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Churches, 1926

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Books for Catholic Children. No Dearth of Good Reading

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 14 January 1926 · page 40

PARENTS seeking appropriate books for their children are often at a loss to know what books to select. They know how impressionable is the…

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From Sun-baked Western Plains Kiddies at Seaside a Noble Mission

Evening News · Thursday 14 January 1926 · page 15

HAVE YOU ever followed the sundown track over the run of the West, until it loses itself in the great beyond?…

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Looking Backwards Our Catholic Life of Long Ago. Rev. Fathers J. H. Morris and A. Hogan Ordained

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 14 January 1926 · page 16

Here is a paragraph from the "Freeman" of September 9, 1899, that will interest in a particular way the…

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Chinchilla's New Church. Blessed and Opened by Archbishop Duhig

The Catholic Press · Thursday 14 January 1926 · page 29

The blessing and opening of the new church at Chinchilla, erected on the site of the one destroyed by cyclone in February last, was performed by his Grace…

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Irish Soupers. Campaigning in America. the Operations of the Irish Church Missions

The Catholic Press · Thursday 14 January 1926 · page 10

A good many of us know that times are hard in that geographical entity sometimes called "the British Isles," but few had any idea that things had come to such a pass…

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Blue Mountain Churches. Masses and Devotions

The Catholic Press · Thursday 14 January 1926 · page 35

The following six Masses will be celebrated next Sunday, January 17, third Sunday, Katoomba, 7 and 10, Blackheath, 8; Mt. Victoria, 10; Leura, 8, with general…

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A Round of the Churches. "Something Different" at St. James'. No. 21.—By E.D.

Watchman · Thursday 14 January 1926 · page 2

It is a long while since I last visited St. James' Church in King-street, perhaps 10 years. Rev. Carr-Smith was then the rector. Almost everybody thought…

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The People's Petition. For the Preservation of the Protestant Character of the National Church

Watchman · Thursday 14 January 1926 · page 8

This announcement, in bold type, fills the front page of the "Protestant Alliance":—A DIRECT APPEAL FROM…

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Took Churchill's Name Policeman Stops Car London, Wednesday Night

The Sun · Thursday 14 January 1926 · page 1

Mr. Winston Churchill (Chancellor of the Exchequer), while motoring to Downing street, forgot the new traffic regulations and took a wrong…

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New Parish Hall Will Accommodate About 200

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Friday 15 January 1926 · page 7

The erection of the Anglican parish hall at Guildford has at last been completed. It will fill a long standing local need…

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Western Australia. Minister's Mission. Perth

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 15 January 1926 · page 10

The Minister for Works (Mr. A. McCallum) left for Melbourne last night on an important mission for the State. He said that the principal business was to secure as much as…

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Unsightly Footways Church Street North

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Friday 15 January 1926 · page 1

It is a pity that the Parramatta Council cannot see Its way to improve the Church street footpaths fronting the cemetery and that section between Dun[?]on and…

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Memorial Church Stocking the Stalls

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Friday 15 January 1926 · page 7

Members of the Guildford Congragational Memorial Church are busily engaged in arrangement entertainment to help stock the stalls at their forthcoming bazaar…

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Bridal Churches

Evening News · Friday 15 January 1926 · page 8

From Lionel Lin[?] beautiful series of drawing of Sydney's churches, the "Evening News" has prepared a…

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Methodist Men

The Methodist · Saturday 16 January 1926 · page 13

At the Power-House, 7th January. Hearty were the hand shakes and cheery the words of greeting as we re-assembled…

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Church Notes Clovelly a Parish New Church at Blackheath

The Labor Daily · Saturday 16 January 1926 · page 8

Archbishop Wright and Mrs. and Miss Wright left Sydney on Friday for the [?]ue Mountains, and will spend a week at Wentworth Falls…

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The Churches

Evening News · Saturday 16 January 1926 · page 8

The N.S.W. Congregational Union with be represented at the New Zealand Union Conference in March by Rev. T. Gordon Robertson, chairman of the N.S.W…

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Church Built With Farthings. 656,000 Collected in 18 Years

The World's News · Saturday 16 January 1926 · page 19

A farthing fund—started 18 years ago—has been principally responsible for providing Cricklewood, London, with a church, a mission room, and a vicarage…

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The Church at Home

The Methodist · Saturday 16 January 1926 · page 10

A deputation tour in the middle west of New South Wales towards the end of the year is an enjoyable experience. Portions of this area are over 3,000 feet above sea level and spring is late…

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The Churches. Church Missionary Society

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 16 January 1926 · page 11

An enthusiastic worker himself, and with a capacity for infecting others with enthusiasm, the Rev. R. J. Hewett, deputy general secretary of the New South Wales branch of the…

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