Australian newspapers
1803 – 1954
Old Local Papers
Every story
read free on Trove

These are historical newspapers. Some stories use language and express views that are offensive today.

← The wars & local soldiers, all years

New England · The wars & local soldiers

The wars & local soldiers, 1889

7 stories in New England's papers

War Vote

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 25 January 1889 · page 4

The French Chamber of Deputies has passed an army increase bill, by which three millions of men are secured for active service in the army…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

Veteran Soldiers

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 4 June 1889 · page 7

THE majority of Prussian FieldMarshals have been old men; yet even among Prussian Field-Marshals Hellmuth Karl Bernhard,…

Continued on Trove, page 7 →

The War Cloud in Europe. War Predicted in the Spring. London, June 14

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 18 June 1889 · page 4

STATE officials and the Press in Berlin express grave distrust as to the intentions of Russia. They fear that the Czar has entered upon a new period of activity in…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

Our Story. a Soldier's Wife. Chaper 1

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 1 October 1889 · page 3

"Little thinks the townsman's wife, As at home she tarries, What may be the lassie's life Whom a soldier marries?"…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

Our Story. a Soldier's Wife. (Concluded from our last issue.) Chapter Ii

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 4 October 1889 · page 7

"Whose coral groves and bowers of spice Might form a Peri's Paradise; But crimson now her rivers ran With human blood." MOORE…

Continued on Trove, page 7 →

Our Story. a Soldier's Wife. (Concluded, from, last Friday's issue.) Chapter Iii

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 11 October 1889 · page 3

"Cannon to the right of them, Cannon to the left of them." Boom!—boom! Was it thunder in the distance? No the sky was clear and…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

Story of a Wounded Finger

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 6 December 1889 · page 7

CUMBERLAND Island comes to the fore with a pietty little romance, which emphasises the fact that girls who want good husbands…

Continued on Trove, page 7 →