Washaway on Railway
About half-past four on Thursday afternoon last a terrible thunderstorm gathered on the ranges to the south of Goulburn and swept at a…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1913
99 stories in Southern Highlands's papers · page 1 of 5
Motors and Furniture. Contrast in Consumption
As I have already shown on another occasion, the existing motor-car consumption of this country is limited to the well-to-do and the rich. Here and…
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Addressing the Oberon Shire Council, Mr. Griffith, Minister for Works, exp[?]sined that the £250,000 which had been put on the E[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Main Roads Vote
Addressing the Oberon Shire Council, Mr. Griffith, Minister for Works, explained that the £250,000 which had been put on the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Romance of a Train Wreck
Smith B. Bussell, sixty-nine, a retired capitalist, and Miss Gertrude M. Kerr, twenty-three, a music teacher, both of Greensburg, Indiana, eloped to New…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Motor Bandits
Chicago, Jan. 4—Four automobile bandits wrecked a jeweller's window and escaped with a tray of valuable diamonds…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Furious Motor Driving. Problem in Paris
The question of the regulation of traffic in the streets of Paris is always with us (said the Paris correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" on October 3)…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Elopement by Aeroplane
An elopement by a distinctly-novel method is reported from Fort Wayne, Indiana, where Miss Amy Cours, of that city, fell in love with Mr. Arthur Smith,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Novel Wind Motor
As inventor in philsdelphia has been experimenting with wind motors of a peculiar type. As shown in the drawings, the motor consists of a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Electric Motor As a Substitute for the Brain
That the function of the human brain can in certain cases be fulfilled by mechanical devices has long been understood, and has led, among other things,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Bridge Subsides
Launceston, Sunday—Just before daylight on Saturday morning the new bridge spanning the Scamander river, on the east coast, subsided to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr. Griffith and the Main Roads
Mr Griffith, Minister for Works, on Tuesday explained the position in the above matter from the point of view. "What I say to the shires," he said,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Railway Fatality
In our last issue we reported the death of Mr. G. Whitley, late of Moss Vale, at Burwood. We have since gleaned the following…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Suicide on Railway Line
Mr. E. L. Maitland, S.M., held an inquest at Ashfield on Friday into the circumstances surrounding the death of George Whitley, whose…
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At the conference of shire delegates on Wednesday, Mr. R J, Higgins (obairman) draw attention to an article appearing in the " Sydney Morning…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Shire's Motor Lorry
The Wingecarribee shire council's motor lorry, which cost over£1ooo, was brought to Moss Vale at the latter end of last week, and stored…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Shire's Motor Lorry
The Wingecarribee shire council's motor lorry, which cost over £1000, was brought to Moss Vale recently, and stored away in the shire's premises…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Railway Strike
There are no signs of a settlement of the railway strike. Negotiations came to a full stop on Monday night. A mass meeting of the men, which…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Tramp Who Knew
It was a good square building, so the tramp—who hadn't tasted food for three days, strike, him pink, mum, if he had—thought be might…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mammoth Railway Engines
Orders have been received in Crewe railway works to build a large number of locomotives, which, when completed, will be the most powerful in the…
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