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Northern Rivers · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1894

9 stories in Northern Rivers's papers

Important Case under the Licensing Act

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 23 March 1894 · page 4

AN important case under the Licensing Act was decided at Warren last week. The defendant, a man named Berger, a storekeeper of Forbes and Bourke, was…

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What Some Publicans Dispense

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 13 April 1894 · page 8

The following case shows to what a glaring extent the deliberate slow murder of mankind is carried on by poison in some hotels. In the country districts…

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Liability of Hotelkeepers

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 11 May 1894 · page 6

"PLEASE tell me," said the draper's boy to the ostler at the Angel Inn, Newark, "which is the trap of Farmer Skelton, of Weston." "That's it," replied the…

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Caution to Publicans

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 15 June 1894 · page 8

EDWARD WRIGHT, of the Belmore Arms Hotel Pitt-street, was summoned in Sydney last week for having supplied liquor to a person in a state of intoxication…

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Helpless Hotel Guests Fleeced by Big Doctors' Fees

Northern Star · Saturday 21 July 1894 · page 6

Many Hotels In the Big Metropolis and In Chicago Are In League with Consclenerless Members of the Medical Profession to Extort Money…

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Hotel Helmits. Men Who Find Solitude In the Very Centers of Livellness

Northern Star · Saturday 18 August 1894 · page 5

One of the most interesting studies in human nature about the city is the man who lives in hotels. I do not mean the commercial traveler or the man who is…

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A Publican Severely Fined

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 5 October 1894 · page 4

INSPECTOR LENTHALL proceeded against William Gunther, licensee of the Burwood Hotel, Margaret and Clarence streets, Sydney, for having on May 3…

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Licensing Court. Wednesday, November 28

Northern Star · Saturday 1 December 1894 · page 2

BEFORE the Chairman Mr. E. Jones, P.M. An application for the transfer of the license of the Bridge Hotel was made from A. J. [?] to H. Cochrane…

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Hard on an Hotelkeeper

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 21 December 1894 · page 2

A CASE of very great hardship has been brought under our notice, and we give particulars, as supplied us, in the hope that some good may be done thereby. When the half-way Hotel…

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