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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · The wars & local soldiers

The wars & local soldiers, 1897

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Boy Soldiers of Germany

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 6 November 1897 · page 2

About the same time that Steffens was stirring the war passions of the Breslau students, the father of the German gymnastic clubs, the "Turnvater…

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Soldiers' Pets

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 13 November 1897 · page 2

In an article on "Soldiers' Pets" in the " Boy's Own Paper," the writer says that "the most common of all pets with soldiers in India is certainly the parrot, and…

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War and Arbitration

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 30 November 1897 · page 2

IN all countries at the present time, a parliamentary discussion on the estimates of revenueand…

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The Irish Soldier's Evidence

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 11 December 1897 · page 2

An Irish soldier on sentry duty had orders to allow no one to smoke near his post. An officer with a lighted eigar approached, and Pat boldly challenged…

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