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The wars & local soldiers, 1926

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Melbourne Shooting Bank Clerk Badly Wounded Melbourne

Northern Star · Wednesday 3 February 1926 · page 4

With a bullet wound under his heart Roy Tymms, bank clerk, staggered into a confectionery shop in Glenferrie road, Malvern, last night and collapsed. He was conveyed…

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War Service Homes Auditor-general's Report

Casino and Kyogle Courier and North Coast Advertiser · Wednesday 3 February 1926 · page 4

In the annual report of the Auditor- General (Mr. J. W. Israel), in connection with the War Service Homes Commission, it is stated that the total…

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Woman Shot at Wounded in Abdomen. Husband Charged with Attempting to Kill

Tweed Daily · Thursday 4 February 1926 · page 3

ROCKHAMPTON, Wednesday.--Inspector O'Connor has been advised that an invalid pensioner, Edward Tacker, aged 60, who returned to Capella from…

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Cardinal Mercier Had Great Admiration for Australia's Heroic Part in Great War

Tweed Daily · Thursday 4 February 1926 · page 3

BRISBANE, Wednesday.--"The late Cardinal Mercier's gratitude to Australia for the part it played in the great war was only equalled by the…

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Federal Parliament Petrol Prices Dried Fruit Advances War-time Profits Bill Melbourne

Northern Star · Thursday 4 February 1926 · page 5

In the House of Representatives this afternoon Mr. Feuton (Vie.) moved the adjournment of the House to call attention to the importation of kerbside petrol pumps and…

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For His Country Casino Resident Succumbs to Effects of Wounds Received in Late War

Tweed Daily · Thursday 4 February 1926 · page 2

CASINO, Wednesday.--Patrick Joseph O'Driscoll, who served several years in the European War, and who was invalided home just before the close of…

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War Service Homes. Auditor General's Report

The Kyogle Examiner · Friday 5 February 1926 · page 6

In the annual report of the Auditor General (Mr. J. W. Israel), in connection with the War Service Homes Commission, it is stated that the total…

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Cricket Greatest Since War Australian Team's Task (Reuter.) LONDON

Northern Star · Friday 5 February 1926 · page 2

That Australia is facing her greatest task since the war is the belief of Warren Bardsley in a final article in "All Sports Weekly."…

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Lawn Tennis Balls Enormous Profits Being Made. War Between Manufacturers. Money in Rackets

Tweed Daily · Friday 5 February 1926 · page 3

LONDON, Wednesday.--The "Daily Express" states that a great lawn tennis ball war is being waged between manufacturers affecting South Africa,…

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Her Greatest Task Since the War. Australia and the Ashes. Fears for the Younger Batsmen

Tweed Daily · Friday 5 February 1926 · page 3

LONDON, Wednesday.--That Australia is facing her greatest task, in the coming tests, since the war, is the belief of Warren Bardsley, in a final…

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Downfall of a Soldier Blames His Employer Encouraged to Drink an Unusual Case Bathurst

Northern Star · Friday 5 February 1926 · page 5

At the Quarter Sessions yesterday John Perrin Forster pleaded guilty to three counts of forging and uttering. He committed the crime while bookkeeping on…

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Premature Explosion. Kills Ex-soldier

Casino and Kyogle Courier and North Coast Advertiser · Saturday 6 February 1926 · page 2

SYDNEY, Friday.--A returned soldier, named Robert Butt, 31, was preparing gelignite for use in the destruction of fish in the Molonglo River, at…

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ITALlAN War Debt the French Suspicious London

Northern Star · Monday 8 February 1926 · page 5

Reuter's Rome correspondent states that the Chamber of Deputies passed the bil ratifying the Anglo-Italian debt settlement by 224 votes to I…

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Anzac's Commander Figures As Co-respondent Melbourne

Northern Star · Tuesday 9 February 1926 · page 3

Captain James R. C. Caveadish, commander of the destroyer Anzae, was co-respondent in divorce action, in which Gordon Thomas, bank manager, applied for a dissolution of…

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Woman Stabbed Man Also Found Wounded Melbourne

Northern Star · Tuesday 9 February 1926 · page 5

Constable Schenke was on duty in Errolstreet to-day when a woman rushed up to him, and told him that her sister had been stabbed by a man in a house in Glass-street…

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War Service Homes Commission's Note to Soldiers Sydney

Northern Star · Tuesday 9 February 1926 · page 5

In a letter to the Returned Soldiers' League, the War Service Homes Commission pointed out that it was not disposed to hand over to a former tenant any surplus…

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War Service Homes Commission will not Hand Over to Tenant any Surplus Resulting from Re-sale

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 9 February 1926 · page 3

SYDNEY, Monday.--In a letter to the Returned Soldiers' League, the War Service Homes Commission pointed out that it was not disposed to hand over…

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France Exhausted. War with Druses

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 10 February 1926 · page 3

LONDON, Tuesday.--The "Morning Post's" Damascus correspondent understands that M. de Jouvenal, High Commissioner in Syria, has been instructed…

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Toll of the Great War (Reuter.) PARIS

Northern Star · Wednesday 10 February 1926 · page 5

Interesting war statistics drawn up by the president of the French Statistical Society reveal that the killed and missing of the chief belligerents in proportion to the…

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Soldier Jones Defeated

The Richmond River Express and Casino Kyogle Advertiser · Wednesday 10 February 1926 · page 3

PARIS, Tuesday.—In a match between Paolim and Soldider Jones, the latter was knocked out in the first round…

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