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The wars & local soldiers, 1899

257 stories in New England's papers · page 2 of 13

The Queen and the Young Soldier

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 28 February 1899 · page 3

A CARDIFF correspondent states that Mrs. Penrose, of Moira-steet, Cardiff, has got the free discharge of her son from the army by direct…

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A Woman Soldier

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 3 March 1899 · page 1

The American mail brings details of the career of the late Mrs L. H. Seelye, who fought as a soldier in the Civil war, dressed as a man. Live Mary Talbot, her famous…

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A Great Soldier

The Walcha Witness and Vernon County Record · Saturday 18 March 1899 · page 3

Many people think that a poor boy has no chance to rise in England like he has in Australia, but that is not true…

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Taken in War

The Inverell Times · Saturday 25 March 1899 · page 1

HE Colonel came home upon leave the only leave spent up on English soil for fifteen years…

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Preparing for War

The Walcha Witness and Vernon County Record · Saturday 25 March 1899 · page 3

Six batteries of artillery with the newest guns have been sent to Calais. The French authorities are feverishly arming the new defence works along…

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War Ends Every Century

The Inverell Times · Saturday 25 March 1899 · page 4

It is a curious fact, however little real significance it may have, that regularly, since and including the close of the. eleventh century, each…

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A Female War Correspondent

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 7 April 1899 · page 7

MRS. CLARA. BENCK COLBY the first woman in the United States to receive a war correspondent's pass, is (an American contemporary says) founder, editor, and…

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£14 a Second Spent for War

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 11 April 1899 · page 4

THE war preparations which are made annually by Europe cost the earn of £833,333 a day, or nearly £14 a second. This money is being expended daily by all the countries…

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The Philippine War. London

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 14 April 1899 · page 5

The Americans have captured two more towns o£ the Philippinos…

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War Ends Every Century

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 21 April 1899 · page 6

IT is a curious fact, however, little real significance it may have, that regularly, since and including the close of the eleventh century, each cycle of a…

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Men-of-war at Sardinia. London

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 21 April 1899 · page 5

SIXTEEN men-of-war assembled at Sardinia, and created a great impression after the French visit. Efforts are being made by French newspapers to…

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War and Love

The Inverell Times · Saturday 22 April 1899 · page 9

War and love are strange compeers; War sheds blood, and Love sheds tears. War has swords, and Love has darts; War breaks…

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The Fatal Hoar. The Sneaking Hand of Death war Closing on him—He knew not when bis Hour Might Come—The Skeleton with the Scythe Defeated—Now Well from Head to Heel

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 22 April 1899 · page 7

Thus speaks Mr. Alexander Young, 129 York-street, Prabran, Melbourne: "The great advantage in taking Dr. Morse's Indian Boot Pills lies in the…

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C a B L E G R a M S London, Thursday. Philippine War. Sharp Engagement

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 29 April 1899 · page 4

Further particulars of the fighting at Calumit show that 6000 Americans engaged the bulk of Aguinaldo's army, shelled the rebels' trenches, forded the…

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The Samoan War. Fighting Near Apia

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 6 May 1899 · page 6

The Government steamer Tutanekai arrived at Auckland on Thursday morning from Samoa, bringing news from Apia up to April 27…

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Cablegrams London Thursday. America and the Filipinos. an Enormous War Bill

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 6 May 1899 · page 5

Further sucesses have attended the operations of the American troops against the Filipinos near Manila. The campaign in Cuba and the…

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Resignation of the French War Minister. London

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 9 May 1899 · page 5

M. DE FREYCINET, the French Minister of War, has resigned. It is believed that his object in doing so is to avoid punishing the…

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Off to War

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 17 May 1899 · page 3

A train of artillerymen and guns, with a searchligh, has been sent to Johannesburg from Pretoria…

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Soldiers Hill Diamond and Tin Mining Coy

The Inverell Argus · Friday 19 May 1899 · page 2

The fallowing gentlemen met at the Royal Hotel Inverell,, on Monday evening last at 8 p.m.: Mr. E. Granger (in the chair) and Messrs. G.W. Crabbe. J. Gordon, G.B.B…

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A Song of the Wounded

The Inverell Times · Saturday 1 July 1899 · page 6

" Another of the thousand instances of unselfishness which I saw on the battlefield gave me almost as great a shuck at the field hospital as the incident of the stenographer had…

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