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The wars & local soldiers, 1908

362 stories in Murray's papers · page 10 of 19

A Sensational "Hold-up" Three Desperadoes Terrorise a Town. Several Killed and Wounded. Bandits Eventually Wiped Out London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 25 July 1908 · page 2

A sensational "held-up" is reported from a centre known as Jumaien Plain near Boston, U.S.A. Three armed strangers, who are reported…

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Soldier's Sensational Suicide. a Letter to Those Dearest to Him. "Had Lived Honorably—died Without Fear." Melbourne

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 28 July 1908 · page 4

A sensational suicide, in connection with which there are some peculiar circumstances, occurred at Queenseliff this morning. Bombardier Arthur…

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What a British Naval War Would Cost. [?]2,000,000 a Week for Command of the Sea

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 29 July 1908 · page 4

There is be nation is the world where prosperity is so intimairely bound up in its Nary as is the cary with Great Britain, so that under…

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For International Peace British Labor Party's Appeal to German Workers. Defeat the War Propaganda. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 31 July 1908 · page 3

The recent declarations by Mr. Birrell and Mr. Lloyd George that the question of international peace, and incidentally the limitation of armaments, was essentially…

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A Soldier Off Forutune. a Tale of the Crimea. Chapter XXIX.—Continued

Tocumwal Guardian and Finley Free Press · Friday 31 July 1908 · page 5

"Jack is not dead," she sobbed, "nor Master Charley either. I'd swear to Jack's letter tho' I have not seen it." Her master mentally offered up his…

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A Soldier of Fortune a Tale of the Crimea. Chapter XXIX.—Continued

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Friday 31 July 1908 · page 2

"Jack is not dead," she sobbed, "nor Master Charley either. I'd swear to Jack's letter the I have not seen it." Her master mentally offered up his…

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A Soldier of Fortune. a Tale of the Crimea.— Chapter XXIX.-Continued

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 31 July 1908 · page 6

"Jack is not dead," she sobbed, "nor Master Charley either. I'd swear to Jack's letter tho' I have not seen it." Her master mentally offered up his…

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Soldiers Smoke Social

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 4 August 1908 · page 3

A smoke social was held in the Albury Drill Hall last Club connected with the auspices of the Rille Club connected with the No. Battery of the Australian Field…

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Germans Let Off a Cracker. in Their Pekin Harracks. Several Soldiers Startled. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 4 August 1908 · page 2

A fire broke out in the German military barracks at Pekin.The small arms magazine caught alight and was blown up, but the artillery magazine was saved, though…

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Wounded in a Duel. Fencer Injured by a Novice

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Friday 7 August 1908 · page 8

A fierce duel (says " Lloyd's Weekly") was fought on the 14th May in the grounds of the Big Wheel in Paris between a young man named…

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A Soldier of Fortune. a Tale of the Crimea. Chapter XXXI.—Continued

Tocumwal Guardian and Finley Free Press · Friday 7 August 1908 · page 5
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"And where are they P" Tho steward replied to her only by a look of intense anguish. "Surely you cannot hesitate," she…

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Wholesale Poisoning. Two Hundred French Soldiers. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 7 August 1908 · page 2

The trial has concluded at Saigen of three native soldiers on charges arising out of the plot discovered at the end of June against the French authorities…

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A Soldier of fortune. a Tale of the Crimea.— Chapter XXXI.—Continued

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 7 August 1908 · page 4

"And where are they?" The steward replied to her only by a look of intense anguish. "Surely you cannot hesitate," she…

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A Soldier of Fortune. a Tale of the Crimea. Chapter XXXII.—Continued

Tocumwal Guardian and Finley Free Press · Friday 14 August 1908 · page 5
Also in Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser, The Riverine Grazier

"No, I thank you, superintendent," replied Julian: "if any of the Cossacks should visit the hut, I shall be apprehended as a deserter, and sent to the mines."…

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Cablegrams. (Per Reuter.) White and Negro. the Springfield Riots. Racial War in America

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 18 August 1908 · page 2

Fuller particulars of the serious out-break of racial antagonism at springfield, [?], have now come to hand. The primary cause of the trouble was…

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Britain's Latest War. the Fight to the Death That Will He Waged with Rats

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 19 August 1908 · page 2

At lost rats are doomed. Sir James Crichton-Browne is forming a society, the sole object of which is their extermination…

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Cablegrams. White and Negro. Lynching Orgies. Racial War in America. Gaols Broken Open. by Infuriated Mobs. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 19 August 1908 · page 2

The excitement caused by the racial fights between whites and negrces in the State of Hlineis, U.S.A., which had its origin in an assault by a negro upon a negroes are Immnent at the caies of Rome, New York, and Galveston, Mass, He also states that a large and infuriated mob of whites battered down the doors…

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