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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Obituaries & funerals

Obituaries & funerals, 1873

12 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers

Horace Greeley's Funeral

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 30 January 1873 · page 4

HORACE GREELEY, the celebrated journalist died on the 29th November. His life was insured for 100,000 dollars, for the benefit of the Tribune Association. It…

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Death of the Ex-emperor, Napoleon Iii

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 20 March 1873 · page 3

On January 6, the Emperor was placed under the influence of chloroform, and then underwent a second operation for crushing the stone. The following was…

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French Journals on the Death of Napoleon Iii. Paris, January 10

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 17 April 1873 · page 4

Nothing can give a more exact idea of the opinion held respec ting Napoleon III. than those which are expressed by the various journals…

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Public Funeral of the Late W. C. Wentworth. the Funeral Oration

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 15 May 1873 · page 3

THE following is the oration delivered by Sir James Martin at the public funeral of Mr Wentworth last week:— It has been deemed fitting that before…

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Death of the Late Executioner.—

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 15 May 1873 · page 2

Joseph Bull, who for some time filled the office of public executioner, died at the Liverpool Asylum on the 9th instant. He was admitted on the 3rd April, and was at…

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Public Funeral of the Late W. C. Wentworth

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 15 May 1873 · page 4

THE public funeral of the late William Charles Wentworth took place on Tuesday. A large concourse had assembled outside of St. Andrew's Cathedral, in…

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Death of Sir T. A. Murray

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 26 June 1873 · page 2

BY our telegram yesterday afternoon intimation was first given of the death of Sir Terence Aubrey Murray, President of the Legislative Council; later in the evening the mail…

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Frightful Death of an Aeronaut

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 9 October 1873 · page 3

THE particulars of the frightful fall and death of Professor La Mountain, while making a balloon ascension at Ionia, Mich., on the 5th of July last,…

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Local Intelligence. Death of Colonel Gibbes

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 11 December 1873 · page 2

BY the announcement in our columns last week of the serious illness of Colonel Gibbes, of Yarralumla, our readers would be prepared to hear of his demise…

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Funeral of Late Colonel Gibbes

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 18 December 1873 · page 2

THE mortal remains of Colonel J. G. N. Gibbes were interred in the family vault at Yarralumla on Monday afternoon last. A large number of persons…

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Death of the Rev. John West

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 18 December 1873 · page 3

THE public will learn with much regret that the Rev. John West, for upwards of twenty years editor of the Sydney Morning Herald, died suddenly on…

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Obituary of a Western Editor

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 25 December 1873 · page 4

YE EDITOR sat in his ricketty chair, as worried as worried could be, for ye devil was grinning before him there, and "copy" ye devil sayed he…

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