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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1870

5 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers

My Sufferings in the Train

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 6 January 1870 · page 1

INEXORABLE business calling me out of Sydney, just as I was in the act of taking a lesson at cricket on Tuesday last, and looked forward to my usual Christmas relaxation,…

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A Railway Suicide

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 7 April 1870 · page 4

MR. PARTON, the deputy-coroner for the Western Division of Surrey, held an inquest on Wednesday evening at Victoria Inn, Shaldford, near Guildford, on the…

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Thomson's Road Steamer

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 14 July 1870 · page 4

THOMSON'S road steamer is likely to become a carrying and working instrument of immense commercial importanse. It is of moderate size, weighs from 6 to 10…

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State of the Road.—public Meeting

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 28 July 1870 · page 2

ON last Tuesday [evening a meeting called by advertisement was held at Mr G. Rolfe's (Rose, Shamrock, and Thistle) inn, in this town, for the purpose of taking some steps…

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Leap From the Bridge Over the Falls of Niagara

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 1 December 1870 · page 4

Frank Thorne who has advertised that he will leap from the new bridge at Niagara, jumped by way of practice, from the roof of the Watson Elevator into the…

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