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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Obituaries & funerals

Obituaries & funerals, 1901

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Death of Sir Joseph Abbott. (By Telegraph.) Sydney, September 16

The Western Herald · Wednesday 18 September 1901 · page 2

Sir Joseph Abbott, late Speaker of the New South Wales Assembly, died yesterday, September 17. The faderal of the late Sir Joseph Abbott…

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Death of Sir Joseph Abbott

The Wellington Times · Thursday 19 September 1901 · page 3

After an illness extending over many months, during which he had been gradually sinking, Sir Joseph Palmer Abbott, K.C.M.G. died at half-past 3 o'clock on Sunday…

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Death of President M'Kinley. London

Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Friday 20 September 1901 · page 5

President M'Kinley breathed his last at 2 a.m. The end was peaceful. The dying President became unconscious at 6.40 p.m., and did not…

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Obituary

The Cobar Herald · Saturday 21 September 1901 · page 2

THERE have been no less than five deaths in Cobar and Wrightville since our last issue. The first was that of Mr Edward Bartley Jones, which…

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Death of Mr. Speight

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 21 September 1901 · page 4

Mr. Richard Speight, ex-Railway Commissioner of Victoria, is dead…

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Death of Mr. Speight. Sydney, September 20

The Western Herald · Saturday 21 September 1901 · page 2

Mr. Speight, late Railway Commissioner of Victoria, is dead…

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Death of a Prominent Footballer

The Bligh Watchman and Coonabarabran Gazette · Tuesday 24 September 1901 · page 2

Mr. William Arthur Shortland, [?] prominent football player, who accompanied the New South Wales team [?] New Zealand, and only returned [?]…

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Tribute by the Prime Minister. on the Death of President [?]

The Bligh Watchman and Coonabarabran Gazette · Tuesday 24 September 1901 · page 3

Melbourne, Wednesday.—In the House of Representatives, the speaker took the chair at 2 o’clock and Mr. Barton immediately…

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Death of the Stallion Correze

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 25 September 1901 · page 3

The famous racing stalling Cerreze dropped dead yesterday…

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Death of Mr. Stanislaus Fitzgerald

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 25 September 1901 · page 2

WE regret to have to report the death of Mr. Stanislaus Fitzgerald, eldest son of Mrr. E. M. Fitzgerald of the Court House Hotel, which took place at 2 p.m. on Sunday last. The…

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Death of Mr. Gotch. Sydney, September 24

The Western Herald · Wednesday 25 September 1901 · page 2

Mr. J. Gotch, head of the firm of Gordon and Gotch, died suddenly in Melbourne this morning…

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Bottled Funeral Tears

The Wellington Times · Thursday 26 September 1901 · page 6

A physician, who was recently returned from Persia, says that the natives still believe that human tears are a remedy for certain chronic diseases. At every funeral…

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Death of a Famous Stallion

The Wellington Times · Thursday 26 September 1901 · page 4

Friends of Mr. A. E. Anderson, of "Myrangle" stud, near Cumnock, will regret to hear of his extreme ill luck in losing that fine stallion Correze—one of the…

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Death of a Pioneer

Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Friday 27 September 1901 · page 5

Alexander Cochrane, ono of the oldest pioneers on the Macleay River, died in Sydney yesterday…

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Estate of the Late Mr. R. Booth

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 28 September 1901 · page 4

ON Thursday Mr. G. H. Taylor held a sale of land and properties in the estate of the late Mr. R. Booth, at his Rooms. There was a very large attendance. The bidding was not as…

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The Late Mrs. Egan

The Wellington Times · Monday 30 September 1901 · page 2

The remains of the late Mrs. Egan, mother of Mrs. J. T. Mallon, of this town, were exhumed from the local cemetery on Friday last for re-interment in the family…

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Death of Mrs. M. A. McDonald

The Bligh Watchman and Coonabarabran Gazette · Tuesday 1 October 1901 · page 2

Mrs. McDonald who had been a resident of the town for thirty years died at her residence in John Street, last Friday evening, the immediate cause of death…

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Death of Mr. John Reddan

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 5 October 1901 · page 3

IT came somewhat rather a surprise which the and tidings were announced in Warren on Thursday afternoon that Mr. John Reddan passed away shortly after one o' clock that day…

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Death of Sergeant Myers

The Bligh Watchman and Coonabarabran Gazette · Tuesday 8 October 1901 · page 2

Word was received yesterday of the death of Sergeant Myers, which took place en Sunday Morning in St. Vincents Hospital. It is just three months since…

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Death of Mr. F. G. Lowe

The Wellington Times · Thursday 10 October 1901 · page 4

It is our painful duty to record the death of Mr. Frederick George Lowe, one of the best known and most respected of district men. The sad event occurred at his late…

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