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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1906

235 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 10 of 12

North Coast Railway

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Friday 9 November 1906 · page 2

The Council last night passed the second reading of the North Coast Railway Bill on the voices, and passed it through Committee. The third reading…

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A Lost Crown. Disappears From a Church. Tale of Marauding Motorists

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Friday 9 November 1906 · page 4

The Paris correspondent of the London “Daily Mail” wrote on 29th August:— A crown which was construction at a cost of 1,20,000 when the Pope decreed…

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The Motor Mouth. Effects on Kissing

The Age · Friday 9 November 1906 · page 3

The medical specialist who recently had the hardihood to assert that motoring would ultimately put an end to kissing, because it made the lips hard, will…

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Mrs Yerkes Criticised. Motor Accident Sequel

The Age · Friday 9 November 1906 · page 4

From Berlin, on 22nd August, the correspondent of the London "Daily Mail" wrote:— Mrs Mary Adelaide Yerkes, widow of…

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Gudgenby Road

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 13 November 1906 · page 3

A NOTIFICATION appears in Friday's Government Gazette that certain land has been resumed for deviation purposes in the road from…

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New Flying Machine. the Lightest Motor Ever Made

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Friday 16 November 1906 · page 3

According to the “Express” correspondent, writing from Paris on 3rd September Mr santos Dumont has great expectations that his new flying machine will…

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Broken Ranks. Motor-omnibus V.- Life Guards

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Friday 16 November 1906 · page 5

In trying to pass a mounted party of Life Guards on the near side In Regent street a motor-omnibus driver named Hand broke the ranks and scattered the…

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Cuts and Bruises. a Railway Porter Gives Zam-buk Great Praise

The Age · Friday 16 November 1906 · page 8

CUTS and bruises are not only sometimes very painful, but are most inconvenient, for one cannot db their work properly with a finger or arm tied up,…

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Amateur Burglars. Raids by Motor-cars

The Age · Friday 16 November 1906 · page 4

From Now York the correspondent of the "Daily Mail" writes in that paper of 27th August:— Automobile burglary is the latest…

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A Prince's Terrible Death. Motor-car Dashes Into a Locomotive

The Age · Friday 16 November 1906 · page 3

On 18th August Prince Ibrahim Mohamed, first cousin of the Khedive of Egypt, was mortally injured while driving in his automobile…

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Motoring on Skates

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 17 November 1906 · page 3

What is known as motor-skating is becoming popular in Paris among those who have the wherewithal to purchase motor skates…

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Killed on Railways

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 20 November 1906 · page 2

ON Saturday night, at the N.S.W. Railway and Tramways Ambulance meeting, Mr. Commissioner Kirkcaldie mentioned some interesting facts,…

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Killed by a Tram

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 20 November 1906 · page 2

MARION MAPSTONE, 55, a resident of Botany-road, Botany, was knocked down by a tram near her home on Sunday, and killed instantly. The…

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Important Railway Statement

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 20 November 1906 · page 2

THE Chief Railway Commissioner made an important statement at a demonstration by the Railway Ambulance Corps on Saturday. He…

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Paris Train Collision. Dashes Into Buffers

The Age · Friday 23 November 1906 · page 3

An alarming railway accident (writes the Paris correspondent of the London "Daily Mail" on 6th September) occurred this afternoon…

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Repairs to the Ginin- Derra Road

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 23 November 1906 · page 2

COLONEL RYRIE, .M.L.A., has re- ceived a letter from the Public Works Department, stating that in view of it report which has been…

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Railway Mystery. Strange Finds. Who Is B?

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Friday 23 November 1906 · page 5

A railway mystery which has so far defied solution, is being investigated at Hands worth, pear Buriningham Shortly after six o’clock on the…

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A Novelty in Tramway Tickets

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Friday 23 November 1906 · page 4

At Quincey , [?]is, the tra[?] xpanles have adopted a ticket which [?] hope will help tram conductors to her they passengers riding with [?]…

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Wanted, a Tramp

The Age · Friday 23 November 1906 · page 3

"The burgomaster of Windisch-Kamnitz, Bohemia, requests information concerning the whereabouts of Johann Loebel. The latter will hear…

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Husbands: and How to Train Them

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 24 November 1906 · page 3

Husbands-like any other wild animal-must be trained as soon as they are caught. Otherwise it will be found difficult to eradicate tiresome…

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