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The wars & local soldiers, 1925

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Getting to Grips War Debt Problem Allies to Confer. London, January 3

The Gloucester Advocate · Tuesday 6 January 1925 · page 2

A Paris message says that the Government denies having made definite, proposals to the United States with a view to a settlement of the war…

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Aching Voids Australia's Malady. Famous Soldier on Migration London

The Gloucester Advocate · Tuesday 6 January 1925 · page 2

"It would be folly for Australia' to overlook the fact that the United States is how almost excluding Southern European immigrants," said…

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Allgomera Function. Welcome Home to Mr. R. V. Smith

Macleay Argus · Friday 9 January 1925 · page 4

Quite a pleasant surprise was in store for the local residents on Tuesday, the 30th inst., when it became known that Mr. Roy Victor Smith had…

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Hawkesbury Agricultural College Soldiers' Memorial Hall

The Northern Champion · Wednesday 14 January 1925 · page 3

With the object of building a Soldiers' Memorial Hall at the Hawkesbury Agricultural College the committee, of the fond is appealing to…

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Passing of the Dreadnought. War's New Horror

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 17 January 1925 · page 1

The London "Daily Express" says that the design of the battleships, Nelson and Rodney, to be built by Britain under the Washington Treaty,…

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Wireless in War. London

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 20 January 1925 · page 3

The Dean of the Faculty of Metallurgy at Sheffield University states that wireless waves can be used to melt masses of steel. The high…

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Soldiers' Land

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 20 January 1925 · page 2

Under an Act just passed, every returned soldier who olds land under any tenure from the Crown, whether selected by him or purchased from…

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New War Terror. Latest British Warships

The Northern Champion · Wednesday 21 January 1925 · page 4

The "Daily Express" states that the designs of the battleships Nelson and Rodney to be built by Britain under the Washington Treaty…

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Soldiers' Land

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 23 January 1925 · page 4

Under an act just passed, every returned soldier who holds land under any tenure from the Crown, whether selected by him or…

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Pumping an Ocean Dry. Dutch Engineers at War with Nature

The Northern Champion · Saturday 24 January 1925 · page 2

A wonderful engineering feat is being carried out in Holland. It is nothing less than an attempt to reclaim a large portion of the Zuider…

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Hawkesbury Agricultural College. Soldiers' Memorial Hall

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 24 January 1925 · page 4

WITH the object of building a Soldiers' Memorial Hall at the Hawkesbury Agricultural College the committee of the fund is appealing to all…

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Another Civil War. (Published by arrangement.)

Macleay Argus · Friday 30 January 1925 · page 8

The enormous proportions of the traffic in illicit liquor in the United States, says an article in the Liverpool "Daily Courier." will be a…

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Remarkable Old Soldier. Signs His Name Upside Down

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 31 January 1925 · page 9

Last week Sergeant Roberts, of Bellingen, took into custody an old man who had imbibed too freely. Later he found that the man was…

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Writes Back to Front. Old Soldier's Queer Style

The Northern Champion · Wednesday 4 February 1925 · page 1

Sergeant Roberts, in charge of the Bellingen police, witnessed an unique happening at the Bellingen Police Station one evening during…

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"Look Out for War." Mr. Charlton at Kurri. World Problems

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Friday 6 February 1925 · page 4

Disarmament and the World's Peace was the subject of an interesting address by Mr. M. Charlton, M.H.R., at Kurri on Saturday,…

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Soldier Workers' Preference Sydney

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 10 February 1925 · page 3

The executive of the Returned Soldiers' Waterside Union has decided to prosecute immediately all shipping companies who make a default in…

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Another War Imminent

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 13 February 1925 · page 3

"Central Europe is a regular bubble. It might burst at any moment. Every second person you meet in London has a foreign accent." So…

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Another War Imminent

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 14 February 1925 · page 10

"Central Europe is a regular bubble. It might burst at any moment. Every second person you meet in London has a foreign accent." So…

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Weaving of Anzac Tweed to Be Carried On

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 20 February 1925 · page 3

When the work of repatriation was begun by the Victorian War Council in 1915, returned disabled soldiers were instructed in the art…

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RESURRECTED. The Soldiers' Memorial. Another Try To 'Finalise' The Question. An Interesting History. ACT I.

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 20 February 1925 · page 4

During the Agricultural Show on Macksville Showground in the year 1922, a few well-meaning and charitably disposed Returned Soldiers,…

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