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Railways, roads & transport, 1915

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Rain Reduces Roads to Quagmires

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 7 September 1915 · page 2

It has been raining incessantly for 18 hours in Northern France, and the roads are reduced to quagmires…

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The War. Today's Cables. with the Russians. a German AEroplane in the Gulf ot Riga. Heavy German Losses Along the Front

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 7 September 1915 · page 2

A German aeroplane bombed Russian torpedo boats in the Gulf of Riga, but was driven off. The Russians have been pushed back…

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Motor Ambulances. Wentworth's Handsome Presentation

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 8 September 1915 · page 1

Four magnificent now motor ambulances stood in the Victoria Barracks square, Melbourne, on Saturday morning, 28th August, a practical…

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Motor Car Tax

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 8 September 1915 · page 2

A serious flaw was discovered in the new Motor Car Tax Act during the hearing of a case at the Bathurst Police Court, in, which Donnelly Bros., motor…

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O'connor Comic Opera Company. To-night "The Girl in the "Train."

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 9 September 1915 · page 3

The D. B. O'Connor Comic Opera Company, playing in Albury Mechanics' Theatre, had last night the biggest house it has yet had in Albury, and it has had…

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Trans-siberian Railway. Outrage Frustrated

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 9 September 1915 · page 3

According to Pekin advices Chinese in the pay of Germany have again attempted to demolish the bridge over the Sungai river, on the Trans-Serbian railway…

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Germany's Gigantic Plan. to [?] Extensive Railway Front

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 9 September 1915 · page 3

The Petrograd correspondent of "The Times" says:-"The main German endeavor is to gain possession of the railway system from Riga to Lemberg, in order to…

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Alleged German Outrage. Attempted Train Wrecking

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 10 September 1915 · page 5

In the Assembly Mr. Wade asked the Chief Secretary; -- (1) In it a fact that two men, one a German and the other of German descent, were recently caught…

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Crippling War Cars Germans Strew Roads with Glass

The Urana Independent and Clear Hills Standard · Friday 10 September 1915 · page 4

From the German point of view everything leads to the necessity of her endeavoring to cripple the motor transport services of her enemies,…

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Railway Economies

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 10 September 1915 · page 31

With reference to the proposed economies in the Victorian Railway department, the Minister for Railways (Mr. Donald Mackinnon) stated that the branches which…

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Children's Story. the Lost Motor Engine

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 10 September 1915 · page 13

For more than an hour George New-house had been skittering for pond pickerel up and down the reach of open channel; but although the vicinity of the old…

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Allies' Air Raid on Saarbruck. Military Railway Blown Up

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 10 September 1915 · page 2

German reports have been received at Amsterdam (Holland) of an sir raid by the Allies aviators at Saarbruck (in Rhenish Prussia) with terrible results…

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Light Railways in the Trenches. How the French Bring Up Munitions

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 10 September 1915 · page 6

A tour of the French front from Verdun to Toul and Nancy has just been made by the Paris correspondent of the Exchange Telegraph Company, who writes:—…

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420 Tramway Men. Recruited by Lieut. Wells

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 10 September 1915 · page 6

Four hundred and twenty employes have enlisted as the result of the efforts of Lieut. Wells, who was formerly a tramwa6y guard. They assembled in…

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More Taxation. State Super and Motor Tax

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 10 September 1915 · page 6

There is every prospect that the Super Tax and Motor Tax, which were introduced as emergency measures to meet the extraordinary circumstances arising…

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"John Bridge" Waybills

The Henty Observer and Culcairn Shire Register · Saturday 11 September 1915 · page 2

Woolgrowers as just now receiving books of waybills from this firm for the approaching season, and a complimentary copy of one of these, through the secretary of the…

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Off to Gallipoli ! Albury Battery Farewell. Entrustasm at the Railway Station. Rousing Speeches

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 11 September 1915 · page 2

The departure for camp last of the Albury Battery, which has been accepted for service at the front, was another memorable event in matters military,…

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Interstate Railway Fares

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 13 September 1915 · page 3

It is notified from Sydney that an ateration in the Interstute railway passenger fares will come into operation next month…

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Another Batch of Wounded. Arrive at Sydney Young Wife Makes a Flying Leap into a Motor Car SYDNEY

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 14 September 1915 · page 2

The fourth batch of wounded from Gallipoli arrived at Sydney to-day. It consisted of 328 men, of whom 81 were Queenslanders…

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Railway Van Leaves Rails. Four Passengers Injured. Melbourne

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 15 September 1915 · page 2

Information was received by telegraph this morning by the Railway Department that at about 8.35 a.m. a van, in which were two women and two children, ran…

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