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Railways, roads & transport, 1910

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The Comfort of Railway Travellers

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 16 December 1910 · page 4

Railway accommodation is more up-to-date where it is provided by private companies, and most up-to-date where there is healthy competition. Both England and…

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Novel Bridge

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 17 December 1910 · page 2

The city of Toulouse, which already contains so many interesting monuments, has recently been enriched with a new and very remarkable…

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Railway Engineers Restive

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 19 December 1910 · page 2

Serious trouble is again threatened in connection with the Canadian railways. The engineers employed on the C.P.R. (Canadian Pacific) system have demanded an…

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News From America No Trams in Winnipeg. Winnipeg

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 19 December 1910 · page 2

The street car system of Wmnipeg is at a complete standstill owing to a strike. The local University students have offered to fill the places of the conductors on strike…

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Æroplane Accident Graiiam-white Falls Fifty Feet. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 20 December 1910 · page 2

Mr. Claude Graham-White the leading British airman, met with a serious accident at Dover yesterday. He was preparing to cross the Channel and had just…

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Where Are Record-breaking Motorists?

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 20 December 1910 · page 3

No tidings have yet reached Sydney regarding the whereabouts of O. Camphin, who, early on Friday morning last, left the General Post Office at Sydney in a…

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Electric Train Derailed Heavy Casualty List. Oporto

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 21 December 1910 · page 2

A disastrous railway accident occurred at Oporto yesterday. An electric train, crowded with workmen, was derailed while travelling at full…

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Swan Hill Train Service. Final Decision of Commissioners

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 21 December 1910 · page 4

Mr J. H. Stewart, chairman of the recent public indignation meeting held at Swan Hill to protect against the unsatisfactory train service, has…

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Inter-capital Motor Journey Abandoned at Wallan

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 21 December 1910 · page 6

The doubt as to what had become of Mr. Otto Campion, who attempted a record motor run from Sydney to Melbourne, has been cleared up by the detailed history of…

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Obstructions on Railway Lines

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 21 December 1910 · page 2

During the past six months there have been five cases within the Victorian metropolitan area of obstructions placed on railway lines. The latest affair of this…

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News From America Winnipeg Tram Strike. 14 Cars Destroyed. Winnipeg

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 22 December 1910 · page 2

The strike of tramway employes at Winnipeg was responsible for a serious riot in the city. A crowd of strikers and their sympathisers, numbering in all about 1000…

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French Railway Servants

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 22 December 1910 · page 2

The French Government is preparing a bill to provide supplementary pensions for railwaymen based on the number of years of their service. Long service has not…

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French Railway Strike Attitude of the Government. Paris

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 22 December 1910 · page 2

An excited debate took place in the Chamber of Deputies, during which the Socialists advocated clemency to the dismissed railway men. The Premier, M. Briand, announced that…

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Canada's Railways. Vancouver

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 22 December 1910 · page 2

The Canadian Pacific Railroad has placed very large orders for new equipment. Altogether they represent, an expenditure of 7.000.000 dollars (£1,400,000), and in…

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Battle of Bothwell Bridge

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 23 December 1910 · page 5
Also in Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser

The defeat of Claverhouse by the Scottish Covenanters in 1679 excited alarm in London, and the Duke of Monmouth, the King's natural son, was sent…

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John Bridge and Co

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 23 December 1910 · page 21

John Bridge and Co. Ltd. report:— Tallow: Choice mixed touched £31/10 at our sale. Sheepskins: All descriptions evoked keen competition at the best rates of…

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Jerilderie-wilson Road

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Friday 23 December 1910 · page 4

Sir,—With reference to a letter presented by you on behalf of the Council of the Wunnamurra Shire, respecting the proposed deviation of the Jerilderie-Wilson…

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Saving the Troop Train. a Thrilling Episode of the Russo-japanese War

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 23 December 1910 · page 38

The post of Major Chicherin, who was in charge of the military station at Shunhang, on the Manchurian railway, during the Russo-Japanese war, was no sinecure…

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Deep Well. Fresh Water on the Berrigan Road. to the Editor

Tocumwal Guardian and Finley Free Press · Friday 23 December 1910 · page 3

Sir,— Seeing in your valuable paper, Mr W. O'Callaghan's advertisement re well-boring, I resolved…

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