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The wars & local soldiers, 1896

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Mr. Thos. Marriott's opinions of Affairs in South Africa. the Jews Stand in the Way of War a Personal Acquaintance of Dr. Jameson

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 8 January 1896 · page 2

WHILE Mr. Thomas Marriott, our well-known solietor, was sitting at the legal table at the Court-house during a full in business yesterday, our reporter had a chat with him about recent…

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Electricity Applied to War

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 4 February 1896 · page 2

EDISON, speaking of his inventions, has made the following remarkable statement “It would require but the impetus of war to develop such a…

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Wedded by Fate. Chapter Xx. Fight From War and Pestilence

The Ulladulla and Milton Times · Saturday 29 February 1896 · page 6

Mr. Norman Winthrop was so like his brother, that, to a casual observer, he would have appeared to be the same man. He had the same symmetrical, stalwart form…

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England Preparing for War

The Ulladulla and Milton Times · Saturday 7 March 1896 · page 7

In the House of Commons, on Monday evening, Mr. G. J. Goschen, First Lord of the Admiralty, submitted the naval programme of the Government. He stated…

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The Fighting in Abyssiala. Latest News. Ten Thousand Italians Killed and Wounded. London, Thursday, Noon

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Saturday 7 March 1896 · page 2

DURING the fighting between the Italians and the Shoans on Sunday the three columns under the command of General Baratieri were unable to assist…

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Our Citizen Soldiers. Off to Camp. a Forced March to Nowra

The Ulladulla and Milton Times · Saturday 4 April 1896 · page 1

Some thirty members of F. Company Volunteers left town yesterday morning for Woollongong. They were to pick up a reinforcement at Yatteyattah, thus swelling…

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Elephants in War

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 5 May 1896 · page 4

[?] very [?] times [?]phants [?] used both in was op[?]stions and as burden learors in commercial tranac[?]ns in times of peace. [?]…

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The Soldier’ Mather

Moruya Examiner · Friday 4 September 1896 · page 4

Last Whitsuntide it came to the knowledge of her Majesty that down in a remote corner of Cornwall, at Garrow, near St. Breward there lived a humble, not too well off lady…

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Hanging of a Man-o'-War Seaman. Outside Sydney Heads

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 23 September 1896 · page 3

"Something of a sensation wan caused in Sydney yesterday by the receipt of news that a scientific party from the Austrian warship A[?] had been massacred by the natives…

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Another War Scare

Moruya Examiner · Friday 25 September 1896 · page 2

WITH the knowledge that war in Europe must greatly affect us in Australia, the startling development of affairs in Turkey is very naturally benig keenly watched…

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