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The wars & local soldiers, 1919

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The Miracle of Le Cateau. British Soldier Who Was Hidden for Four Years

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 27 June 1919 · page 3

Here is the miraculous story of a British soldier at Le Cateau. It is the story of what happened to a cavalryman named Fowler who was cut off when General…

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Returned Soldiers. Welcomed at the Rock

Daily Advertiser · Friday 27 June 1919 · page 3

Two soldiers, Ptes, W. Jarrett and E. M'Clellan, were welcomed back to The Rock on Wednesday night. The Presbyterian Church was bright with flags and…

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The Soldiers Vote

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 27 June 1919 · page 2

Every political party is scheming all it knows to snare the soldiers vote. The chances are under these conditions that this vote will be…

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War-time Profits Tax. Act Ends on

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 28 June 1919 · page 6

Profits earned by business after Monday next will no longer be subject to taxation under the War Time Profits Act…

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Federal Parliament. Relief of Distress. Land for Soldiers. Wheat and Flour Dealings. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 28 June 1919 · page 3

In the House of Representatives last night, the Acting Prime Minister (Mr. Watt) announced that he had given further consideration to the…

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Soldiers' Letters

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 28 June 1919 · page 4

Mrs. G. H. Kelsey, "Noitgedacht," Coolong-road, Vaucluse Bay, Sydney acknowledges receipt of the following letters for soldiers on the income…

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Alleged Bigamy. Two Soldier Husbands, Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 28 June 1919 · page 6

Daisy Isabel Smith was committed for trial to-day on a charge of bigamy. William James Smith, a returned soldier, deposed that the married the…

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Enrolment of Returned Soldiers

Daily Advertiser · Monday 30 June 1919 · page 2

The Commonwealth electoral administration desires the enrolment of all returned soldiers. The law provides that soldiers under 21 years of age must…

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Federal Finance. Australia's War Burden

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 1 July 1919 · page 4

In the House of Representatives, on Wednesday evening, in moving a motion for temporary supply of £4,337,335 for two months,…

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Lord Jellicoe's Joy. End of Worlds Worst War. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 1 July 1919 · page 2

Viscount Jellicoe, referring to the signing of peace, remarked: "All I can say if that 1 rejoice, as 1 Know every Britisher and every one of our…

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Land for Returned Soldiers

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 1 July 1919 · page 2

Mr. T. Fitzpatrick, of Warre Warrel, was in attendance at the Junee Repatriation Committee meeting on Saturday afternoon last and made the following usual commission to go to the Junee Repatriation Committee. Mr. Fitzpatrick suggested that where two soldiers would be farming alongside of each…

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More Returned Men. Wives Accompany Soldiers. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 2 July 1919 · page 2

Nearly 1000 members of the A.I.F. returned to Sydney to-day. Many were accompanied by their wives…

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Protest Against Treaty. Berlin Demonstrations. Soldiers Assaulted. Berlin

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 2 July 1919 · page 2

Rowdy midnight demonstrations are arising out of the acceptance of the peace treaty. A mob assaulted and robbed pedestrians and maltreated…

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Fatal Fracas. Returned Soldier's Death. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 2 July 1919 · page 2

Richard Blackburn, 38, a returned soldier, died in the Sydney Hospital this morning as a result of a fracas in the city last night. Deceased, who…

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War Savings

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Thursday 3 July 1919 · page 3

The new issue of War Savings Certificates is a step forward in the endeavour to st m[?] rit among Australians. It is the wish of the…

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Make War on Rats

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Thursday 3 July 1919 · page 4

One rat destroys one farthing's worth of national wealth every day of its life. The rat is a pest when alive and…

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Miscellaneous War and Women's Faces

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Thursday 3 July 1919 · page 6

A woman sculptor, when asked if she thought the experiences of the war had left any permanent mark on the faces of women, replied:…

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To Pay for the War. Compulsory Wealth Tax LONDON, June 26th

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Thursday 3 July 1919 · page 6

The ennouncement in "The Times" that an anonymous donor, having rea: lined a fortuna, had taken out £150,000 worth of Victory Bonds, and had pre:…

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What the Soldiers Read

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Thursday 3 July 1919 · page 6

" Without the books our trip would indeed have been dull," stated a return: ed soldier the other day, a week or so after he had stepped off the transport…

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Soldiers' Memorial Referendum Day, September 1

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 3 July 1919 · page 2

A meeting of the general committee appointed in connection with the movement to commemorate the victory of the Allies and to perpetuate the…

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