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Railways, roads & transport, 1907

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King Edwards Return. His Adventures on the Continent. Serious Railway Accident Averted. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 7 May 1907 · page 3

His Majesty the king has returned to London from his Medaterraneantour. A very rough passage was experienced in crossing from Calais to…

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Pilfering on the Railways. Goods Valued at £300 Seized

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 7 May 1907 · page 3

Owing to several complaints having been received from city merchants that goods consigned to country clients and sent to the Darling Harbour railway…

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Found on a Railway Line

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 7 May 1907 · page 2

The Victorian police brought a young man to Albury by goods train on Friday morning, and conveyed him from the railway…

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Railway Fatality

The Corowa Chronicle · Wednesday 8 May 1907 · page 3

On Friday morning last, a young man was admitted to the Albury Hospital in an unconscious condition, and when Dr. O'Shaughnessy, who…

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A Railway Accident

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 8 May 1907 · page 5

At the Morgue to-day the City Coroner (Mr Gandler) resumed the adjourned inquiry regarding the death of Daniel Regan a fireman in the Railway…

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Darling Harbour Railway Robberies. Sydney

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 9 May 1907 · page 3

In connection with the alleged extensive theft of goods from the Darling Harbour Atkinson. 31 years of age carter…

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The Howlong Bridge

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 10 May 1907 · page 8

At the Rutherglen Shire Council meeting on Saturday, the President reported that, in company with other councillors and the Minister…

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A Daily Train Service

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 10 May 1907 · page 6

For some months past the congestion of business at the Corowa railway station on Tuesday, Thursdays, and Saturdays, has been so…

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Constable's Bridge at Flatford. a Question for Manchester

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Friday 10 May 1907 · page 8

England is asked by the "Manchester Guardian" to consider whether Flatford Bridge, beloved of her great landscape painter Constable, should be permitted…

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Railways

The Independent · Friday 10 May 1907 · page 1

THE advent of the Chief Railway Commissioner places the country in a state of expectancy. The railways stand in the same relationship to the…

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For Motor Airships

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 10 May 1907 · page 3

THE "DAILY MAIL" PRIZE. There is now a "boom" in acroplane-making in this country, due to the "Daily Mail's" offer of L10,000 for the first…

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A New Model Motor Car

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 10 May 1907 · page 7

On Saturday night last Mr. Andrew Lang, son of Dr. W. H. Lang, of Corowa, arrived in a motor car after a splendid run up from…

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Dooley’s Dissertation. Delightful Satire on Motoring

The Berrigan Advocate · Friday 10 May 1907 · page 6

He’s a nice [?] pretty well ; [?] a succisful [?] an unsuccissful husband ; a five cints-on-th’-dollar failure as a…

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Song of the Tramp

The Berrigan Advocate · Friday 10 May 1907 · page 6

I Wander away at the dawn of the day From the City of Nothing to Do ; I rescue a crust from the dirt and…

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Killed on the Railway Line. a Sad Fatality

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 10 May 1907 · page 23

Mr. Chas. E. Oslear, P.M., conducted a magisterial inquiry at the Court House, Albury, on Saturday, touching the death of John Leuhrs, who died in the Albury…

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Furious Motoring

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 11 May 1907 · page 2

Drivers of motor cars should exercise a little more care, whatever speed they may aim at on unfrequented country roads, when travelling through the…

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Cablegrams. the One-rail Railway. an Australian Invention. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 13 May 1907 · page 3

A working model of Mr. Louis Brennan's latest invention, the Mono Railway, has been exhibited at the Royal Society's Conversazione. The model…

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Albury Railway Returns

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

The returns from the Albury Station for the month of April. which have been supplied by Mr. C. James, station-master, show that tho goods…

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English Railway Employes Great Strike Threatened. London

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

"The Daily Mall" states that the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants threatens to strike on the next August Bank Holiday because the…

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Fatal Tram Accidents in Sydney. Two Men Killed. Several Passengers Injured. Sydney

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 15 May 1907 · page 3

A tram accident in which one passenger was killed and others were injured occurred this afternoon. While a tram was going down the…

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