Items of News Holiday for Gold Cup
City Council was advised last night that Wednesday, April 15, had been gazetted a public holiday in Albury. This is the first…
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Prairie Fire Ran Good Albury Gold Cup Trial
Prairie Fire ran on excellent Albury Cup trial in winning the Albury St. Patrick’s Cup yesterday. Leading all the way, Prairie Fire easily beat Gale Queen and Photon…
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Nominations for-the two-day Albury Gold Cup meeting next Wednesday and Thursday are a record, and race club secretary,…
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(By “Artilleryman”) Prospects of a good field in the Albury Gold Cup next Wednesday are bright following the…
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Melbourne horses win many country cups, and I expect old Henley to add to their record in the Albury Gold Cup tomorrow. He retains his form, and is very well treated with 7.13. Henley’s best recent effort was a double at Warrnambool in…
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ATLANTIC CITY (New Jersey), Tues.: Primaquine, a drug derived from coal tar five years ago, has…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Trainer’s Two Runners in Gold Cup
Albury trainer, Bill Butts, will probably have two runners in the Albury Gold Cup this afternoon—Holbrook Cup winner Petermark (left) and Leetona. The picture was taken at the Albury course yesterday morning. Leeton will be ridden by Melbourne apprentice, R. Ball…
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Peelson (K.. Ford) being led back to scale after winning the Albury Gold Cup yesterday…
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Peelson (K. Ford) easily winning the Albury Gold Cup yesterday. Belavia (M. Gray) is shown on the rails running…
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Winner of 23 races from 37 starts, and the only horse to win 12 consecutive races in the North-East…
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CANBERRA, Mon.: Production of gold in Australia in January showed a slight decrease on production figures for December, but…
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SYDNEY, Wed.: A Sydney mining company has discovered a rich seam of a valuable steel-hardening metal in an…
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SYDNEY, Fri.: The central executive of the Miners’ Federation today called pit-top meetings to protest against the decision of the…
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SYDNEY, Mon.: Dismissal of a lodge official at a northern N.S.W. coal mine has led to the threat of Australia-wide strike action by coal miners. Today, 39 N.S.W. coal mines were idle for a loss of almost 25,000…
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ANGANGUEO (Mexico), Monday: Hundreds of Indians knelt in prayer at the mouth of the Conquistador silver mine, 105…
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DARWIN, Mini.: White ants have completely destroyed all the equipment of a mining squad. The equipment had been placed…
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AMGANGUEO (Mexico), Tues.: All hope has now been abandoned for eight miners trapped in silver, mine last Saturday,…
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SYDNEY, Tues.: The wave of stoppages on N.S.W. coalfields has caused a fall in the stocks of coal held by the…
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Sydney horse Two Birdies, desperately ridden by T. MuIIane, got up in the lost few strides to dead-[?] with the Albury Cup runner-up, Wangaratta-owned and trained Belavia in the Wagga Gold Cup yesterday…
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SYDNEY Wed.: Virtual absence of petroleum and natural gas in Australia made coal the only local raw material for power for…
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