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The wars & local soldiers, 1890

11 stories in Riverina's papers

Flirting and its Consequences. Riyal Lovers at War

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 7 January 1890 · page 3

CONSIDERABLE interest was centred in a cage investigated in the St. Kilda Police Court on Friday, in which a young man named William Collins charged Robert Browning,…

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Mr. Bradlaugh a Soldier

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 14 January 1890 · page 4

EXACTLY 39 years ago (says the Pall Mall Gazette), when Mr. Bradlugh was a raw lad of 16, suffering keen privations in consequence of the difficulty in finding…

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Tale of a War Horse. (From the "Court Journal,")

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 16 January 1890 · page 4

AN officer of experience, writing on the be havior of houses in battle, says: "When it comes to battle a horse seems to know everything that is going on; but he does his duty…

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Tale of a War Horse

The Cootamundra Liberal · Saturday 18 January 1890 · page 3

An officer of experience, writing in the Court Journal en the behaviour of horses in battle, says:--''When it comes to battle a horse Seems to know…

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From Soldier to Clergyman

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 4 February 1890 · page 4

The Rev. Canon Acocks, Vicar of Albury, who had been seriously ill for some mouths past died on Monday evening. His case was considered hopeless soveral weeks ago, but a change for the better took…

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The Brand and Powder Barrel. Count Moltke's War Speech

The Cootamundra Liberal · Saturday 28 June 1890 · page 3

On May,14 the Reichstag commenced the debate on the first reading of the bill for adding 18,000 men to the peace establishment of the army. as well as for…

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Young Soldiers

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 17 July 1890 · page 3

SOME months ago the Wisconsin Legislature awarded a gold medal to H. E. Francisco, of Mason City, Iowa, as the youngest soldier of the American Civil War. He was 14 years…

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War Imminent. Australia Threatened. Alarming News. SYDNEY, Thursday night

The Cootamundra Liberal · Saturday 19 July 1890 · page 2

This evening a message iron Port Darwin states that three ships of the line, believed to be under the command of the Russian Grand Duke Nicholas,…

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The Threatened Industrial War

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 31 July 1890 · page 4

There is no very hard kernel in the present shipping dispute (writes the Melbourne Age). If there is to be a light everybody will, at least, easily…

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A Deep Drinker. Bismarck Surprises the Soldiers

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 4 December 1890 · page 2

BISMARCK'S promotion to the grade of honorary colonel of the Seventh Regiment of Cuirassiers gave currency to this story According to the custom in vogue in the…

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How a War was Averted

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 23 December 1890 · page 3

MR. Lucien Millevoye, a Boulangist deputy, Beads the Eclair, on 10th November, an extraordinary account of bow the Czir Alexander II, prevented a threatened war in…

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