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Railways, roads & transport, 1912

1,250 stories in Murray's papers · page 8 of 63

Railway Ambulance Class. Presentation of Prizes

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 14 February 1912 · page 2

The presentation of gold medals, silver bar, and certificates in connection with the annual examination of the Albury Railway Ambulance Class took place in the…

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Two Railway Regulations. How Are They to Be Observed?

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 14 February 1912 · page 2

To deliberately break plainly worded regulations is to incur dismissal, yet this is what the Chief Commissioner of the N.S.W. Railways is apparently asking and…

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Smugglers on Frontier. Tobacco in Motor Car. Paris

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 14 February 1912 · page 2

A sensational incident is reported from the Franco-Belgian frontier. A motor car, containing a number of smugglers, dashed across the frontier into…

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The Hawksview Road

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 15 February 1912 · page 2

Major W. S. Russell Clark, wrote as follows to last night's meeting of the Albury Municipal Council: "On reading the estimates of your council for the year 1912, I…

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Iron Quoits. Union Bridge Club

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 15 February 1912 · page 4

The president (Mr. C. Lampitt) of the above club received a guinea yesterday from the manager of the Border United Co-operative Breweries Ltd. for…

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Train Wrecked-eight Lives Lost. Minneapolis

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 15 February 1912 · page 2

The Great Northern train of the Oriental Co. Ltd. was wrecked at Devon, in North Dakota, several persons being killed and many injured. Doctors were rushed by…

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The Brisbane Strike. Dynamite Found at Tramline Points. Brisbane

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 15 February 1912 · page 2

While the cleaners were at work at Kelvingrove, Brisbane, on the tramway line they discovered a quantity of dynamite concealed in the mud between the points…

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The Road to Murray Bridge

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 16 February 1912 · page 5

A good many people in Corowa may have some bazy notions to what body or authority is responsible for the upkeep and proper maintenance of the…

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English Mail Train Shot At

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 16 February 1912 · page 33

Shot were fired at the English mail train on Sunday night, as the result of which a window was broken, a number of sorters had narrow escapes, and some mail bags…

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The Cross Roads of Love. Chapter XXIV.—(Continued.)

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 16 February 1912 · page 9

Mrs. Aubrey had never recovered from the shock caused by her husband's sudden death, and thus within a brief time followed him to the grave. The death of…

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Shots Fired St Train. Narrow Escape of Sor— Ters

Tocumwal Guardian and Finley Free Press · Friday 16 February 1912 · page 3

Shots were fired at the mail train on Sunday night. As a result a window was broken A number of sorters had a narrow escape…

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Train Held Up. Driver Thrown Into Ditch. New York, February 7

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 16 February 1912 · page 41

The mail express cars on a Chicago, Rock Island, and Pacific Railway train, near Hulbert. in Tenne sie, have been plunered by a gang of five desperadoes…

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Culcairn Road Making Plant. New Engineer's Report. the Overseer Dismissed

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 16 February 1912 · page 2

"The engineer's report is the only proper report, we have had; I believe now we are going to have the reports we should have had before." Thus Cr. W. G…

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General Strike at Brisbane. Work Generally Resumed. Railway Men at Their Posts. Sectional Strike Proposed. Brisbane

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 16 February 1912 · page 47

It has been decided by the Employers' Federation to reemploy all unionists who apply for reinstatement on condition that they renounced all outside political…

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Hillston Railway

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 16 February 1912 · page 16

Twelve months ago, before the Parliamentary elections, both political parties were loud in their asseverations of the necessity of opening up the Hillston country…

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Booking Luggage on Railways. Albury Stationmaster Interviewed. Proposed Extension to Albury Platform

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 16 February 1912 · page 2

Two railway regulations, one providing that passengers shall produce their tickets when booking luggage in order to pay the "accompanying" rate half an hour…

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Motor Car Fatality

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 16 February 1912 · page 3

Charles Faulkner, who was injured by a motor car recently on Brookvile road, died in the Manly Hospital last night. It is believed that he was married…

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Riot at a Railway Station. Quarrel Over Wheat Cars. Regina (Saskatchewan)

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 16 February 1912 · page 2

Great difficulty is being experienced by farmers in getting their grain to the seaports. At Blainlake, it is the custom for the…

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Motor Maxims

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 16 February 1912 · page 3

Still motors run cheap. It's a wise chauffeur that known his own speed. A garage is known by the cars it…

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Iron Quoits. Union Bridge Club

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 17 February 1912 · page 6

This afternoon the Union Bridge Quoit Club will play a stries of matches for trophies and money prizes on their rinks at the rear of Flynn's Union Bridge Hotel…

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