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The wars & local soldiers, 1926

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Anzac Day Sunday Services, April 25

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 12 March 1926 · page 2

The Commonwealth Government has informed the Premier (Mr. Lang) that it is arranging for a commemoration of Anzac Day to be held this year on…

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The Mosquito War

The Inverell Times · Friday 12 March 1926 · page 4

Having set out on the task with an assistant, the health officer, Mr. H. A. Roberts, has lived laborious days since Monday last in combating the…

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Mosquito Pest Coraki Declares War

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 12 March 1926 · page 5

At the last meeting of the Coraki Council, the Town Clerk reported that, as directed by the council, he had inserted an advertisment in the local…

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Mine Explodes in War Cemetery. Many Graves Destroyed

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 12 March 1926 · page 5

Hundreds of graves have been destroyed in the British war cemetery at Thiepval, which was the scene of terrible fighting on July 1, 1916…

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Returned Soldiers' Cars

The Inverell Times · Friday 12 March 1926 · page 4

Constable Cox, who deals with car registrations at the local police station, has asked to give publicity to a new regulation which allows a rebate…

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Anzac Day Celebrations

Glen Innes Examiner · Saturday 13 March 1926 · page 4

The State Government has decided to gazette Monday, April 26, a public holiday in honor of Anzac Day. The Premier (Mr. Lang) siad…

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Russians Loam War is Over

The Inverell Times · Tuesday 16 March 1926 · page 4

Sequestered on a tiny island in Bering Straits for 10 years, 15 Russians learned with amazement of the overthrow of the Czar, the outcome of the…

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Cutting the Fares. The Taxi War. SYDNEY

Glen Innes Examiner · Thursday 18 March 1926 · page 1

The taxi-cab war in Sydney is about to commence in real earnest from to-morrow, when the Yellow Cab Company intend to charge a…

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Taxi-cab War. Minimum Fare 1/

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 19 March 1926 · page 6

The taxi-cab war in Sydney is about to commence in real earnest from to-morrow, when the Yellow Cab Company intend to charge a minimum fare of 1/…

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Civic Honour Roll

The Uralla Times · Monday 22 March 1926 · page 2

A commendable feature of the Local Government Department's annual report is an attempt to give credit to men who have rendered public…

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Another Great War Clairvoyant's Forecast

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 23 March 1926 · page 3

Mrs. Mary Scales, of Sydney, whose appeal to the Privy Council from the High Court's decision that she was not entitled to the £50,000 which her…

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Germany to Australia £270,000 War Idemnity

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 23 March 1926 · page 4

The Federal Treasurer, Dr. Earle Page, says up to the present Australia's share of the war idemnity to be paid by Germany amounted to £270,000…

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Chinese War. Tientsin Held by Armed Force (Reuter's Cable). Shang[?]

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 24 March 1926 · page 4

Reuter's Tientsin correspondent says that Tientsin has been completely evacuated by Knomi[?]huns and taken over by Lichingl[?]s followers, who…

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Chinese War. Tientsin Held by Armed Force. Shanghai

Guyra Argus · Thursday 25 March 1926 · page 5

Reuter's Tientsin correspondent says that Tientsin has been completely evacuated by Kuonmin[?]us and taken over by Lichinlin's followers, who…

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Sydney's War Memorial Dissatisfaction Expressed

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 26 March 1926 · page 6

The Town Planning Association has passed a resolution expressing their dissatisfaction that Sir Bertram McKennal had been asked to design the…

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Hero-Worship of Murderers Result of the War?

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 26 March 1926 · page 8

There is in many ways, said Sir William Joynton Hicks, the English Home Secretary, at Ipswich recently, a feeling of lawlessness in the country…

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Late Lieut. Murphy, D.C.M. Gallant Soldier's Death

Glen Innes Examiner · Saturday 27 March 1926 · page 4

Particularly sad features are associated with the death at Orange, of Lieut. Joseph Henry Murphy, son of Warrant Officer and Mrs. Murphy, of…

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Bread War

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 30 March 1926 · page 6

Taree residents looked on and smiled while the local bakers' indulged in a week's war. but latest developments have left them gasping. One baker…

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Local &General News. War Pensions

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 30 March 1926 · page 4

War pensions will be paid at the Armidale Post Office on Wednesday, 31st March in lieu of April 1st. Donation to the Hospital…

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Late Lieut. Murphy, D.C.M. Gallant Soldier's Death

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 30 March 1926 · page 2

Particularly sad features are associated with the death at Orange of Lieut. Joseph Henry Murphy, son of Warrant-Officer and Mrs. Murphy, of…

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