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The wars & local soldiers, 1893

23 stories in Southern Highlands's papers · page 1 of 2

The War Scare Again

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 4 February 1893 · page 5

In Europe the periodical occasioned by this cry, seems to increase in intensity each suceeding year, [?]d a general consensus of opinion prevails that the mighty strain caused by the…

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(Un)civil War at Hull

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 10 May 1893 · page 2

THE insane rage of unionists, so called, at Hull is leading to attempted crimes ofsuch a character as must greatly injure the cause of the bona fide working man…

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Could Women Be Soldiers

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 20 May 1893 · page 6

THE presumed inability of women to personally safeguard the Empire has been [?]rged against granting to them the franchise if the protection of the Empire devolves or…

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War Ships for Playthings

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 5 July 1893 · page 2

AN old lady was once heard declaiming against the danger of firearms thus"They shooting-sticks is dangerous things. If they have neither lock, stock, nor barrel…

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War Correspondents Experiences

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 19 August 1893 · page 2

MR. FREDERICK VILLIERS, the well-known artist, tells the following:—During the Russo-Turkish war Mr. Forbes and I, at last came up with the advancing Russian…

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War to the Knife

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 19 August 1893 · page 2

THE lovers had long tarried at the garden gate. The bulldog was becoming thoroughly aroused to the situation, and already there had fallen upon them with…

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Welcome Home

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 30 August 1893 · page 3

SERGEANT BLENCOWE, Corporal Seery, and Trooper Charker of the West Camden Cavalry Troop, returned from England on Monday, and alighted in…

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The Bould Soldier Boy

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 2 September 1893 · page 2

AUSTRALIA is always proud of the successes of her boys, and the fact that some of our lads have carried arms upon the tented (mimic) field of the old country,…

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Hearing From Jimmie. The Pathetic Story of a Soldier's Letter

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 2 September 1893 · page 7

The man on the cot to my right in the hospital had been wounded by a fragment of shell and, for the first three or four days, the surgeons said he had a…

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The Bould Soldier Boy

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 6 September 1893 · page 2

SIR,—The querulous writer of "Notes" in the Free Press has endeavoured to blacken the good reputation of "The Bould Soldier Boy," upon the testis…

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The Bould Soldier Boy

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 9 September 1893 · page 2

WE are sorry that our note on the above subject has created in the mind of a "Unit" of this community the feeling that we are "querulous." Our interest…

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Incapable in War

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 30 September 1893 · page 2

The Chinese Empire has over held aloof in gloomy pride from intercourse with other peoples of the world. Its disastrous war with England sixty years ago did not prebvent the…

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The Bould Soldier Boy

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 14 October 1893 · page 2

THE tournament in Sydney on Thursday and yesterday was deprived of much of its pleasure to the general public by the boisterous and unfavourable weather on…

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Big War Ships

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 1 November 1893 · page 2

THE admiralty of Great Britain will shortly construct three war ships of a new style which will surpass everything existing in the shape of destructive agencies in war,…

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The Deserter. a Poem Founded on Fact. a just and lively Representation of the Cruelty & Sufferings connected with the Punishment of Flogging in the British Army. I. The Recruit.—II. The Soldier's Return.—III. The Punishment Published in 18[?], Printed by W. Offord, Survey, England. Canto I. "The Recruit."

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 1 November 1893 · page 4

SUCH tears as none but mothers weep, And such a sigh, so long and deep, Seemed life and soul to sover: Who nature's language can mistake?…

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The Essayist. Europe's Twenty Million Soldiers

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 18 November 1893 · page 7

It is estimated by Major-General Tyrrell that whereas at the time of the Crimean War, the last European struggle in which this country was engaged, the aggregate strength…

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The Bould Soldier Boy

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 29 November 1893 · page 2

ON Saturday last a troop of our Bowral boys marched into town nearly forty strong from the butts. They presented so soldierly an appearance and…

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The Deserter. a Poem Ounded on Act. a just and lively Representation of the Cruelty & Sufferings connected with the Punishment of Flogging in the British Army. I. The Recruit.—II. The Soldier's Return.—III. The Punishment Published IN 1836. Printed by W Offord. Survey, England. Canto 3. "The Punishment."

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 2 December 1893 · page 4

AND now approached that dismal hour,— That scene of sanguinary power; Surely 'tis hell's own nurture: Rather it would be mercy's part…

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Alarming Dynamite Outrage. Explosion of a Bomb in the French Chamber. Eighty Persons Wounded

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 13 December 1893 · page 2

News has just reached London to the effect that an alarming dynamite outrage has been perpetrated in the French Chamber of Deputies…

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Dynamite Outrage. Explosion of a Bomb in the French Chamber. Slugs Scattered in All Directions. 63 Persons Wounded. London, Dec 10

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 13 December 1893 · page 2

NEWS has just reached London to the effect that an alarming dynamite outrage has been perpetrated in the French Chamber of Deputies…

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