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Railways, roads & transport, 1913

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Railway Bill

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 15 February 1913 · page 4

The Railway Bill was read a third time and passed…

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Railway Lines Washed Away. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 15 February 1913 · page 7

The latest news from South Australia shows that yesterday's flood was more disastrous [?] was at [?] thought. News arriving from all…

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Local and General News Charley Motor in Wagga

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 15 February 1913 · page 2

On Thursday morning in Wagga many people had the pleasure of seeing and riding in a motor car fitted with the new patent chassis invented by Mr…

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South Australian Floods Disastrous Innundation of the Country. Railway Lines Blocked. Driver Washed Off His Engine. Adelaide

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 15 February 1913 · page 2

As telegrams pour in from [?] country to-day it is realised that [?]terday's floods were more disastrous than was at first thought. All centres…

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Motor Car Wrecked. Four Passengers Seriously Injured. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Monday 17 February 1913 · page 2

A party of motorists were travelling along the Parramatta-road last night, when the car swerved over a culvert, and was completely wrecked. One of…

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Transcontinental Railway. PERTH

Daily Advertiser · Monday 17 February 1913 · page 2

Mr. Fisher in addressing an enthusiastice meeting here, said the feasibility of constructing the Transcontinental line from the middle as well…

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Hot Explosion. Aster in Paris. [?]Ions Against Motor Bandits. Paris

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 18 February 1913 · page 5

[?]osion at Messrs. Fowry [?] gun shop. M. Taupin was [?] passers-by were injured. [?]ing partner, M. Fowry,…

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Mutilated Motor Number

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 18 February 1913 · page 3

James Stephen Aylett was summoned on a charge of driving a motor car, contrary to the Motor Traffic Act, with a mutilated number plate attached. Mr…

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Attempted Train Wrecking Log on Rails. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 19 February 1913 · page 2

An attempt was made to wreck a train on the North Shore line yesterday afternoon, by placing a log across the rails. The wheels passed clean…

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Attempts to Fire a Train

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 20 February 1913 · page 3

A suffragette has been arrested for setting fire to a train on the Great Central railway…

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Railway Accident. Ten Persons Killed. London

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 20 February 1913 · page 2

Ten persons were killed and thirty serious injured, as the result of a railway accident in Pittsburg United States…

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Motor Cycle Naphtha Consumption Test

The Worker · Thursday 20 February 1913 · page 8

In the Motor Club's Ten-Mile Naphtha Consumption Test run the L.M.C. Motor Cycles, manufactured by W. F. Larke, Ltd., took 1st, 2nd, and 3rd places. This…

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For the Bairns. a Railway Wreck

The Worker · Thursday 20 February 1913 · page 11

He lies amid a railroad wreck In calm and smiling rest, One stranded car against his neck, The engine on his breast…

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An Urgently-needed Bridge

Coolamon Farmers' Review · Friday 21 February 1913 · page 3

A large body of farmers have for some time been agitating for the construction of a bridge over the Murrumbidgee at a point…

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Coolamon Shire Road Plant

Coolamon Farmers' Review · Friday 21 February 1913 · page 4

An important addition to the shire road plant has just been effected by which the efficiency, both of the plant and the men…

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Wyalong Railway League

The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser · Friday 21 February 1913 · page 8

A meeting of the Wyalong Railway League was held last week, and it was decided to targe the construction of the Wyalong-Cudgellico…

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The Stranded Motor-car. an Incident of the Pekin-paris Race

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Friday 21 February 1913 · page 4

On Wednesday early in June, 1907, [?] for would have been noticed (if, [?], there was anyone, to see it [?] a lonely place) ploughing its…

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The Motor Bandits. Death Sentence Asked For. Paris

Daily Advertiser · Friday 21 February 1913 · page 2

The Public Prosecutor has asked for death sentence to be passed on Sondy, Callemin, Drendonne, Carony, Metge and Monier who participated in the…

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Combaning-Methul Railway League

Coolamon Farmers' Review · Friday 21 February 1913 · page 2

A meeting of the executive committee of the Combaning-Methul Railway League was held at Spring wood on Saturday, 15th…

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Motor Cycling Record. SYDNEY

Daily Advertiser · Monday 24 February 1913 · page 2

Jim Bolger, a motor cyclist, arrived at Sydney early this morning, after a record ride of 23 hours 41 minutes from the Melbourne Post Office…

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