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The wars & local soldiers, 1891

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The Sioux War Religion and Cosmogony

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 6 January 1891 · page 4

THE coming of the Messiah among the Dakota Sioux (says the Birmingham Post) is not to be taken in its religious sense. The word, according to the Indian meaning,…

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Outrage Near Albury. a Selector Speared by Blacks. No Hope Recovery. the Wounded Man Robbed. Albuey

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 5 May 1891 · page 2

A MAN, named Suvein Mursczkavit[?], a Russian Pole, was yesterday morning speared by blacks on his selection, Basin Greek, at Dora Dora, 42 miles from Albury. Mursczkavitz…

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Is War Deadly?

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 1 August 1891 · page 4

Can anyone answer that? It's doubtful, very doubtful." War may not be healthy or conducive [?]o longevity, especially for the front rank of the participants in the frolic[?]…

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Dogs of War

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 6 August 1891 · page 4

IN France, Italy, Germany, and Austria, as well as in Bosnia and the Herzegovina, so called war-dogs have been kept, in order to test their watchfulness for the benefit of the…

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The War in Chili. a Desperate Engagemeht. Three Thousand Killed. London, Aug. 24

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 27 August 1891 · page 2

Intelligence has been received from Chili that terrific fighting took place on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday last before Valpariso, between the Chilian insurgents and the…

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The Chilian War. London, Aug. 28

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 1 September 1891 · page 2

The latest information from the seat of war in Chili is from insurgent and Press sources, and is dated later than the telegrams received on Thursday by the Chilian…

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The War in Chili. London, Aug. 31

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 3 September 1891 · page 2

It was expected that President Balmaceda, whose forces sustained so crushing a defeat at Valparaiso on Thursday, would make a final stand at Santiago, the capital city of…

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THE Magga Magga Advertiser. "This is true liberty, when frecborn men, Having to advise the public, mayspeak free." Milton. Thursday, September 3, 1891. the Chillian War

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 3 September 1891 · page 2

THE fierce fratricidal contest which has been raging in Chili for the greater part of a year may now be said to have virtually ended. Victory rests with…

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The War in Chili

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 4 September 1891 · page 4

ACCORDING to reports which have reached New York Indescribable cruelties are daily inflicted in chili upon prisoners by order of the Presidential authorities. If a citizen dures to…

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A Breach of Promise Case. £900 for a Wounded Heart

The Cootamundra Liberal · Saturday 26 September 1891 · page 2

There was a breach of promise case hears in the No. 2 Jury Court on Tuesday, before Mr Justice Windeyer and a Jury of four. The parties were Mary Elizabeth Hayes, a…

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PEACE or War? [To the Editor.]

Cootamundra Herald · Saturday 26 September 1891 · page 10

SIR,—It is much to be regretted that Mr. W. G. Spence, Secretary of the Labourers General Union, should persist in his endeavours to foment strife between the…

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THE Wagga Wagga Advertiser. "This is true libierty, when freeborn men, Having to advise the public, may speak free." Miltos. Tuesday, September 29, 1892. Wars and Rumors of War

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 29 September 1891 · page 2

FOR some time past the inhabitants of this part of the world have been kept in what may be termed a state of strained expectancy by the rather…

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Sensational Shooting Affair. an Alleged Burglar Wounded. Peculiar Circumstances. Melbourne

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 22 October 1891 · page 2

A pew minutes after 12 o'clock this morning some of the policc from Collingwood arrived at the Melbourne Hospital with a young man, who was wounded in his right arm…

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Putting on the " War Paint."'

The Cootamundra Liberal · Wednesday 28 October 1891 · page 2

News has reached Berlin from Bagamoyo, in German East Africa, that Dr Peters, during his expedition to Kalima Ninro has bad some very severe…

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The Bayonet. the British Soldier Unskilled in Its Use

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 26 November 1891 · page 3

AN excellent article has appeared in the Madras Times "The Bayonet." We quote from it the following passages:—Whether the new weapon will prove a success is still…

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An Old Soldier

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 29 December 1891 · page 2

LIEUTENANT Frederick Bayly, who has been termed "The Father of the British Army," died at 68 Pultney-street, Bath, on the 16th November. He completed his 100 year in…

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