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Churches, 1927

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The Great Tour Ready for the Road Educational Mission

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 12 March 1927 · page 9

Those who have seen, lingered over, and learned from the Department of Agriculture's displays at the Royal Show can picture its educational…

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Pride of Empire Troops Parade Shanghai in the Rain Guards' Discipline More Looting Inland Mission Robbed

The Sun · Saturday 12 March 1927 · page 1

Displaying to the full their incomparable discipline during a five-mile march in drizzling rain, the second battalion of the Coldstream Guards marched through cheering lines of Shanghai resident yesterday to their billets. There Was never a smile and they…

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On Church Top Blessing the Cross Unique Dedication Bathurst

Evening News · Saturday 12 March 1927 · page 1

WHAT is claimed to be a unique act of dedication was performed by Rev. Canon Wilton at the top of the massive first portion…

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Apparition in a Church. "Return" of St. Thomas a Becket

The World's News · Saturday 12 March 1927 · page 36

A strangely dramatic story of the "return," in spirit form, of St. Thomas a Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury under Henry II., is related by Archdeacon Lovett in the parish…

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The Churches. St. Michael's First Rector

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 12 March 1927 · page 10

The first clergyman of St. Michael's Church, Flinders-street, Surry Hills, the 70th anniversary of which will be celebrated to-morrow, was the late Rev. Canon Hulton Smyth…

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Sentimental Mission

The Sun · Sunday 13 March 1927 · page 1

Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, accompanied by his daughter Isabel, will leave for America on April 19 to visit an old American lady who entertained him and…

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Minister Hears Official News of Attack on Mission Station Melbourne

Sunday Times · Sunday 13 March 1927 · page 1

Advice that the mission boat McBride arrived at Darwin on March 1 with four aboriginals arrested in connected with the recent attack on the Methodist…

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Industry Mission Has to Study American Conditions in Trains Madison, Wisconsin

Sunday Times · Sunday 13 March 1927 · page 1

Members of the Australian Industry Mission, which is visiting America to study general industrial conditions, are finding the itinerary heavy, and Union representatives are disappointed that inspection of works is hurried…

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Prince of Wales' Feathers on Dundas Church

Sunday Times · Sunday 13 March 1927 · page 5

Who knows the story of the Prince of Wales' Feathers wrought in stone over the porch of the Methodist Church at Dundas…

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Sermon Causes a Big Sensation in Church Outspoken Canon Ball Which Became Drinking Bout Couples Disappear

Truth · Sunday 13 March 1927 · page 1

ARMIDALE, that delightful residential city of churches and schools, and at one time a claimant for Federal Capital honors, is in a state of considerable perturbation, particularly the younger set…

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Dancing. Methodist Disapproval. Auckland

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 14 March 1927 · page 12

The New Zealand Methodist Conference, with one or two dissentients, carried a resolution directing attention to the regulation of the Church against dancing, and to its moral…

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The Mission. American Industry. Radical Views. MADISON, March 11

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 14 March 1927 · page 11

The Commonwealth Industrial Mission, at a meeting to-day, questioned Professor James Commons, of the Faculty of Economics at the University of Wisconsin…

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Native Attack. On Mission Station. Four Aborigines Arrested. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 14 March 1927 · page 11

The Minister for Home and Territories (Sir William Glasgow) has. received advice from the Government Resident at Darwin that the mission boat McBride arrived at Darwin on…

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Industrial Mission Trade Schools Compulsory for Children Cheapness of Power Delegates Impressed Chicago

Evening News · Monday 14 March 1927 · page 1

THE Commonwealth Industrial Mission was met on its arrival at Chicago by the secretary to the Australian Commissioner in U.S.A., Mr…

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New Church at Campsie

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 14 March 1927 · page 5

Archbishop Kelly at Campsie yesterday afternoon laid the foundation stone of the new Roman Catholic Church of St. Mel. He also presided at a subsequent public meeting, those…

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New Church for Campsie

The Labor Daily · Monday 14 March 1927 · page 5

Archbishop Kelly yesterday laid the foundation-stone of the new St. Mel's Church, Campise. To the left of the photo. is Mr. Geo. Cann, Minster for Health, and to the right Mr. J. Cahill, M.L.A…

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AFTER 70 YEARS Church Anniversary "Job's Comforters"

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 14 March 1927 · page 7

St. Michael's Church, Flinders Street, is one of Sydney's oldest churches, and the commemoration yesterday of the 70th anniversary of the laying of the…

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New Church St. Mel's Campsie FOUNDATION - Stone Laid

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 14 March 1927 · page 12

Yesterday afternoon Archbishop Kelly laid the foundation-stone of the new Boman Catholic Church of St. Mel, in Duke Street, Campsie.. The…

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INDUSTRY. Australian Mission. Visit to Chicago. Chicago, March 13

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 15 March 1927 · page 11

The mission was met at Chicago by Mr. J. Dow, secretary to the Australian Commissioner. Representations were made for revision of the [?]ary to enable more time being…

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Church Union

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 15 March 1927 · page 12

The annual report of the New South Wales United Preachers' Association, presented at a meeting of that body last night, contained a reference to church union. It was pointed…

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