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Railways, roads & transport, 1918

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Railway Wash-out. Adelaide

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 1 January 1918 · page 2

Owing to the wash-out on the East-West railway the train which was due at Adelaide this afternoon has been delayed many hours. There are ninety…

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Heavy Tramway Traffic. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 3 January 1918 · page 4

Daring the past few days Sydney and suburban trams carried over 2,000,400 passengers without a solitary accident having been reported…

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Late Railway Strike. Loyalty Rewarded. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 3 January 1918 · page 2

A number of railway are tramway officials who daring the recent strike assisted the Commissioners to carry on the public services, received a New…

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Railway Award Rates. Breaches Denied. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 3 January 1918 · page 2

The railway heads deny a statement by Mr. Claude Thompson, secretary of the Amalgamated Railway Service Association, that there have been breaches…

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Aeroplane Slang

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 4 January 1918 · page 5

The unquenchable youth and vitality of our airmen, says a writer in the Globe, is reflected in the slang which they invent with regard to their work. It is well…

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An Aeroplane's Short Term of Life

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 4 January 1918 · page 8

Writing on aviation at the front, a correspondent of the New York "Saturday Evening Post" says:—The average life of a machine at the front is only…

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Robbed While Asleep. Train Passengers Losses £180. SYDNEY

Daily Advertiser · Friday 4 January 1918 · page 4

While travelling from Orange to [?] by train early this morning [?] Thomas [?] a resident of Ken[?] was robbed of £120 in notes,…

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Italian Front Italian Pressure Enemy Abandon Bridge Head. London, Wednesday Night

Daily Advertiser · Friday 4 January 1918 · page 2

An Italian official report states: Owing, to our pressure since December 27 the enemy abandoned the bridgehead at Zenson and crossed to the…

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Railway Time Table. Junee-Hay Line

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 4 January 1918 · page 4

The following is the altered time table for the Junee-Hay line:— Daily from Junee to Yanco,…

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Astounding Motor Tyre Figures

Adelong and Tumut Express and Tumbarumba Post · Friday 4 January 1918 · page 3

Some ides of the vast scale on which the rubber industry is conducted in Akron, United states of America (the rubber capital of the world)…

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Railways and Fires

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 5 January 1918 · page 4

It is stated that sparks from passing railway engines were responsible for causing fires last week at Mr. T. J. S. Nicholl's property at Willie…

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Stone on Railway Line. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Monday 7 January 1918 · page 4

To-day, John William Kerr and Leslie Morley were before the Glen Innes Police Court, charged with placing an obstruction on the railway line…

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French Repulse Foe. Railway Stations Bombed

Daily Advertiser · Monday 7 January 1918 · page 2

A French communique received this afternoon says: "An enemy attempt to attack opposite Anspach, in Upper Alsace, failed completely, the Germans…

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Serious Motoring Accident. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Monday 7 January 1918 · page 4

Alfred M'Ewan, of Petersham, was driving a motor car along Broadway, near Sydney, when he tried to avoid running into a sulky which was in…

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Asto unding Motor Tyre Fibres

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 8 January 1918 · page 4

Spine idea of the vast scale on which the rubber industry is con. ducted in Akron, United States of Amcrica (the rubber capital of…

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Fighting in Arabia. Turks Raid Railway. London

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 8 January 1918 · page 2

The War Office reports that Arabs in Hedjaz successfully raided the railway southward of Maan and also prisonered the garrison at an important post…

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Visit to Burrenjuck. Novel Ride on the 2ft. Railway. The Goodradigbee Valley. Now a Lovely Lake. Outings on the Motor Launch. No. 1

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 9 January 1918 · page 4

On New Year's Eve we set out from Cootamundra, aboard the Temora mail, on route for Burrenjuck. The village of Goondab, where the…

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Motoring Sensation. Remarkable Escapes

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 9 January 1918 · page 3

A most sensational motor accident occurred on the Blacks' Spur (Vic.) at 5.30 on Saturday evening, when the mail coach running between Healesville…

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Only for Travellers. Beer at Railway Rooms

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 10 January 1918 · page 1

A prosecution under the licensing laws which the police magistrate described as the first of its kind in the State, was dealt with at the Albury…

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Australian Flying Corps Aerodrome in Midlands. London, Friday Night

Daily Advertiser · Monday 14 January 1918 · page 2

The Australian flying Corps has achieved its cherished ambition, and now has its own aerodrome in the Midlands, where the principal…

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