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Murray · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1907

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Strange Hotel Customs. They Are Often Unwelcome to the Casual Visitor

The Berrigan Advocate · Friday 10 May 1907 · page 6

There are some very curious customs in vogue in various hot[?]ls and inns in Great Britain. For instance, there is an hotel…

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Disastrous Fire at Walbundrie. Piney Range Hotel Destroyed

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 10 May 1907 · page 25

The Piney Range Hotel, at Walbundrie, was completely destroyed by fire on the evening of the 7th instant. The conflagration started at about 6.30 p.m., and in a…

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LITERATURE. New York's Hotel Palaces

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 10 May 1907 · page 10

To court statistics for a comprehension of New York's modern and magnificent hotels would be like figuring upon logarithms to explain the feeding of 5000 men with five loaves…

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A Licensing Appeal

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 11 May 1907 · page 5

The appeal of Walter Hughes against an order of the Licensing Court disqualifying him form holding a publican's license for three years was upheld to-day by Mr…

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Assault on a Publican. a Germanton Case

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 14 May 1907 · page 4

At the Germanton Police Court on Friday before Messrs. T. R. Hough and J. Taylor, J's.P., Alfred William Wilson, and Edwin Kelso,…

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Items of News. Albury Licensing Court

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 15 May 1907 · page 2

At a special sluing of the Licensing Court yesterday at which Mr. C. E. Oslcar, P.M., presided, Frederick William Spence was granted a booth…

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The Albury Hotel

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 15 May 1907 · page 2

Yesterday the well-known Albury hotel changed hands, the popular "Charlie" Prince having sold out [?] Mr. W. Jas. Jackson, late Western…

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Licensing Bulls

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Friday 17 May 1907 · page 7
Also in The Riverine Grazier

A writer in the "Michigan Farmers advocates the licensing of bulls. This is the way he reasons on the question:— "If a license fee of 5 dollars (L1) or…

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The Hated Women. a Daring Hotel Thief

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Friday 17 May 1907 · page 8

The death is recorded of Vincent Melcine, a daring hotel thief, in Geneva prison. He passed forged bank notes wholesale for years, had a…

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Short Story. An hotel Romince

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 18 May 1907 · page 2

‘ DID you call, sir?’ ‘ Yes; I have been Knocking and calling for sonne time. I am very ill, and the bell-rope brcke…

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The Hated Women. a Daring Hotel Thief

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 24 May 1907 · page 2

The death is recorded of Vincent Meleine, a daring hotel thief, in Geneva prison. He passed forged bank notes wholesale for years, had a…

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Attempt to Burn Down an Hotel

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 24 May 1907 · page 23

The mystery concerning fires that have occurred during the past three weeks at Mr. Herb. Smith's Commercial Hotel at Chiltern was cleared up on Tuesday…

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A Publican's License Forfeited

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 31 May 1907 · page 3

The District Court bench to-day ordered the forfeiture of the license held by Robert Darragh, for Bruen's Hotel, Swanston —street, a third conviction for a…

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Applications for Licenses Approved

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 31 May 1907 · page 21

A. Briggs (mill timber), parish Jemba H. J. Field (felloes and mining sleepers), Gooramadda. R. E. Cunningham (firewood), Eldorado…

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Licenses to Occupy Water Frontages

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 31 May 1907 · page 21

Timothy Hayes, 3a, Yackandandah Hannah P. Clim as, 1a 2r, Yackaudandah Robert Reid, 8a, Tangambalanga…

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Hotel Visitors' List. Albury Hotel

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 1 June 1907 · page 5

From Sydney.—Messrs Selig. Kartzmann, Munro, Burke, Salon. Ellis. Reid, Tacce, Ramsay, R. T. Ball M.L.A. McCarthy. Gilbertham, Atkins. Sork. C…

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Hotelkeeper's Mist[?]

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 7 June 1907 · page 3

A neatly-dressed young woman walked timidly into a hotel whll[?]t the proprietor happened to be in the [?]by. He saw the young woman was shy and [?] to her…

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Corowa Hotel Fire

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 7 June 1907 · page 6

On Thursday morning about half-past four o'clock Mr. Richard O'Leary's Corowa Hotel was discovered to be on fine in the kitchen…

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The Royal Hotel

The Berrigan Advocate · Friday 7 June 1907 · page 2

Some useful improvements to the Royal Hotel have just been completed. A number of the bedrooms have been enlarged, and some new ones erected. The dining room…

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