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Railways, roads & transport, 1912

1,250 stories in Murray's papers · page 21 of 63

[?] on a Train. Four Trucks of Lucerne Destroyed

The Berrigan Advocate · Friday 26 April 1912 · page 5

A fire, causing a good deal of love, occurred on Saturday afternoon on the 11.40 a.m. down mixed train from Narandera to Finley…

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Train-sleepers Robbed. Armed and Masked Men. Chicago. April 22

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 26 April 1912 · page 45

Three armed and masked robbers entered the sleeping cars of the Rock Island "Golden State Limited" train on Sunday night, and secured a considerable…

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Cadillac Motor Cars

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 26 April 1912 · page 46

It is reported that there are to-day 50,000 Cadillac motor cars running in various parts of the world. An important feature in this machine is the absence of…

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Japanese and Australian Railways

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 26 April 1912 · page 35

The Japanese are out to learn, and they recognise that there are some lessons they can pick up in Australia. A representative of the Japanese, Mr. Tsutsumi, it will…

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Linking the Two States. Border Railways Interstate Conference Melbourne

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 26 April 1912 · page 1

Mr. Beeby. Minister for Lands, New South Wales, arrived in Melbourne last night, and Mr. Holman, the Attorney-Genenal of the same State, reached…

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Cablegrams. Motor Bandit and Police. French Detective Killed. Paris

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 26 April 1912 · page 2

Another dastardly outrage was perpetrated yesterday by one of the gang of motor bandits who are wanted in connection with a number of crimes…

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Border Railways. Riverina's Outlet. "A Rational Policy."

Tocumwal Guardian and Finley Free Press · Friday 26 April 1912 · page 3

The Minister of Lands (Mr Beeby), who is at present engaged in makiug himself better acquainted with the south-eastern part of the…

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Railways

Tocumwal Guardian and Finley Free Press · Friday 26 April 1912 · page 2

Mr Beeby, Minister for Lauds, who is touring the western portion of the State announcing a broadminded principle of railway…

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A Novel Railway Journey

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Friday 26 April 1912 · page 3

Among the many entertaining events that have happened during a twenty years' stay in South Africa, the train journey as a refugee at the outbreak of…

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Royal Commission. Railway Goods Traffic

The Berrigan Advocate · Friday 26 April 1912 · page 2

The Royal Commission, conducted by Mr W. Blacket, Barrister at-Law, will sit at the courthouse, Berrigan, on Tuesday next, 30th April,…

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Roughing It on the Road. by G. Elliott. the Well-known Coon Singer

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 27 April 1912 · page 6

Most of my early experiences on the stage were made under some what looking back at the eventful…

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Cablegrams. French Motor Bandits. Four More Arrests. Paris

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 27 April 1912 · page 2

The latest tragic episode in the guerrila warfare between the French police and the band of criminal anarchists known as the motor bandits has heightened the…

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Moama-Moulamein Railway

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 27 April 1912 · page 2

On Thursday Mr Jameson, railway engineer from Sydney, accompanied by Messrs H. Holschier, W. Graham, and A. L. Weymouth , travelled over the…

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Cablegrams. the Land of Tornadoes. America Provides More Sensations. a Train Blows Off the Rails. Oklahoma

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 29 April 1912 · page 3

Several houses in the town of Calumet, a mining locality of Houghton County on a peninsula of Lake Superior, were wrecked by a tornado yesterday. Three persons…

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Boy Under Tram

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 29 April 1912 · page 3

Charles Rogers. 12 years of age, had a remarkable escape from death to-day, when he was knocked down by a tram car in Kingstreet, Redfern. The front car…

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M'keen Motor Cars

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 29 April 1912 · page 2

The necessary alterations to the M'Keen motor cars have now beea completed at Newport, and each car is being equipped with fittings to permit of their taking up…

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The Border Railways. Conference of States. a Satisfactory Agreement

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 29 April 1912 · page 4

One of the most important interstate conferences of recent year was that held in Melbourne on Friday between representatives of Now South Wales and Victoria, on…

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Sporting Iron Quoits. Union Bridge Club

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 30 April 1912 · page 4

On Saturday chief interest on the Union Bridge rinks centred in a competition for a valuable trophy donated to the club by Mr. Abe Nathan, for which 14 competed…

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French Railways Deficits. Paris

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 30 April 1912 · page 2

The French Government estimates that there will be a deficit of £3,376,596 in connection with the running of the Western State railways this year. A loss of…

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Trackless Trams. Speed of Forty Miles an Hour. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 30 April 1912 · page 2

An interesting series of experiments is being carried out at present by the London Country Council with a tramcar which works without any tracks…

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