martial law has been proclaimed on the Rand. The police have taken possession of the Town Hall on the Johannesburg Trades Hall. Simultaneously with the proclama…

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Rand War

The Gloucester Advocate · Thursday 16 March 1922 · page 3

THE TERRIBLE REVOLUTION AND BLOODSHED ON THE RAND IS THE DIRECT RESULT OF THE DOCTRINE SUCH AS THE LABOR EXTREMISTS…

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A Class War Revolutionary Action. O.B.U. POLICY

The Gloucester Advocate · Thursday 16 March 1922 · page 1

The constitution of the One Big Union, which has been drafted by a committee the organisation recently formed by the AW.U., the Waterside Workers'…

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VALLA. War Trophy Unveiled

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 17 March 1922 · page 4

A large number of residents and visitors assembled at the Valla Hall Wednesday night, 8th inst., to witness the unveiling of Valla's War…

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Wingham Municipal Council. a Lively Finish. the Mayor and Ald[?] "Talk At" Each Other. £4,000 Loan Granted. Soldiers' Memorial Hall to Be Built

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Friday 17 March 1922 · page 6

The ordinary meeting of the above was held on Monday night last. Present: The Mayor (Ald. H. Machin), and Ald. John T. Bird, E. MrC. S…

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Indictment of War

The Northern Champion · Saturday 18 March 1922 · page 7

In a book, "The Folly of Nations" Major Frederick Palmer, famous war correspondent, tells how he looked down from a gallery on the first…

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Brandes Flays the Hatred Born of War

The Northern Champion · Saturday 25 March 1922 · page 7

The world of to-day, as George Brandes, the octogenarian Danish critic, sees it, is being destroyed by the animosities that war has nourished…

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Telegrams. Boy Bushrangers. One Mortally Wounded. Sydney

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 28 March 1922 · page 2

One of the boy bushrangers in Victoria, Henry Maple, 19, met his Waterloo yesterday. He was hunted all day Sunday and Monday by the Police and…

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Soldiers' Produce

The Northern Champion · Wednesday 29 March 1922 · page 3

At a meeting of representatives from the Sailors and Soldiers' Fathers' Association, and the Warriors' Friend Campaign, for the purpose of…

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Anzac Day. United Church Services. Presentation of Medals. Sydney

Macleay Argus · Friday 31 March 1922 · page 4

The Prime Minister has requested churches of all denominations to hold united church services on Anzac Day, which is a public holiday. The…

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Anzac Day. United Service. Foundation Stone Laying of Monument. Unveiling Gun

Macleay Argus · Friday 7 April 1922 · page 5

A meeting was held at the Masonic Hall, Kempsey, last night, to consider what steps should bo taken to celebrate Anzac Day. The Mayor (Ald. II…

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Who Won\the War?

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 8 April 1922 · page 5

HE carried out the onerous and responsible duties of deck-hand on a Sydney Harbor ferry boat, and declared himself to all and, sundry a…

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"Physically Unfit. War's Revelation

The Northern Champion · Saturday 8 April 1922 · page 5

In a paper on "Health Progress", rend by Dr. Harvey Sulton, the new president of the Health Society of New South Wales, at the annual…

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