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The wars & local soldiers, 1937

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Baylis-street Chapel Beautiful Altar Dedicated in Memory of Fallen Soldiers

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 27 April 1937 · page 4

The new altar in the Baylis-street Chapel in memory of the fallen soldiers is a great asset to the already beautiful chapel. It was dedicated by…

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An Appeal To Send Ex-soldiers' Sons For Holiday

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 27 April 1937 · page 2

The committee of management of Furlough House has decided to commemorate the Coronation of H.M. King George VI, by holding a…

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[?]Ut "Strawberry" Adelong Men in Throes of Oral War Trial at Tumut Shire Council Meeting Council, Decides to Support Impounding Officer

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Tuesday 27 April 1937 · page 6

The placid tranquillity which usually surrounds proceedings at the Tumut Shire Council meetings was disturbed at last Tuesday's…

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Anzac Day District Commemoration Combined Service at Illabo

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 28 April 1937 · page 3

Under the auspices of the senior Red Cross Society at Illabo, of Which Mrs. J. Meiklejohn is president, Anzac Dey was fittingly celebrated on Sunday…

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Averting War Brussels

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 28 April 1937 · page 2

An appeal to the war generation to combine to avert war, was the keynote of a speech by the British Foreign Minister (Captain Eden) at the…

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Soldiers' Night at Plaza

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 28 April 1937 · page 2

An unusual historical drama of our own times—the arresting story of the adventures of the immortal hero, Cecil Rhodes, in colonising South, Africa for…

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Anzac Day Commemoration at Hillston

The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser · Thursday 29 April 1937 · page 2

One of the largest gatherings for Anzac Commemoration yet seen in Hillston assembled to join in the service held on Sunday…

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Gundagai Remembers Anzac Day 22nd Anniversary of Landing

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 29 April 1937 · page 4

ALTHOUGH twenty-two years have now passed since the Landing at Anzac, when the Australian and New Zealand soldiers made for themselves an undying name, the significance of the day was never more profoundly realised than it is now. With the slow…

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£60 Clear Profit to Ambulance Fund Huge Success of Saturday Night’s Function. Coursing and Boxing on Anzac Park

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 29 April 1937 · page 2

Success crowned the efforts of several local citizens on Saturday night, when an outstanding entertainment was provided for the public on Anzac…

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Batlow Anzac Day Commemoration

Adelong and Tumut Express · Friday 30 April 1937 · page 4

Year by year the memory of Anzac becomes more hallowed as Time, the great physician, heals the raw wounds of sacrifice and…

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Anzac Day Whitton Ceremony

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 30 April 1937 · page 2

ALTHOUGH only a small sub-branch numerically the Whitton Returned Soldiers run all the functions on a…

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Packing Sheds Entered During Anzac Holiday

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 30 April 1937 · page 3

ON Monday last a number of packing houses in the town were entered and raids made on the offices, and at Attwoods the…

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Anzac Day Celebration at Darlington Point

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 30 April 1937 · page 1

The flag at half, mast with not enough wind to ruffle its drooping folds, was symbolical of our day of National and mourning and remembrance…

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Bread War

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 30 April 1937 · page 2

There is a bread war in Sydney. Some bakers are selling at 5d, and others at 4½d. A deputation is being formed to ask the Government to…

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Anzac Day Sports Meeting Fine Programme Frank Bradley Breaks Track Record

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 30 April 1937 · page 5

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Store Petrol in Case of War

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 30 April 1937 · page 6

DURING a recent discussion amongst it party of motorists anent the repercussions that would follow on a petrol…

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Lecture in Soldiers' Hall

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 1 May 1937 · page 5

To-morrow night Mr. A. E. Harvey, of Newcastle, will deliver a public address in the Soldiers' Hall, entitled "The Fourth Beast of Daniel 7." It…

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Spanish War (Continued from Page 1) Village Raided Rebels Machine Gun Women and Children Basques Fall Back on Bilbao London

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 1 May 1937 · page 5

The Bilbao correspondent of "The Times" says that 22 bombers, all declared to be German, attacked the villages of Galvacano, lying within the…

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Wounded Police Officer to Be Retired From Force Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Monday 3 May 1937 · page 4

Superintendent Brophy, chief of the Civil Investigation Branch of the police, was examined by a Government medical officer during the week, and…

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