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The wars & local soldiers, 1891

12 stories in New England's papers

A Train Full of Soldiers Wrecked

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 7 April 1891 · page 7

AN incident occurred, to a train on the Union Pacific Railway, at Irving, U.S.A. It was an extra train composed of seven coaches and twenty-five stock cars, and…

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War Pigeons

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 26 May 1891 · page 3

THE following are the regulations as to training and flying in connection with the messenger war pigeons in Italy. The posts of…

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The New War Game

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 23 June 1891 · page 4

AT the Westminster Town Hall, on March 13' Lieut. Col. Ditmas, R. A., and Capt. Mercer, of the Black Watch, were engaged at the new war game " Polemos," the invention of Dr. Griffith, of…

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The War of Labor and Capital

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 7 July 1891 · page 4

THE May number is an unusually good number of Blackwood, and one article in it, entitled "Labor versus Capital in Great Britain," should be attentively read by every reflective wage-earner in…

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The Horrors of a Modern Naval Engagement. the Civil War in Chili

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 14 July 1891 · page 4

THE New York World publishes a letter from & special correspondent, dated Valparaiso, April 26, giving foil details of the blowing up of the insurge[?] Blanco Euc[?] and the…

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A Catholic Archbishop on the Threatened Labor War

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 21 July 1891 · page 2

THE following letter from the Right Rev. Dr. Carr, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Melbourne, appears in a recent issue of the Melbourne Argus:--SIR,--In the hope that the employers have not…

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Soldiers Felled by a Lightning Flash

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 11 August 1891 · page 3

A COMPANY of the "Emperor Francis's" Regiment of Prussian Grenadier Guards, while out drilling early on Tuesday morning, the 9th…

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Torpedoes in War

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 8 September 1891 · page 7

We publish on Wednesday, 22nd April, a telegram announcing that a rumour had reached Buenos Ayres the Blanca Encalada, one…

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The Editor's Column. (While giving insertion to Correspondents' letters, we do not necessarily endorse their contents.) Peace or War

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 29 September 1891 · page 3

SIR,--It is much, to be regretted that Mr. W. G. Spence, secretary of the General Laborers' Union, should persist in his endeavors to foment strife between the pastoralists and…

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Australia's Position in War

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 6 October 1891 · page 3

THERE are people occupying public positions in these colonies who often talk of its hard that we peaceful Australians, busied chiefly with wool growing, mining, and shearing…

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A Soldier of Fortune

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 27 October 1891 · page 3

ONE of the leaders of the insurgents in Chill (says the Sunday Sun), is an Englishman who has had a somewhat chequered career. In the long ago his name was Jonathan Roberts -- it is 'Del'…

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The Actions of Wounded Animals. AN [?]

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 22 December 1891 · page 2

The writer once shot an envelope so as to carry sway the projecting upper part of one of the lumbar ver[?]. the bullet merely grazing the body of the bone. He dropped…

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