Husbands: and How to Train Them
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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Railways, roads & transport, 1906
235 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 11 of 12
A New Bridge
A now bridge across the St. Lawrence river from Montreal to the south shore will be built in the immediate future. Six Doulas Fox, of London, is engineer for…
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THE Railway Department advertises the running of an excursion tram to Sydney and intermediate stations at the specially low fares of 1 12d per…
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An inquest was held at the City Coroner's Court on 13th September on the body of Gilbert Edwards, an employe of the District Railway, who died from…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Bridge Dynamited. Express Waits the While
On the Brighton and South Coast Railway the other day a bridge over the line was destroyed by dynamite, while the 5 o'clock express from Brighton waited a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Santos Dumont's Aeroplane
M. Santos Dumont recently made a fresh trial with an aeroplane fitted with a 50 h.p. motor at the Bole de Boulogne. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Local News. Road Tenders
THE following are the lowest tenders for road work in the Queanbeyan district:—Bungendore to Upper Gundaroo. J. Walsh, £467 7/ Queanbeyan to Gudenby, T. O'Rourke,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →In a Crowded Tramway Car
Conductor: 'Any gentleman get outside to oblige a lady?' 'She can come and sit on my knee if she likes,' raid a gentleman; and to his…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Motor Cycles. Words of Advice
Mr J. Pollock Castors, writing in "Fry's Magazine," makes out a very good cases for the motor-cycle, which, after a boom at its advent, has dropped…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Where the Roads Fork
Darienne was walking the baby up and down the floor. It was past 2 in the morning, and there was no one else in the house. At least she hoped…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Kaiser's Train Cozy As Home. Beer and Cigars Enliven His After-dinner Unrestrained Chat with His Companions on the Road
When Emperor William travels by rail in Germany, he insists that his train shall go to its destination without stopping. The time of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Lad Killed on a Railway Line
A SHOCKING fatal accident occurred on Saturday at the Humffray-street railway gates, Ballarat East, to a boy named John Farrell, aged fifteen…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Road Race
The following entries have been received for the 10 mile road race (five miles out and back on the Araluen Road):—W. Sebbons, J. Musgrave, M,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Train Sickness. Rapidly Growing
Train-sickness is becoming more prevalent. Whereas ten years ago only one traveller out of 100 ever became trainsick, now five times as many succumb…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Poetry. a Song of the Road
I have no house to call my home. No bricks and mortar hold me fast; Year in, year out. I freely roam, Until my Journey ends at last…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →From the Train. the Lady Leaped. Sudden Madness
The corridor carriage seems decidedll unfortunate (writes the "Daily Mail" of 24th September). An eminently desir- able innovation in itself, it is the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Long-Suffering Motorists
The total amount of damage done to motor cars through the avoidance of fowls and dogs far exceeds the value of live stock killed by motorists…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Motor Mystery. St. Petersburg Red Car
From St. Petersburg on 22nd September the correspondent of the “Daily Mail” Wrote:— The mysterious motor-car which was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Road Contracts
The following were the successful tenders invited for road works, which were opened at the District Road Engineer's office yesterday:-…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Smuggling Up to Date. How a Motor-coat Was Made the Repository of Valuable Lace
A motor-coat, £60 worth of lace, a clever young modiste, and a sharp Customs officer were the component parts of a little comedy-drama…
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