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The wars & local soldiers, 1918

3,135 stories in Riverina's papers · page 9 of 157

Pullitop Soldiers' Comforts

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 17 January 1918 · page 2

A meeting was called at Pullitop on December 29 by Miss Lill Cox, when a Pullitop branch of the Wagga Soldiers' Comforts Fund was formed…

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Returned Soldiers Injured. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 17 January 1918 · page 2

William Pickering was committed for trial to-day on a charge of having maliciously thrown upon a returned soldier, Private Wilkins, a quantity of…

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Killed in Action

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 18 January 1918 · page 2

On Friday last the sad news was received by cable that Private Wm. Black, of Farm [?]3 had been killed in action at Bullecourt. Previously…

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Welcome Home

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 18 January 1918 · page 3

A happy company assembled at Watson's Cafe on Friday evening last, representing past and present employees of the Yanco Joinery Works and…

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Welcoming a Returned Wounded Soldier

Adelong and Tumut Express and Tumbarumba Post · Friday 18 January 1918 · page 2

The proverbial "monster gathering" of wellwishers turned out on Wednesday night to the welcome bome tendered Pte R. J. Piper, of…

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Papers for Soldiers. Anzac Buffet Appeal. London

Daily Advertiser · Friday 18 January 1918 · page 4

The Anzac Buffet appeals to the proprietors of town and country newspapers, all issues to be addressed to 94 Victoria street. Mr. Fisher, High…

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"Tommy's" Cigar[?] Effect of Nicotine on Wounded Men

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 18 January 1918 · page 2

"By pressing cigarettes upon wounded and convalescent soldiers in such quantities a generous public is unconsciously making it more difficult for…

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After the War--morals

Tumbarumba Times · Friday 18 January 1918 · page 4

DR. JOHN DEWEY, Columbia profssser and sage, has been inveigled by a New York World interviewer in a forecast of the modification of domestic and other relations that will follow…

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Scottish Women's War Hospitals

Daily Advertiser · Friday 18 January 1918 · page 2

Mr. C. N. Button, organising secretary of the Scottish Women's War Hospitals, will deliver an address in St. John's Hall this evening on "The…

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The War London

Adelong and Tumut Express and Tumbarumba Post · Friday 18 January 1918 · page 2

Amsterdam messages state that at the Brest-Litovsk negotiations Herr von Kublmann (German Foreign [?]) adopted the…

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Latest War News Washington

Adelong and Tumut Express and Tumbarumba Post · Friday 18 January 1918 · page 2

A bomb was discovered near a United States battleship drylocked in an American port…

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War-time Hints for Women

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 18 January 1918 · page 6

ETERNAL vegetable-canning is the price of winter plenty. It's never too late to send gifts to the boys at the front…

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The War. To-day’s War News. Russia. Pitched Battle in Odessa

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 18 January 1918 · page 1

Reuter’s Petrograd correspondent states that newspaper telegrams report a pitched battle in the streets of Odessa between Ukranian troops and…

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The War The Latest Thursday Afternoon

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 18 January 1918 · page 2

A wireless German official messages says:—"A violent attack against the Austro-Hungarians at Mount Asalone and Pertica…

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The War. Latest News. SYDNEY

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 18 January 1918 · page 4

The " Times " believes the Yarmouth raider was a light submarine or light cruiser. There were four deaths. Although the visitation…

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Local and General. Scottish Women's War Hospitals

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 18 January 1918 · page 2

Mr. Button states that an enthusiastic public meeting was held in the Town Hall, Goulburn, on Wednesday. The Mayor (Aid. Wood),…

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War on the Sea. Weekly Statistics. London

Daily Advertiser · Friday 18 January 1918 · page 2

The Admiralty reports: Arrivals for the week, 2100; sailings, 2194. Six vessels over and two under 1600 tons were sunk. Five were unsuccessfully…

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Latest Cables. War. Midday News. "D—Hypocrisy." LONDON

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 18 January 1918 · page 2

Stanley Burgess, Chairman of the Sheffield Strike Committee, who was arrested with respect to the engineers' strike last year,…

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Yanco Committee Citizens' "War Chest" Fund. Report for Period Ending December 31, 1917

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 18 January 1918 · page 2

The Yanco committee of the War Chest was inaugurated on May 29, 1917. at a meeting held in the School of Arts, Yanco, at which Mrs. Sendall,…

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Telegraphist Missing. Enlisted As Munition Worker. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Friday 18 January 1918 · page 3

After having enlisted as a munition worker for England, and his luggage had been entrained for Adelaide, Har[?] old Ramsden, aged 42, employed as a…

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