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Murray · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1914

1,259 stories in Murray's papers · page 18 of 63

D. and M. Railway Co. Flattering Criticism

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 28 March 1914 · page 2

The following is taken from last issue of Sydney “Bulletin.” D. and M. Railway Co., Deniliquin, N.S.W.:—…

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Clergyman's Dreadful Accident Rev. J. Bean of Germanton for Two Hours on Road with Skull Fractured

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 30 March 1914 · page 2

A painful sensation, succeeded by a gloom passed through Germanton last evening, when the news of a dreadful accident which happened to one of its most…

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South African Railwaymen. Capetown

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 30 March 1914 · page 2

In the House of Assembly on Friday, Mr. H. Burton, Minister for Railways, announced that he had abandoned the proposed punishment of the railwaymen…

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Good Roads' Association. and Inter-state Highways

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 31 March 1914 · page 3

Mr. h. Marwell Clark, of the Victorian Good Roads' Association, who has paid several flying trips to Albury on his bicycle arrived on Sunday, and spent…

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Motor Car Turns Turtle. Chinamen's Luck

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 31 March 1914 · page 4

A sensational motor accident occurred on Port fairy road, close to Warrnambool, at 7.15 p.m. on Saturday, when a shooting party of five came to grief…

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Railways and Trades-unionism. Companies Invite Conference. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 31 March 1914 · page 2

It would appear that the report published last month that the various English railway companies had decided to recognise the National Union of…

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Trampled to Death. by Feet of Crown. Tokio

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 31 March 1914 · page 2

A shower of rain was the primary cause of a remarkable tragedy at Tokio on Saturday. A large crowd assembled to witness the launch of the Fuso, a new Dreadnought…

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Fill Out of Train, Injured Man Found Near Albury. Sing-song Concert on Late Train

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 1 April 1914 · page 5

The No. 9 goods train established another record for late arrival on Tuesday morning, the clock on the Albury railway station pointing to 2.30 as the "drunks"…

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How Corpulence Comes. Royal Road to Gout and Rheumatism

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 1 April 1914 · page 4

The late Sir Henry Thompson warned persons reaching middle age not to emulate the Strasbourg goose, that is stuffed with food it…

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Electrification of Melbourne Suburban Railways

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 1 April 1914 · page 2

Preparations for the conversion of the Melbourne suburban railways from steam to electric traction have been in progress for about 15 months, and it is expected…

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Motor Accident

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 1 April 1914 · page 4

On the second day of the Wentworth races, while the crowd was being convoyed from the course to the town, Mr D. H. Ryan's Ford car had…

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The River Murray Trade. Visit of the South Australian Parliamentary Standing Committee on Railways

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 1 April 1914 · page 2

Last year the South Australian Parliament passed an Act authorising the locking of the river Murray from the mount to Wentworth in the interests of…

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Motor Car Turns Turtle

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 1 April 1914 · page 3

A sensational motor accident occurred on Port Fairy-road, close to Warrnambool, at 7.15 p.m. on Saturday last, when a shooting party of five came to grief…

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Balranald Swan Hill Railway League. Deputation Visits Melbourne on 7th April

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 1 April 1914 · page 3

Mr C. Soady, Secretary of the Balranald Railway League, has received the following communication from Mr. W. C. Finlay (Secretary of the Combined…

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Proposed Upper Murray Road. Corryong to Kosciusko

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 2 April 1914 · page 2

Mr L. H. Sambell, C.E., recentlyl returned from a week's inspection of the Upper Murray Valley to Tom Grogin and Kosciusko, New South Wales, in…

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Electric Train

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 3 April 1914 · page 2

The electric motor train, which during the past two months has been on its way from Melbourne to Wagga, and on Thursday last left Violet Town at 4…

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Fatal Accident in an Aerodrome. Two in Thirty Minutes. Paris

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 3 April 1914 · page 2

M. Emile Vedrines, a younger brother of the famous airman, M. Jules Vedrines, was killed in an aviation accident yesterday. He was testing a monoplane at…

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Love and the Aeroplane. Chapter Ii. a Trip Through Cloudland

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 3 April 1914 · page 5

Bill was just about to make a dignified reply when he caught sight of a lantern moving at a height of about three feet from the ground along the…

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Motor Hog Sent to Gaol

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 3 April 1914 · page 45

At the Central Criminal Court, Sydney, on Tuesday, before the Chief Justice (Sir William Cullen), Arthur Brown, 27, a…

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New Railway Commissioners

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 3 April 1914 · page 33

It being necessary to appoint the Railway Commissioners before the beginning of April, the Premier (Mr. Holman) stated that the post of Chief Commissioner had…

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